NEW YORK & GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Earth Networks, the owner of WeatherBug® products and services and operator of the largest weather observing and lightning network, announced the hiring of Caitlin Remby as East Coast sales director for mobile and digital advertising. In this role, Remby will be managing relationships with major advertisers and sponsors, spearheading new sales efforts, and actively overseeing the award-winning East Coast advertising sales team for the WeatherBug mobile and desktop applications and website.
Remby brings to her new position nearly 15 years of sales management experience with an emphasis on mobile, online and navigation-based advertising for top national and global consumer brands. Prior to joining the company, Remby was the East Coast head of sales at NAVTEQ Media Solutions, which was previously known as Nokia Interactive Advertising, in Boston. Earlier, Remby was the sales account director, southeast territory, for Univision Online in Miami. Prior to that, in Boston, she was a sales account manager at Yahoo!, where she worked with a variety of emerging and established online brands. Remby also held sales management and account executive positions at companies that include Newmediary, FairMarket, Inc., and Ziff Davis Publishing – PC Week. She is a graduate of Boston College.
“We are excited to be welcoming Caitlin Remby, a sales professional with a strong background in emerging mobile and digital platforms, to the WeatherBug advertising team,” said Vice President of Advertising Sales and Marketing Michael Lombardi. “Her enthusiasm and ability to drive large-scale, integrated opportunities will add to our growing list of top national advertisers on our mobile, desktop and online properties.”
As leading digital properties, the desktop, Web and mobile applications for WeatherBug are accessed each month by more than 40 million users, according to comScore and Nielsen Mobile. Consumers trust WeatherBug for live, local weather information, severe weather alerts, precise forecasts and live weather images.
About Earth Networks
Founded in 1993 as AWS Convergence Technologies, Earth Networks operates the largest weather observation and lightning networks in the world and is establishing a global environmental data network on an unprecedented scale. Earth Networks owns and operates the WeatherBug brand, which precisely monitors, organizes and distributes global weather information. The WeatherBug consumer brand (http://www.weatherbug.com) reaches millions as a trusted source for live, local weather information, while the WeatherBug professional brand (http://www.weatherbugprofessional.com) serves a variety of markets that include federal, state and local governments, education, agriculture, energy and utilities, sports and recreation, media and transportation. Each day, consumers and organizations, including the National Weather Service, turn to WeatherBug to plan daily activities, safeguard lives and improve business operations. Earth Networks is based in Germantown, Maryland and is online at www.earthnetworks.com.