Covario Naturally Optimizes Executive Team with Search Expert Mike Gullaksen
Covario Naturally Optimizes Executive Team with Search Expert Mike Gullaksen
Award-winning Search Industry Veteran Brings Decade of Global Advertising Experience
SAN DIEGO — April 23, 2009 — Covario, Inc., the leader in interactive marketing analytics, today announced that Mike Gullaksen, search marketing industry veteran and SEO expert, has joined the company as vice president of search strategies. In this newly-created position, Gullaksen will lead the company’s efforts to expand its technology and services offerings for natural search engine optimization (SEO) and Covario’s Search Synergy Score (S3) by working with Covario’s more than sixty Fortune 500 and Internet 1000 customers to help identify areas that can drive additional value and results.
“I’m really excited to join Covario as they continue to lead the industry in providing large advertisers with scalable, analytics- and business-driven solutions for optimizing digital advertising programs. This is especially critical now, when marketers are laser-focused on driving better results in a more efficient manner,” explained Mike Gullaksen, vice president of search strategies at Covario. “Covario’s software allows the SEO team to focus their efforts on strategy, insights and driving results instead of spending countless hours with spreadsheets or making Web site changes that have little or no impact.”
Gullaksen comes to Covario with a decade of experience designing search engine marketing programs for large advertisers. For the last nine years, Gullaksen worked at iCrossing, where he held several executive-level positions. As iCrossing’s senior vice president of search, Gullaksen worked with a variety of Fortune 500 advertisers including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, and Williams-Sonoma.
“Mike Gullaksen is a seasoned industry professional with a deep understanding of search from both business marketing and technical perspectives. He has a tremendous track record of pioneering a comprehensive approach to search engine optimization and search marketing in general. Mike will be invaluable to the company and our customers as we work together to extend and expand the adoption of Covario’s solutions,” explained Russ Mann, Chief Executive Officer of Covario, Inc.
About Covario, Inc.
Covario, Inc. is the leader in Interactive Marketing Analytics (IMA) software. The Covario portfolio provides global organizations with robust interactive and search marketing analytics solutions for display advertising, paid search advertising and organic search engine optimization across the enterprise and throughout the channel. Covario enables complex and distributed organizations to control brand integrity, ensure budget transparency and deliver quantifiable results across business units, distribution channels and languages. Headquartered in San Diego, Covario’s growing customer list include some of the world’s best known brands in high tech manufacturing, financial services, electronics, media and publishing and consumer packaged goods.