Justin Ehly was previously the Sales Director for Bebo at Aol. Ventures. Bebo is the #3 Social Network in the US a hot Social Network in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Bebo was acquired by AOL in May 2008 for a whopping $850 million and was recently valued at $1.8 billion by TechCrunch.

Prior to joing Bebo, Justin served as Director, Media Sales at Userplane, another Aol. Ventures company that builds a suite of tools for social engagement, such as Webchat, Webmessenger and Media Player and distributes those tools to over 280,000 online communities, including Myspace (Forums) and Facebook (Facebook Chat). Userplane subsidizes the cost of licensing its products through the sales of display, text and video ads and in some cases has affinity deals to rep additional 3rd party site inventory, organically creating a Social Advertising Network.

Justin Ehly’s experience spans various media, including radio, cable television, satellite radio, online video and social media. He is a self-motivated person that spent the last 4-years working in a entrepreneurial role for start-ups, building their roster of brand advertisers through direct client and agency relationships. Justin is well versed in West Coast advertising strategies and has allies within most of the major studios and automotive accounts. His latest accomplishments include closing deals with HP through Zenith Optimedia for the HP Back-to-School campaign featuring Shaun White and with Chuck E Cheese through Apollo Interactive to help increase the client’s Chuck E Club membership registrations.

As a business person, Justin is proficient with comScore, SalesForce, AdData, SAP, cloud computing (i.e. SalesForce and Google Docs) and client computing (i.e. Microsoft Office). Justin is building an online resource for media sales people at www.gumptio.us and is an active Social Media Expert. Justin’s article, “What Do Casual Games and Pharmaceuticals Have In Common?” was published in the January 22, 2008 edition of MediaPost’s Video Insider.