MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA Ant's Eye View, a Seattle-based social media strategy development and consulting firm, today announced the promotion of Todd Shimizu to Senior Vice President and Managing Director of its Mountain View office. Shimizu joined the firm in March 2011.
As Managing Director, Shimizu is responsible for the strategic direction of the Silicon Valley office including business development and client delivery. In his expanded role, he will apply the firm's expertise in enterprise-wide business transformation and focus on customer experience and agile marketing practices to help clients achieve their business objectives.
"In the past year, Todd has been a driving force in providing sound strategic counsel and commitment to excellence in client service, said Dustin Johnson, senior vice president. "His experience, leadership and growth orientation are well suited to broadening our capabilities and strengthening our firm's position in the Valley."
In addition to his office management role, he will remain actively involved in many of the Silicon Valley office's keystone clients. Alongside vice president Christopher Carfi, Shimizu will build Ant's Eye View's portfolio of clients and ultimately oversee client satisfaction and growth.
"I couldn't be more excited by the opportunity we have to help our clients navigate the journey to engaged social business," said Shimizu. "It's both an honor and privilege to lead a team with such deep practitioner heritage and with such diverse talents."
Shimizu spent ten years at Juniper Networks where he served as the Director of Developer Relations & Engineering among other roles. There, he created the first Junos Space developer program and guided early adopters through their development experiences. In addition, Todd led strategy for Juniper's J-Net and social media properties as Director of Online Communities, launching the successful Junos Central and Junos Connect programs, tripling Junos technical certifications in 2009, and earning a Forrester Groundswell Award finalist nomination for his team's efforts. Todd also served as President and Chairman for the IPsphere Forum, an international networking consortium.
Tammy Coleman and Patrik Wijkstrom Join Growing Silicon Valley Office
Rounding out the firm's recent practitioner hires include Tammy Coleman and Patrik Wijkstrom, formerly of Juniper Networks. Coleman brings extensive global integrated marketing experience holding past responsibilities for strategy, planning and execution of product and solutions launches and marketing campaigns. Wijkstrom was responsible for establishing a vibrant user community across Juniper's website properties, driving the successful rollout and re-design of Juniper's technical communities and developing social media marketing programs that tripled user community participation. Both Coleman and Wijkstrom will serve as Directors of Social Business Strategy.
To learn more about Ant's Eye View, visit our blog.
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About Ant's Eye View Silicon Valley
The Ant's Eye View Silicon Valley office services leading California-based technology, business-to-consumer and business-to-business enterprises including Cisco, Google, SAP, Adobe and the Capital Group.
About Ant's Eye View
Founded in 2009, Ant's Eye View is a leading social media strategy development and consulting firm that helps guide mid to large-size companies through the process of transforming customer experience and brand engagement by activating and embedding customer voice into all aspects of a company's social business. Since then, the firm's client roster has grown to include Google, Microsoft, Intuit, Cisco, P&G, Jack-in-the-Box, Wells Fargo, AT&T and Nordstrom. Ant's Eye View currently has offices in Austin, Seattle, and Silicon Valley. More information can be found at http://www.antseyeview.com.
Contact:
Joann Jen, Ant's Eye View
joann@antseyeview.com
As Managing Director, Shimizu is responsible for the strategic direction of the Silicon Valley office including business development and client delivery. In his expanded role, he will apply the firm's expertise in enterprise-wide business transformation and focus on customer experience and agile marketing practices to help clients achieve their business objectives.
"In the past year, Todd has been a driving force in providing sound strategic counsel and commitment to excellence in client service, said Dustin Johnson, senior vice president. "His experience, leadership and growth orientation are well suited to broadening our capabilities and strengthening our firm's position in the Valley."
In addition to his office management role, he will remain actively involved in many of the Silicon Valley office's keystone clients. Alongside vice president Christopher Carfi, Shimizu will build Ant's Eye View's portfolio of clients and ultimately oversee client satisfaction and growth.
"I couldn't be more excited by the opportunity we have to help our clients navigate the journey to engaged social business," said Shimizu. "It's both an honor and privilege to lead a team with such deep practitioner heritage and with such diverse talents."
Shimizu spent ten years at Juniper Networks where he served as the Director of Developer Relations & Engineering among other roles. There, he created the first Junos Space developer program and guided early adopters through their development experiences. In addition, Todd led strategy for Juniper's J-Net and social media properties as Director of Online Communities, launching the successful Junos Central and Junos Connect programs, tripling Junos technical certifications in 2009, and earning a Forrester Groundswell Award finalist nomination for his team's efforts. Todd also served as President and Chairman for the IPsphere Forum, an international networking consortium.
Tammy Coleman and Patrik Wijkstrom Join Growing Silicon Valley Office
Rounding out the firm's recent practitioner hires include Tammy Coleman and Patrik Wijkstrom, formerly of Juniper Networks. Coleman brings extensive global integrated marketing experience holding past responsibilities for strategy, planning and execution of product and solutions launches and marketing campaigns. Wijkstrom was responsible for establishing a vibrant user community across Juniper's website properties, driving the successful rollout and re-design of Juniper's technical communities and developing social media marketing programs that tripled user community participation. Both Coleman and Wijkstrom will serve as Directors of Social Business Strategy.
To learn more about Ant's Eye View, visit our blog.
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About Ant's Eye View Silicon Valley
The Ant's Eye View Silicon Valley office services leading California-based technology, business-to-consumer and business-to-business enterprises including Cisco, Google, SAP, Adobe and the Capital Group.
About Ant's Eye View
Founded in 2009, Ant's Eye View is a leading social media strategy development and consulting firm that helps guide mid to large-size companies through the process of transforming customer experience and brand engagement by activating and embedding customer voice into all aspects of a company's social business. Since then, the firm's client roster has grown to include Google, Microsoft, Intuit, Cisco, P&G, Jack-in-the-Box, Wells Fargo, AT&T and Nordstrom. Ant's Eye View currently has offices in Austin, Seattle, and Silicon Valley. More information can be found at http://www.antseyeview.com.
Contact:
Joann Jen, Ant's Eye View
joann@antseyeview.com