Ignite Media

AOL Ignite Media has 50 total people on the Team.

Over $50MM

Gary has grown revenue 50% year over Yearand was selected as a Member of AOL's 
President's Club

Successfully managed an entire Team, while hitting individual and team numbers 
in excess of 150%

Gary also helped developed a training program for AOL Sales that is used 
company wide.

Handling Direct Response Clients in an ever changing, extremely measureable 
medium.

How to adapt to change, and manage accordingly

How to manage diversity and get the most from it

Gary's ability to manage a diverse team of sellers in a dynamic environment has 
helped lead to his success at AOL. While other Managers around him flounder 
with the inevitable change in the online world, Gary's uncanny ability to adapt 
and redirect resources in the right direction is rare. 

Without his leadership, the Ignite team at AOL would not, could not, have grown 
at the rate it did. His keen sense of developing and managing relationships, in 
our ever changing online universe, is unrivaled.

Gary Sherwood works in the Dulles VA - based office of AOL Media Networks; a  
company who's advertising revenues are up an incredible 40% (year over year) as 
more and more traditional advertisers begin to shift their dollars online. Gary 
joined AOL in 2003 and has consistently been an esteemed contributor to the 
organization, overseeing one of its most successful sales teams whose varied 
client roster includes both instantly recognizable brands like Publishers 
Clearing House, Jenny Craig, GEICO, Walt Disney World, and Red Bull to a long 
list of travel partners, financial insitutions, and advertising agencies. At 
AOL, Gary has been both a three time Circle of Excellence Winner (2003-2005) 
and President's Club inductee (2006). Prior to his time at AOL, Gary spent over 
a decade in traditional marketing working on both sides of the agency/client 
relationship.