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R. Michael Leo

R. Michael Leo

CEO & President

In his role as CEO and President of Operative, Mike has utilized his entrepreneurial drive and vision to spearhead corporate growth. With Mike at the helm, Operative has experienced revenue growth for the past six consecutive years and recruited some of advertising’s most recognizable talent. Mike’s leadership style and industry perspective is based on more than 17 years at the executive level at some of the most prestigious marketing and media companies in the digital world. He is consistently cited by interactive media and marketing industry publications such as BusinessWeek, DigiDay and iMedia Connection on trends, best practices and cutting-edge innovation in digital advertising. Mike is also a regular speaker at IAB, iMedia, AdMonsters, Venture Capital and DM2Pro conferences, where he lends his passion for the space and perspective on disruptive, bleeding-edge solutions for media companies and their partners.

Prior to Operative, Mike cofounded aQuantive (NASDAQ: AQNT), a digital marketing organization now owned by Microsoft that became one of the industry’s biggest success stories. He assembled the team that helped to grow aQuantive to one of the best and largest interactive agencies in the world.

Silicon Alley Insider ranked Mike as one of the top 100 most influential New Yorker’s in digital media for two consecutive years, and AlwaysOn and KPMG named Mike as one of the ten executives in the first annual Madison Avenue IT list.