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Brad serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He is a leading expert on multi-channel strategy, digital channels, social media, customer behavior and trends in the financial services industry. He is also a noted authority on technology developments that affect the digital channels and vendors that facilitate digital sales, service, onboarding, and payments.
In his research, Brad covers financial service channel topics such as digital sales and merchandising, new customer onboarding, channel metrics and measurements, organizational design, mobile wallets/payments, servicing and self-service, and social computing in the financial services world. He developed and authored the well-respected annual sales and service website rankings as well as “The State Of North American Digital Banking,” a joint study conducted with the Consumer Bankers Association and a key industry benchmark publication.
Prior to joining Forrester, Brad spent more than 10 years developing and managing online services for consumers. Most recently, Brad was a vice president in Wells Fargo's Internet services group. During his tenure there, Brad led the development of Wells Fargo's eBusiness strategy and managed a team dedicated to driving online sales, including marketing, platform development, cross-selling, and channel integration efforts. He also developed and managed the company's highly respected online banking service, which included money movement, bill payment and presentment, personal financial management integration, person-to-person payments, and personalization. Prior to his employment at Wells Fargo, Brad spent four years as product and marketing manager for a respected healthcare information provider in St. Louis.
Brad has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and American Banker. An accomplished public speaker, Brad has delivered speeches at many events, including Forrester's Finance Forum, Technology Leadership Forum, and European Finance Forum.
Brad earned a bachelor's degree in advertising from the University of Kansas and an MBA in marketing and information systems from the University of Missouri.
Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders
Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

Yes, really. If you make decisions about your company's interactive marketing programs in China, I want to give you some data you probably don't have access to: Survey data on how your peers...
On its first quarterly earnings call, Facebook left it to Sheryl Sandberg to talk about how the company makes most of its money: marketing. And I was encouraged by how much she discussed the topic...

Interactive Marketers Should Set A Long-Term Social Marketing Plan Now
Nearly a billion people around the world use Facebook — and it's no surprise marketers are chasing all those users. In fact, Facebook says 96 of the top 100 marketers are on the site....
Marketers Must Start Paying Attention And Stop Buying Bad Inventory
The more online video advertising matures, the more it resembles TV advertising. But if marketers aren't careful, the inventory they're buying can look like overnight rather than prime time. Too many...
Brand marketers don’t spend much online. It’s been a long-time frustration for me, but it’s undeniably true: According to our most recent interactive marketing forecast, marketers...
And The One Way They Shouldn't
Every year social media users around the world post hundreds of billions of pieces of social content about the products and services marketed to them. But few marketers track this data, and even...
Put Interactive Marketing At The Heart Of Your Branding Campaigns
Your customers have entered an era of interactivity; it's time for your branding campaigns to catch up. Rather than continue to develop your brand in 30-second snippets and hope you can build a...
The Rise Of The Joiners And The Conversationalists
Social media adoption in Europe continues to grow: 68% of online Europeans now use social technologies each month, up from 61% in 2009. Not only has the use of social networks grown significantly in...
Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook
Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...
A couple months ago I talked about the reasons interactive marketing is ready to lead your brand -- namely, that it offers scale that can compete with any other channel, it provides more...
We've been saying for a while now -- based on the evidence we've seen in certain European markets -- that online video viewers are happy to watch a significant number of in-stream ads in...
European marketers are as excited about social media today as ever before. In fact, according to our annual survey, three-quarters of interactive marketers in Europe either already use social media...
Marketers Move Toward Multichannel Planning And Execution
Interactive marketers are working hard to keep up with the evolving landscape of channels, tools, and technologies at their disposal for 2011 budget planning. Seventy percent of marketers expect...
Vision: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketers have access to more marketing channels than ever before — but most of them are struggling to cope with this increasing complexity. For CMOs and senior marketers, all of these new...

I'm really pleased to announce that I've moved back to New York City. I actually started my interactive marketing career in New York almost 15 years ago, and I started my analyst career in...
The Groundswell is now global. Social media has entered the mainstream in every single market Forrester regularly surveys — and in most of those markets, social media use is at 75% or...
Using Facebook Login To Your Advantage
This report, originally written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, contains important insight and recommendations for interactive marketing professionals as well. Since the...

Business Case: The Social Marketing Playbook
The demand has never been greater for marketers to validate and measure the benefits delivered by their increasing investment in social media. Marketers often frame this question as, "What is the ROI...

I'm thrilled to announce that this year Forrester will present the first-ever Forrester International Groundswell Awards! The Forrester Groundswell Awards are our effort to recognize not just...
I've always loved examples of the crossover between online and offline influence; my 2009 report The Analog Groundswell contains some of my favorite examples of that overlap. Our new...