Industry-Leading Veteran, Trevor Thomas, Joins MediaTrust as Chief Revenue Officer

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MediaTrust, a leading digital performance marketing firm based in New York and Los Angeles, has named SBC veteran, Trevor Thomas, to the new position of Chief Revenue Officer. In addition to overseeing advertiser and publisher sales, Thomas’s main responsibilities will include developing and managing the revenue strategy of MTPX. He will be based in MediaTrust’s Los Angeles office.

“The PerformanceExchange’s growth rate and ROI metrics have increased much faster than we had projected”

“The PerformanceExchange’s growth rate and ROI metrics have increased much faster than we had projected,” said Peter Bordes, CEO of MediaTrust. “With so much potential, we knew it was crucial to build a world class sales organization that would enable us to scale as we add new publisher & advertising channels. Trevor is a seasoned leader and possesses the knowledge, experience, and skill set necessary to drive the PerformanceExchange to the next level as the leading ad exchange for direct response marketing.”

Before joining MediaTrust, Thomas worked at Tree.com as the Vice President and General Manager, Education Vertical. During his time at Tree.com, Thomas undertook the “for profit” education industry during its most trying time and helped shift Tree.com from a declining business into a profitable enterprise. By launching a new lead generation business for Tree.com, Thomas helped improve margins by over half a million dollars a month and drove millions of dollars in new business to the company.

Prior to Tree.com, Thomas was Senior Vice President of Sales and Affiliate Management at Hydra. While at Hydra, Thomas led the advertising and publisher sales efforts, all while helping Hydra significantly scale its operations and maintain the position as one of the nation’s largest and most reputable ad networks. Before Hydra, Thomas spent 3 years at Experian Interactive Media as Senior Vice President of Sales and over 15 years at SBC as Vice President of Global Sales Operations. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration from Florida State University.

“MediaTrust has something very special going on, something you don’t see too often,” said Thomas. “The success of the PerformanceExchange, despite its early stages, proves that we have this huge opportunity; simply huge. The MTPX’s real-time capabilities and transparent reporting are changing the industry, and it’s an honor to be a part of it. We’re doing big things, we’re having fun, we’re building a great team, and we’re paving the future of performance marketing; all in day’s work.”

Combining the payment model of a bid-based CPC ad exchange with results-based performance metrics, MTPX allows conversion-focused advertisers to extend their customer acquisition efforts beyond SEM and achieve optimal ROI. Advertisers are able to expand their reach to transparent high quality traffic channels, in real-time, via MediaTrust’s proprietary CPC bid exchange that consolidates the management of multiple channels into one easy-to-use ad platform.

Starting first with email, MTPX delivers targeted ads that are dynamically served to qualified customers who have opted-in to receive similar offers. Currently under development, MTPX’s next generation content channel is soon to come. For advertisers and publishers interested in joining MTPX, please contact MediaTrust's advertiser and publisher partnership teams at sales@mediatrust.com.

About MediaTrust

MediaTrust makes pay-for-results online advertising easier and more cost-effective. MediaTrust offers an innovative online technology platform, supported by best-in-class service, and access to the best lead gen and direct response advertisers and quality affiliate publishers in the performance marketing industry. MediaTrust enables its partners to easily create and deploy pay-for-performance marketing campaigns that deliver clicks, leads and sales.

For the second consecutive year, MediaTrust has been named to Inc500s Fastest-Growing Companies list, by Inc. Magazine, for 2009 and 2010. Founded in 2004, MediaTrust is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York City.

For more information on MediaTrust's PerformanceExchange, please visit: www.mediatrust.com, or follow the company blog: blog.mediatrust.com. MediaTrust news and updates can also be found on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/mediatrust) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/mediatrust).