Surefire Social Ramps Up Executive Team in Advance of New Software Launch
Herndon,VA (PRWEB) April 01, 2015 -- Washington DC/Northern Virginia based Surefire Social has added Shashi Bellamkonda to the Surefire Social executive team as Chief Marketing Officer. The addition of Bellamkonda adds marketing muscle to the experienced senior management team as it prepares to launch a major new SaaS technology, Surepulse, later this year.
“I am delighted to welcome Shashi Bellamkonda to the Surefire Social management team. His deep experience and vision in the local marketing space gives us the marketing leadership we need as we prepare to launch Surepulse, our new SaaS service” said Chris Marentis, Founder and CEO of Surefire Social. “We have an excellent team in place to manage Surefire Social’s explosive growth while still providing innovative results driven marketing solutions.”
Shashi Bellamkonda was until recently the VP of Digital Marketing at Bozzuto and spent over a decade with Network Solutions working on small business online marketing tools. Bellamkonda is an adjunct faculty at Georgetown University and has several awards and honors including being named one of Washingtonian’s Top 100 Tech Titans from 2009 through 2011, Washington Business Journal Minority Business Leader Award and being included as one of the 100 Small Business Influencer Champions in 2011 and 2012, by Small Business Trends.
“I love small business and while mentoring small business owners, I had to painfully tell them to use a myriad of tools to manage their online marketing. Over the past 3 years, Chris Marentis and the Surefire Social team have recognized the unique needs of small business owners and franchisees and built a marketing platform that gives business owners immediate insight into all their marketing activities from a single dashboard” said Shashi Bellamkonda. “I met Chris when he started working with the idea of solving small business owners marketing needs and watched the success of Surefire Social. I am very excited to join the Surefire Social team.”
Surefire Social clients include several large national brands that depend on networks of dealers/franchisees to drive revenue.
Bellamkonda holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Public Administration, Sociology and Economics from Osmania University (India); a Diploma in Business Management from Indira Gandhi Open University (India); a degree in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology (India); and has completed the Essentials of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. Bellamkonda also contributes to publications including SmallBiztrends, Smarthustle.com, TechCocktail.com and the Washington Business Journal, among others.
About Surefire Social™
Surefire Social provides turnkey integrated marketing SaaS technologies and services focused on local marketing for national Brands and Franchises. Through its new platform, Surepulse, Surefire Social delivers real time data, reputation monitoring and near real-time content publishing across the entire digital spectrum including web, mobile, social and local directories.
Large brands with local dealers and affiliates have benefited from Surefire Social’s integrated marketing SaaS technologies and services. For small and medium businesses the Surefire Social platform, Surepulse provides real time data, reputation monitoring and publishing across web, mobile, social and directories. Excellent customer service and creating a results oriented experience has helped Surefire Social serve and successfully retain customers.
Alex Reichenbach, Surefire Social, http://www.surefiresocial.com/, +1 7037886855, [email protected]
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