Chris Dessi - Vice President zanox, Inc

The third week at Zanox is coming to a close, and things are just starting to heat up! Week One: Rani Nagpal VP (formerly of Gratis, and Meetmoi) and I headed to Berlin for training. What a phenomenal, inspiring and bright group of people we encountered! The teams from Zanox UK, Zanox Spain, Zanox Amsterdam, Zanox France, Zanox Italy, and of course Zanox Berlin were there in full force. Then the following week Rani and I headed to Chicago for a few days, now back to the office in New York. Currently we're located on 42nd and 5th at the Axel Springer offices (Our parent company). We have a great view of the empire state building. This has proven to be the perfect setting to brainstorm our 2008 strategy. We are all excited about the upcoming Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, and we're ready to show the performance based online marketing world that we're here to stay, and nobody can compete with our international reach, boutique customer service and industry know-how.

Looking forward to a break-out 2008!!

zanox at a glance

Who we are
zanox is the market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce. We offer a global solution for efficient marketing products and services on the Internet. In addition to affiliate marketing and search engine marketing, zanox’s online marketing services include e-mail marketing, online shopping, and customer loyalty programs. zanox was founded in 2000 by the directors, Thomas Hessler, Heiko Rauch, and Jens Hewald. Today zanox has more than 300 employees.
It operates in an extraordinarily dynamic, future-oriented market and enjoys above-average growth.
zanox joined the Axel Springer and PubliGroupe in 2007. Axel Springer is Germany´s biggest newspaper publishing house and third-largest magazine publisher. PubliGroupe is an internationally active marketer and service provider for cross-media commercial communication.
Our customers
More than 2,000 prestigious international companies across various industries from telecoms to travel and retail to finance, including Allianz, Amazon, Axa, Citibank, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, o2, Vodafone, Orange, DADAmobile, Celldorado, Expedia, Jamster, Lycos, Procter & Gamble, Sixt, Staples, Neckermann, La Redoute and many more employ zanox's strategic distribution channels. zanox currently works with more than one million sales partners in over 190 countries worldwide and offers local support in over 30 countries.
Our vision
We will create the ultimate global alliance to monetise the Internet

Starting on January 7th I begin an exciting journey as the VP of Ad Sales at the only multinational ad network Zanox, Inc.

I loved working with the team at AzoogleAds, and I look forward to this next challenge for my career. Zanox has offices in 14 countries, and generate leads for advertisers in over 30 countries! This is sure to be an exciting new year!

Another Ad:Tech in New York has come and gone (at the speed of light, as usual). It's Friday morning, and I'm still feeling the effects of a crazy few days, but I have to admit it...I LOVE this show. There's really nothing better than getting out there and selling. I eat it up. I love meeting new people at Ad:Tech, seeing familiar faces, and course I get a kick out of the sheer volume of people in attendance. This year was unprecedented. The numbers vary, but suffice to say...there were a LOT of people packing into that New York Hilton. I joked with a few colleagues that the families that were in town on vacation must have been horrified to see all of the meetings being conducted in the lounge, lobby, restaurants, and surrounding establishments. It got to be so crowded that I even took meetings standing in the lobby. Two of those meeting were with large partners (it's a good thing that I can also call them friends), and we all had a good laugh at it. "welcome to my office, please stand here" :-)

AzoogleAds generated sufficient buzz at the booth as we continue to grow and gain market share. We poised to have another break out year in 2008!

Some of the best fun happened after the show when an colleague and I shot our video for our iMedia Spot (keep an eye out for it)! I'm certainly not an actor, but Audrey Breheney one of our Sr. Affiliate Managers is an Actress as well as an industry pro, so she added a sense of professionalism that this cheesy sales guy just couldn't muster! It was a ton of fun, and we can't wait to get it out there!

Looking forward to hearing from everyone about how they felt Ad:tech was for them.

All the best!
Chris Dessi
Director of National Ad Sales