I’m excited to announce the newest member of the Buddy Media team, Jeff Ragovin. Jeff will be heading all business development and sales for Buddy Media. He’ll be working out of our New York office (Analisa Rudy tells me that she has no room for “a loud sales guy” in the Madison office).

Jeff comes to Buddy Media from Acronym Media, a leading search engine marketing firm in NYC . At Acronym, Jeff grew the agency by locking down blue chip clients like Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Cablevision, Humana, ADP, Tommy Hilfiger and Siemens.

Jeff tells me that he generated like, um, a billion dollars for Acronym. He has promised at least, um, like, um a gizzillion for Buddy Media. That pretty much sealed the deal for me.

Prior to joining Acronym, Jeff was the Business Development Manager at Digital Impact for four years, where he helped bring in market leaders like Nextel, PRIMEDIA, Comcast, and New York Life. Jeff is a native New Yorker and was born and raised in Manhattan. Jeff enjoys saltwater fishing and blogs about the weather.

Welcome to the team Jeff!