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Ari is a principal analyst serving Interactive Marketing Professionals. He has nearly 15 years of experience in crafting interactive marketing strategies and best practices that generate revenues, build customer relationships, and enrich intelligence. He focuses on email marketing, social media, digital direct and CRM, measurement and analysis, marketing operations, and organizational planning. Ari is based in New York City.
Ari brings extensive experience to Forrester's interactive marketing practice. Before joining Forrester, he served as director of relationship marketing for the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he managed database and email marketing, CRM, and membership programs. In this role, Ari focused on fan acquisition, engagement, and monetization primarily through digital channels. Prior to the NBA, he was director of strategic services for the interactive unit at Epsilon, where he helped clients develop, execute, and analyze digital marketing programs and strategies. His experience also includes brand management at a consumer packaged goods unit of Johnson & Johnson, as well as corporate marketing and client services roles for an international marketing services firm. Ari is also a frequent speaker at events on topics spanning digital and multichannel marketing.
Ari has an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a B.S. degree in communications from Cornell University.
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