Jonathan Lister
About
Jonathan Lister is from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jonathan is currently Chief Growth Officer at Teaching Strategies. Jonathan also works as Board Member at Service Inspired Restaurants (SIR Corp.), a job Jonathan has held since Jan 2020. In Jonathan's previous role as a Chief Operating Officer at Vidyard, Jonathan worked in Toronto until Dec 2025. Prior to joining Vidyard, Jonathan was a VP, Global Sales Solutions at LinkedIn and held the position of VP, Global Sales Solutions at Toronto and San Francisco. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Board Member and Investor at FlashStock from Jan 2014 to Jan 2017. Jonathan started working as Country Manager & Managing Director at Google in Toronto in Jan 2009. From Jan 2001 to Jan 2008, Jonathan was CEO, Canada & Senior Vice President, Operations at AOL, based in London and Toronto. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Director, Sales at Bird on a Wire (Acquired by AT&T), based in Toronto from Jan 2000 to Jan 2001. Jonathan started working as Sr. Account Executive at CDG (Acquired by Wiley) in Toronto, Canada Area in Jan 1995.
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Jonathan Lister's current jobs
Teaching Strategies® is the leading provider of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement solutions. Its products, including the most widely used curriculum and assessment solutions, The Creative Curriculum® and GOLD®, are found in over 240,000 classrooms and more than 80 countries around the world and reach over 4 million children each year. A trusted partner and advocate for the early education community for 45 years, today Teaching Strategies connects teachers, children and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, insightful data, stronger family partnerships, and robust professional learning through SmartTeach™, the leading early learning platform
SIR Corp comprises 5550+ team members, 7 restaurant brands and 60+ locations
Jonathan Lister's past jobs
Responsible for sales, marketing and growth marketing at Vidyard, a leader in B2B go-to-market AI video hosting and messaging. Using AI to create the future of productive buyer and seller relationships.
I led the global Sales Solutions team at LinkedIn. Our mission was to build trusted and valuable buyer-seller relationships powered by the world’s largest professional network. We were creating economic opportunity by empowering every sales professional to put their buyers first. I also led the Marketing Solutions NA sales team and was instrumental in helping pivot that business from display advertising to sponsored content. I started and ended as Canada Country Manager and helped launch both the Canadian and Latin America businesses.
Acquired by Shuttershock
I led a team of people selling Search and Display into Canadian enterprise clients. I also played a key role in influencing a cross-functional team that ran Marketing, BD, Product, PR and Online Sales in Canada. I got to coach and lead some amazing people and helped hire a few great ones too.
I was responsible for a Pan-European P&L and managed Search, Programming, Product Management, Marketing, Online Strategy and Web Production across the region. I had a great team spanning Germany, France, the UK and India and together we built a strong and responsible culture. This group of people rebuilt the European media business. I started as a Director of Marketing Solutions and also ran AOL Canada.
I helped design and implement the sales function at a start up Managed Internet Infrastructure company. Together we built the enterprise sales function and operations to support large clients. The team grew annualized revenue to multi-million dollars in first year of operations with 60+ clients after year one.