Avi Wilensky, CEO

Avi Wilensky is the founder and CEO of Promediacorp. He graduated Rutgers University with a BA in Psychology & Economics and a Certification in eCommerce Management.

Avi’s speaking engagements have included:

• SMX East, NYC – Video Search Marketing Beyond YouTube, October 2009.
• SEOktoberfest, Munich – Expert’s Panel, September, 2009.
• SMX East, NYC – SEM for Small Businesses, October 2008.
• SphinnCon, Jerusalem, Israel – Pay-Per-Click Panel, January 2008.
• BarCampNYC2, NYC – Microsoft, How to Rank #1 on MSN Search in 3 Days or Less, October 2006.

Avi is a Contributing Blogger for the Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Watch. He is a course author at the SEMPO Institute, a founding member of the Internet Marketers of New York, a member of Search Party Animals, and BaldSEO.

Avi has been featured in USA Today and the New York Times.

Sheara Goldenthal, COO

Sheara is the backbone of Promediacorp and takes care of the day-to-day operations, including paid search management, accounting, and making sure Avi eats.

She is a Wordpress fanatic, SEO copywriting specialist (having written thousands of title tags and meta descriptions), and contributing blogger for the Search Engine Roundtable and ShimonSandler.com. If you need an in-depth SEO site audit conducted, Sheara’s your woman.

Sheara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Rutgers University, a New York State Real Estate License, and a web development certificate from NYU’s school of continuing education.

Michael Manning, Social Media Director

Michael is the Social Media Director at Promediacorp, bringing with him an extensive background in journalism, blogging, copywriting, and online content creation. His career as a journalist began in 2001 at NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Michael has also written and edited for Fodor’s Travel Publications, and has spent time editing communist propaganda for China Central Television in Beijing and making sun-dried tomatoes. His controversial posts as a blogger earned him the ire of the Chinese government, resulting in his Gmail account being hacked in 2009.

Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political Science from Rutgers University.

Sarper Kocabiyik, Senior Web Developer

Sarper is Promediacorp’s Senior Web Developer, with over nine years of experience coding in object-oriented programming languages. His strong technical background in Unix/Linux, SQL coding and database management is invaluable for Promediacorp’s development of Search Engine Marketing research and tracking tools.

Sarper was previously the CTO at StyleCaster.com and a senior web developer at Seed Gives Life, the interactive agency now known as Sub Rosa. He also worked for PEPSI and SOBE Energy Drinks. Sarper  holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and a certificate in E-commerce Development from Baruch College.