Yannis Dosios
About
Yannis Dosios is from San Francisco Bay Area. Yannis works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Marketing & Advertising", "Investment Management", and "Wireless". Yannis is currently VP Emerging Businesses at Twitter, located in San Francisco Bay Area. In Yannis's previous role as a Vice President, Global Strategy & Operations at Twitter, Yannis worked in San Francisco Bay Area until May 2019. Prior to joining Twitter, Yannis was a Vice President, Platform & Exchange Sales & Operations at Yahoo and held the position of Vice President, Platform & Exchange Sales & Operations at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Yannis was a Vice President, Yahoo Publisher Services at Yahoo, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Aug 2014 to Sep 2015. Yannis started working as VP Business Operations & Sales Planning at Flurry, Inc. in San Francisco Bay Area in Jan 2014. From Feb 2011 to Jan 2014, Yannis was VP Flurry For Publishers at Flurry, Inc., based in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Yannis was a VP Europe at Smilebox from Dec 2009 to Feb 2011. Yannis started working as Executive Board Member at The Open Fund in Oct 2009.
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Yannis Dosios's current jobs
Responsible for revenue generation and setting the commercial vision, strategic direction and goals for Twitter's emerging businesses. Emerging Businesses include Twitter's Mopub and Data Enterprise Solutions (DES) businesses, as well as the development and nurturing of future business lines for Twitter.
Yannis Dosios's past jobs
Global head of Strategy and Operations for Twitter's Customers team. Leading a team that builds infrastructure, data-driven decision making, account management, learning & development and cross-team collaboration across all revenue and partnership divisions inside Twitter, as well as developing and driving revenue growth strategy.
• Lead Yahoo’s $1B+ programmatic business, including the Brightroll DSP, Brightroll Exchange and all third party advertising demand and supply across mobile and desktop. • Manage a 130-person sales, account management, operations and integration team. • Delivered 100%+ Platform & Exchange revenue growth during first year in role. • Integrated Flurry and Brightroll sales and operations teams into Yahoo. Set clear vision and team values, developed and retained top talent, made 35+ strong hires in first year.
• Led all third party video and native supply growth across mobile and desktop. • Launched Yahoo’s native solution for third party publishers; grew it from $0 to $250M in the first year. • Managed 50-person global sales, account management, operations and integrations team. • Signed major premium publisher deals including The Weather Channel, ABC News, The Weather Channel, AOL, USA Today Sports, The Daily Telegraph.
• Led all advertising operations, business performance measurement & optimization, pricing & yield management and sales tools enablement. • Managed team that maximized performance for Flurry and its Advertisers, Publishers and Demand Side Platform partners.
• Led Flurry For Publishers (FFP) business, Flurry’s mobile ad serving platform, offering an RTB Marketplace, a Direct ad sales platform and network mediation. • Managed team of outbound publisher sales and account managers. • Grew FFP inventory from inception to multi-Billion monthly requests, signing up major mobile app developers in games, social networking, entertainment and utility verticals.
Ran strategy and all operations of Smilebox’s expansion into major European markets including UK, FR and DE.
The Openfund is a seed capital fund, focused on high tech start-ups in central and south eastern Europe. The Openfund provides 2 critical elements missing from entrepreneurship in the region: startup capital and high quality business mentoring. As an Executive Board member, I participated in the selection of new startup companies to be funded and I advised selected companies on business matters with a focus on marketing, business development, fundraising and general management.
• Ran all aspects of Smilebox's marketing strategy, including SEM, SEO, Affiliates, PR, grass roots marketing, partner management, business model & pricing, usage and monetization optimizations, product branding and messaging strategy, qualitative and quantitative research. • Co-ran Business Development together with company CEO. • Negotiated and signed deals with leading media companies.
• Managed the product planning and launch of a new Windows operating system for emerging markets, in 7 languages and in 22 countries, selling over 1 million units in its first year. • Received 2005 Marketing Excellence Award, presented by CEO Steve Ballmer to the top 5 of over 5,000 marketing professionals in the company worldwide.