Tony Winders is a creative sales and marketing executive whose consumer and B2B experience and professional relationships span the media, technology, entertainment and advertising industries. He is currently vice president of marketing for ValueClick Media, the display advertising network and behavioral targeting division of ValueClick, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK), one the world’s most diversified online marketing services companies.

Mr. Winders joined ValueClick Media through its acquisition of Search123 in June 2003, where he was vice president of sales and marketing for the growing pay-per-click search engine. At Search123, Mr. Winders was responsible for managing its inside the sales team and all aspects of corporate communications, advertising, event marketing and public relations.

Prior to joining Search123, Mr. Winders was president and CEO of InterActive Agency, Inc. (a.k.a. iAgency), one of the world’s first interactive marketing services agencies, which he co-founded in 1995 with his friend and business partner Alan Wallace. A pioneer of several of the first Internet public relations, direct marketing and advertising tactics, under his leadership iAgency developed innovative campaigns for eToys, DIRECTV, NBC, latimes.com, Warner Bros., E! Online, SegaSoft (Heat.net), Interplay (Engage Games Online), Miller Freeman (Computer Game Developers Conference), CompuServe, F/X Networks, Imagine Television, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, Symantec, Qualcomm, Coca-Cola and several other technology, media and entertainment companies.

Mr. Winders began his career in interactive media in 1994 as the director of marketing at Viridis, a CD-ROM games developer in Santa Monica, California. He received extensive public relations agency experience in the early 1990s, as director of client programs for Murphy/O’Brien Communications in Beverly Hills and as an account executive at Paladino & Associates Public Relations in Hollywood.

While at Paladino & Associates, Mr. Winders’ was associate producer of two client-funded syndicated television programs, “Cooking with the Stars” for Galaxy Cheese Company and “Chiropractic Today and Beyond” for the Los Angeles Community Chiropractic Society. In addition, his diverse client base ranged from celebrities such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Valerie Harper and Mr. Blackwell to the Synchronicity Foundation, the Hollywood Wax Museum, Western Costume Company and several restaurants, real estate companies and entertainment industry events.

An active member of the digital media community in Los Angeles and nationally, Mr. Winders co-founded the Digital Family, an exclusive network of technology and business professionals whose mission is to create business connections for each other while working together to make a positive impact on the communities they serve. He also co-founded the Digital Coast Roundtable Industry Relations Committee and was a founding board member of VIC (Venice Interactive Community). He has served as an instructor of Internet marketing at UCLA Extension and is currently active on several Interactive Advertising Bureau committees.

Mr. Winders holds a B.S. degree in public relations from Central Missouri State University. He works in Westlake Village and resides in Agoura Hills, California with his wife Valen and two children, Ryan and Delaney.