With a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications from SUNY Plattsburgh, Michele's passion for all things media can be traced even further back than her deep and enviable career suggests.
A former marathoner, keen traveler and aunt to 9 nieces/nephews, Michele started her professional life as a national TV buyer for agencies including MindShare and Spark Foundry (formerly Mediavest). In 2008, Michele moved to A&E Television Networks where her experience grew to include Ad Sales Partnerships and everything it involved. After almost 5 years in the TV space and hungry to continue learning all there was to know about the media industry, Michele directed her focus to Out of Home where she spent almost ten years learning everything there was to know at Captivate and JCDecaux.
It was during this time when she became truly passionate about media and the ways in which effective creative + intelligent planning could bring a brand's ambitions to life and engage audiences in unique ways.
Following a quick switch of gears to Amazon where she worked on the strategy of their 'Just Walk Out' initiative, Michele now joins Origin part time as Sales Advisor, DOOH. Speaking about the opportunity, Michele said "I am excited to be a part of Origin and work with the team. With the proven success they've already seen with their unique creative solutions in DOOH, I look forward to bringing them even further into the market, accelerating growth in the space and embracing their desire to 'enrage the status quo'."
Adding to this, Origin CEO Fred Godfrey said "For over three years we have seen steadily increasing demand for our creative capabilities in the DOOH space, designing fantastic experiences that are ideal for different environments. Until now though, we've never had the bandwidth or 'native' expertise to take it all the way. Michele changes all of that and for this reason I am grateful and excited to see where this side of the business goes!"
We welcome Michele in this part-time capacity and look forward to working with her as we continue to reshape and redefine the purpose and value that Origin's unique suite of creative solutions could bring to Digital Out Of Home advertising!
Origin is an award-winning Creative Technology company whose zero code CTV ad formats enable marketers to deliver dynamic and responsive ad experiences in the living room and outside the home.
With unparalleled creative capabilities and proprietary ad serving technology, Origin’s off-the-shelf and custom solutions are trusted by agencies, brands, creative teams and programmatic platforms who want the ads they run to get the attention, engagement and outcomes they deserve.
Founded by media veterans Stephen Strong and Fred Godfrey, Origin is driven by the belief that to win a viewer today, we must look beyond how it was done yesterday.
Learn more at: originmedia.tv