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Rocket Fuel Welcomes Rhonda Shantz as Vice President of Marketing(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/02/14 -- Rocket Fuel Inc., (NASDAQ: FUEL), a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced Ms. Rhonda Shantz has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. With over 20 years of corporate and agency experience, she will lead the marketing department at Rocket Fuel. Rhonda was most recently Vice President of Global Marketing for Symantec, where she galvanized a strategy around cybercrime that reinvented the Norton brand, grew market share, and made an emotional imprint on consumers. Her marketing expertise contributed to Norton being recognized by Forbes/Landor as a breakaway brand, and also garnered additional recognition with over 100 industry awards for the period of 2008-2013, including an Effie, Addy, Webby, Hugo Television, Event Marketer, Communication Arts, and many others. Rhonda is recognized as an innovator in marketing, driving marketing initiatives like the creation of "Cybergeddon," a nine-part series and original feature film with CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, which was distributed on Yahoo! in over 20 countries and reached over 30 million viewers in two months. "We are enthusiastic about having an innovative enterprise marketing professional like Rhonda join our executive staff," said Eric Porres, CMO of Rocket Fuel. "She brings us her large-cap global-marketing operations expertise, she is an advocate of the customer perspective, and she has the creativity and story-telling expertise to expand our leadership growth in this category. Our extraordinary growth has to be supported by our ability to scale our marketing globally and to expand our customer conversations, so I'm excited to have her here to drive those initiatives and more." "Rocket Fuel is about the science of marketing, which is the critical requirement being demanded by CMOs today to grow share and increase loyalty," said Rhonda. "I am thrilled to join this thriving organization and growth industry to bring Big Data truth to marketing and drive even stronger ROI." Previous to Symantec, Rhonda served as Partner and Technology Practice Lead at Porter Novelli, an Omnicom company for over 10 years. During that time she steered strategy for hundreds of companies -- from start-ups like Rio, Geoworks, and AltaVista, to the likes of McAfee, PeopleSoft, Wells Fargo, HP, and Qualcomm. Before Porter Novelli, Rhonda led go-to-market programs for HP. She started her career at Intel. About Rocket Fuel:Rocket Fuel delivers a leading programmatic media-buying platform at Big Data scale that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. Rocket Fuel powers digital advertising and marketing programs globally for customers in North America, Europe, and Japan. Customers trust Rocket Fuel's Advertising That Learns® platform to achieve brand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries from luxury cars to groceries to retail. Rocket Fuel currently operates in over 20 offices worldwide and trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FUEL." For more information, please visit http://www.rocketfuel.com or call 1-888-717-8873. Image Available: http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=2630205 PR Contact: Heather Sliwinski [email protected] 415-442-4000 Source: Rocket Fuel Inc. |