Patrick Albano
Executive Director of Social, Mobile and Innovation Sales, Yahoo!
Patrick Albano has led sales and marketing for some of the world’s largest and most innovative media companies. He is currently Executive Director of Social, Mobile and Innovation Sales at Yahoo!, leading a team responsible for working with brands and marketers to deliver solutions across Yahoo!'s most innovative and first-to-market products.
He was previously Vice President of Global Sales at Citizen Sports, a social sports start-up focused on Facebook and Smart Phone applications, acquired by Yahoo! in April 2010. While at Citizen Sports, his team helped define the social marketing landscape, selling some of the first large scale, sharable, brand integrations within Facebook and the iPhone platforms.
Prior to Citizen Sports, Patrick was the National Director of Digital Sales at Sports Illustrated, focusing their sales team on digital revenue growth leveraging SI's Internet, mobile, social, VOD and emerging platforms. Under his leadership, the sales team was ranked the #1 Sales organization in the Online News & Sports category by clients and agencies in the Jack Myers annual survey of Internet Professionals.
An industry veteran since the 90s, he has also held digital sales leadership positions with About.com, InfoUSA.com, and Medsite.com.
Patrick is a native New Yorker who graduated from the University at Albany with a degree in English and is a passionate guitarist, songwriter and singer.
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