Kathy Leake has 18 years of advertising experience with 13 years in interactive and 5 years in traditional advertising. She was most recently Global Vice President of Business Development at Agency.com and was responsible for generating 30-35% of the company’s top-line revenue—driving revenue to offices globally: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Milan. Under her leadership, the sales team brought in multiple top tier clients and consistently exceeded their sales targets. Clients included: Del Monte, CNN, Maidenform, Energizer, Ask.com, Food Network, Choice Hotels, Marriott, Barclays, Heineken and Nestle.

Prior to Agency.com, Kathy worked at Red Sky Interactive in San Francisco running business development and marketing. She also worked at one of the industry’s first online site representation firms, WebRep. While at WebRep, Kathy headed a division that worked to invent new models of online advertising, growth strategies, integrated online advertising opportunities and provided strategic direction to web site clients on commercial viability.

Kathy started her career in traditional advertising at DDB Needham in media planning for the Entertainment Group and was responsible for budgets of $120 million a year. She also worked at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in the Czech Republic.

Kathy holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Southern California.