Mediafly’s Leadership Team
Having a best-in-class team of specialists and thought leaders has enabled Mediafly to give customers the best possible Sales Enablement platform, experience and knowledge.
Who are the people leading Mediafly?
Carson Conant
CEO & Founder
Carson founded Mediafly in 2006 and has led the growth of its enterprise solutions that is being used by some of the world’s largest and most admired companies. Under his leadership, Mediafly has been ranked four consecutive times in Inc. Magazine’s “5000 Fastest Growing Companies” annual edition. When Carson is not traveling to be with customers, prospects, and shareholders, he spends time with his beautiful wife and two rambunctious children in Chicago.
John Evarts
President & COO
As President & COO of Mediafly, John's had the opportunity to provide strategic, financial, and operational leadership since joining in March 2010. Over the last ten years Mediafly has earned awards from Crain's, Forrester, G2, Gartner, Inc. and SiriusDecisions including being recognized as a "Top Sales Enablement Provider", as one of "America's Fastest Growing Companies" and as one of "America's Best Workplaces". John is an MBA graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and enjoys public speaking with a focus on topics such as entrepreneurship, start-up M&A and fundraising. Outside of the office, John is an avid Chicago Cubs fan and is always looking forward to taking the next trip with his wife and two amazing kiddos.
Keith Parrish
CFO
Keith Parrish is the CFO at Mediafly. Keith joined the Mediafly team through Mediafly’s 2019 acquisition of iPresent, a UK-based sales enablement provider at which Keith was CEO. As a UK qualified Chartered Accountant, he has primary responsibility for all aspects of the financial management of the business including managing Mediafly’s global finance team. When out of the office, Keith is an active participant in a number of sports but is usually found out on his bike.
Jason Shah
CTO
Jason leads the product management and engineering teams at Mediafly. He is responsible for owning product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring customer needs are met by providing the best solution. Jason oversees and drives complex partner integrations with companies such as Salesforce and SAP. Jason is an avid bike commuter (including -20°F Chicago winter days) but hasn’t convinced his wife or twins to join him.
Marc Fields
Chief Sales Officer
Marc oversees all of Mediafly’s sales efforts, working closely with the marketing and customer success teams to ensure continuous growth. Previously Marc ran sales and customer success teams at fast growing enterprise software companies ranging from Infrastructure to Martech. Marc is an MBA graduate of the New York University Stern School of Business and enjoys getting out in nature as much as possible.
Isabelle Papoulias
CMO
Isabelle oversees all of Mediafly’s marketing efforts, working closely with the sales and business development teams to ensure continuous growth. She first joined Mediafly as a sales director, before quickly transitioning to build Mediafly’s marketing engine from the ground up. Prior to Mediafly, Isabelle started her career in quantitative research. From there, she spent the majority of her 20+ year career working for ad and media agencies in global account management roles for Fortune 500 brands across industries like tech, finance, retail and CPG. Isabelle is also a dance instructor, teaching locally in Chicago and across the US. She calls it her “professional hobby".
Jodie Jansen
Chief Customer Officer
As Chief Customer Officer, Jodie dedicates her focus to addressing all customer-facing needs post-sale to ensure customer delight, retention and growth. She is responsible for Mediafly's Implementation and Onboarding, Customer Success and Technical Support teams. She is passionate about building relationships across various levels of the customer organizations to understand their evolving needs and how Mediafly will help them grow through their sales enablement journey. Outside of work Jodie loves outdoor activities in her native Minnesota, and hanging out with her husband and 3 amazing children.
James Davison
Chief Product Officer
James Davison is an experienced product leader with nearly 20 years of experience bringing products from concept to launch, then from launch to scale while highly engaged in the GTM process. Designing industry leading B2B enterprise products and leading product teams at IBM, SailPoint (Pre-IPO), Olono (founder to acquisition) and InsightSquared (Acquired), he’s now focused on creating intelligent tools to improved predictability and execution for revenue teams as CPO of Mediafly. James holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley while a member of the varsity swim team, and an MBA from the University of Arizona while a coach of the club triathlon team.
Dustin Zweck
VP of Sales
Dustin joined Mediafly in 2015 to lead business development efforts after success at CEB, Belly and Liberty Mutual. As VP of Sales, Dustin leads Mediafly’s new business sales team. Dustin enjoys spending time with his wife, two beagles and being on the golf course!
Todd Abbott
EVP, InsightSquared
Todd Abbot joined Mediafly through the acquisition of InsightSquared in January of 2022, where he was the CEO. At InsightSquared, Abbot led the successful acquisition of Olono and the corresponding transformation of the company into the revenue intelligence market.
Abbott is a seasoned global sales and marketing executive having held senior positions at several leading technology firms. He learned the techniques of scale while a member of the sales leadership team at Cisco Systems from 1994 through 2002, while also living and working overseas for 6 years in Asia and Europe. Following Cisco, he led the global sales and marketing teams at Symbol (acquired by Motorola) Seagate, Avaya and Mitel. He has led integration teams with companies that have made acquisitions and also been part of executive teams that have successfully sold business (Mitel and InsightSquared).
Abbott is a passionate industry leader and expert on leveraging data and analytics to the revenue functions of B2B companies.
Nathan Jackson
EVP of Presentify
Nathan is EVP Presentify. Nathan was the founder and Managing Director of UK-based visual communication specialists Presentify Ltd, and joined the team through Mediafly’s 2020 acquisition of the business. A seasoned and successful sales and business development leader, he’s worked with forward thinking companies around the world to apply story or narrative context to clearly articulate content in a visually supportive manner. Through his efforts, he's helped clients to ‘tell their story’ in a compelling way and sales teams to sell more.. With a career in sales and business development in excess of 30 years, Nathan has held senior and leadership roles with companies including Bottomline Technologies, CyberSource (a VISA company), and J.P. Morgan, as well as numerous advisory and consulting engagements. Away from the office, Nathan enjoys spending time outdoors with his family and Airedale Terrier, Rusty.
Tony Kavadas
EVP of Global Alliances
Tony leads and manages Mediafly’s Global Alliances team, working to expand business and enhance relationships through partnerships. Joining the company in 2016, Tony is responsible for creating a strategic vision to propel Mediafly’s partnerships forward on a global basis. He leads and manages Mediafly’s global expansion and team in EMEA. Tony is a driver for Mediafly managing change while making decisions to support market conditions.
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