Brock is an accomplished Senior Executive, C-Suite Officer, Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Board Member with over 17 years of success in marketing, advertising, and technology. Brock also possesses extensive experience in strategy and integrated media and technology. His broad areas of expertise include radio, TV, broadcast, video, digital, online, and mobile advertising; search engine marketing (SEM); social media and email marketing; new business development; sales management; and professional development.

In his executive career, Brock has held leadership positions at AdCellerant (Co-Founder/CEO), Affinity Express, AdTaxi, Digital First Media, Clarity Media Group, The Denver Post, and Schurz Communications. He co-founded AdCellerant, a leading digital advertising and technology company, leveraging an award-winning proprietary ad software platform that delivers digital marketing plans based on campaign industry and objectives, creating operational efficiencies and revenues. In AdCellerant’s first four years, the company experienced over 4,000% growth and went from zero to over $75 million in revenue in less than three years. Brock has independently consulted with many companies in operational excellence and performance improvement. He and his team have been recognized by CoBiz Magazine as a Top Digital Services Company and as a “Best Workplace” by Colorado, Inc. Magazine for two consecutive years, as well as earning many industry success awards, including Red Herring, The Denver Post, Innovation Pavilion, The Globees, Denver Business Journal, and Editor & Publisher.

Shelby Carlson is an accomplished technology executive with 14 years of experience leading organizations, developing products, and growing companies from start-up to maturity. Her extensive experience in digital marketing and technology makes her a subject matter expert in programmatic, native, OTT, video, search advertising, and email marketing.

In her executive career, Shelby evolved MediaNews group from a print media company to a multi-platform media company developing over 264 mobile applications and web user experiences, and developed over 500+ social media pages. After leaving MediaNews Group, Shelby Co-Founded AdCellerant to help make quality digital marketing accessible to every business. As the COO of AdCellerant, Ms. Carlson led development efforts in products tied to Geo-Fencing, proprietary internal operational tools, an operations team handling over 20,000 digital marketing campaigns per year, and much more. Her leadership has been recognized by the Denver Business Journal, where she has been recognized twice as a “Top Woman in Business.” Her team has been recognized by The Globees, Stevies, and Business Intelligence Group as being the best in the industry. Her department has also been recognized by CoBiz Magazine as being the top Professional Services company in Colorado.

John Chamberlin is a product & technology expert focused on developing best in class software and solutions to power AdCellerant’s campaign performance. As the CIO and Co-Founder of AdCellerant, John leads the day-to-day operational growth and manages overall product development. Previously, John was the Sr. Director of Paid Search, SEO, and Social Media at AdTaxi Networks. At AdTaxi, John led the growth of search sales from virtually zero revenue to more than $20 million per year while building a best in class search operations team. As a result, AdTaxi Networks was recognized as a Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner. Premier Partners connect experienced AdWords partners with businesses that want expertise in creating, managing, and optimizing their online advertising campaigns. John’s 31+ year career as a technology and media professional began with managing the mainframe and distributed networks for the United States Air Force. John has continued to remain on the leading edge of technology, applying his experience and knowledge to current day media and advertising applications.

Christopher Christopulos leads the Finance Team for AdCellerant. With his experience in both Operational and Corporate finance, Christopher brings a dynamic and strategic perspective to the AdCellerant team. Prior to his role with AdCellerant, Christopher was the Vice President of Finance for AdTaxi Networks, reporting directly to the President. Preceding his VP role, Christopher was the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for both The Denver Post and its parent company, Digital First Media. As the FP&A lead within DFM, Christopher headed efforts to consolidate financial information across multiple networks, led planning analysis for all revenue and expense cycles, managed start-to-finish budget processes, designed the general ledger to account for new sales strategies, captained all pro formas for company-wide initiatives, and liaised between the various department heads and the executive committee. Before his director role, Christopher was corporate finance’s Financial Analyst at MediaNews Group. In his corporate role, he was responsible for all corporate reporting, revenue and expense projections, and the majority of ad hoc reporting, as well as being vital player in the operating, capital, and corporate budget process.

Melissa is a results-oriented sales leader with nearly 20 years of experience in digital advertising, sales, and media. She has a proven track record of building and leading successful sales teams and has worked with brands, agencies, and media companies to improve processes, sales, and digital ad revenue. As AdCellerant's Chief Revenue Officer, Melissa is responsible for leveraging the company's advertising technology with relevant advertisers and channel sales partners to increase results for SMB advertisers. Since she joined the leadership team in 2017, AdCellerant has grown more than 200%, earning its place on the Inc. Top 5000 list for the last five years.

Kyle Gibbons is the VP of Product and Support at AdCellerant. He has a strong passion for anything digital, with experience ranging from SEO, Social, SEM to display management. In his previous role at Dealer.com, he helped improve Subaru’s digital strategy for their local dealerships across the Western Region, which included website enhancements and improving Subaru’s digital advertising campaigns both regionally and locally. Kyle also has extensive experience in web development, mainly in MEAN stack applications, and front-end development. In his spare time, you can find him going out around Denver and heading out to the mountains.

Meghan Brito is an accomplished marketing professional who loves creating a cohesive marketing strategy and bringing a brand’s marketing to the next level.

Meghan has been in the marketing and digital industries for over 10 years, most recently joining AdCellerant from AdTaxi where she successfully managed the corporate marketing strategy, creative initiatives, and execution of the brand.

In a past life, Meghan was a World Champion equestrian, but you can find the Colorado-native searching for the best donut, most fun fitness class, or coolest trivia venue with her husband and dogs.

James Humphrey is the VP of Engineering of our Platforms Division and is responsible for all site reliability and data pipelining. James started coding professionally in the late 90s, building Cold Fusion apps during the tech boom. Now, with over 20 years in the industry, James has a breadth of experience building scalable web solutions across the front and back end spectrum and over the past 10 years has focused his career on service-oriented architecture and managing engineering teams and processes.

James proudly and honorably served in the United State Armed Forces, achieving the rank of E5 in the United States Navy, and studied Computer Science Engineering at CU Boulder. He loves friends, family, and cats and enjoys reading, playing guitar, and gaming with his son in his spare time.

Jeff is the VP of Engineering on the applications side of the team. Jeff forgot to give us a bio 🙂

Addy Earles is the Vice President of Sales at AdCellerant.  Addy joined the AdCellerant team in April 2019 to spearhead internal and external training strategies and improve client success and satisfaction. Prior to joining AdCellerant, Addy was the Director of Digital Revenue for Schurz Communication, Inc. where she was responsible for growing and overseeing digital revenue for over 20 media properties. Addy joined the Schurz Corporate team in 2013 to help expand and manage the digital footprint beyond their O&O properties.  She worked with digital sellers and properties across the country coaching and supporting media outlets in their digital ventures.

Previously, Addy held roles as a Digital Sales Manager for WSBT, a formerly-owned Schurz television station, for 5 years.  During her tenure with the station, she was responsible for triple-digit digital growth and developing a stand-alone digital sales team.  Before entering management, Addy was an Account Executive for WRTV and WXIN in Indianapolis, where she sold television and digital products to direct accounts and agencies.  She got her start as a Media Buyer at the Indianapolis based agency, St. Claire Group.

Addy is a graduate of Butler University and is a proud Bulldog alumna.  In her spare time, Addy enjoys flying airplanes and learning as much about the aviation world as possible.  She resides in Evansville, Indiana, with her husband, Jeremy, and 5-year-old daughter, Amelia.

Ben Bouslog is Vice President of Business Development at AdCellerant. His passion for the Digital Industry fuels his daily responsibilities of finding and educating media companies, agencies, and local marketers on how to leverage the AdCellerant platform to grow and drive digital revenue streams. His background in Display, Email, PPC, SEO, and Social Media and Reputation Management fuel his enthusiasm for the digital realm. Ben graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 2014 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Administration. Shortly after, he moved to Denver, Colorado, to pursue his career in Digital Marketing. As a born leader with a profound ability to surpass expectations, his high-energy, hard work, and fun-loving attitude has been appreciated to enhance any organization he has been a part of. In his spare time, the Iowa native can be found exploring the mountains of Colorado or traveling with his wife, Mallory, and two pups, MokaJay & Hubig.

Candace Rhodes is currently a VP of Operations here at Adcellerant.  With over 7 years of digital advertising experience, she strives to always provide prompt and solution-oriented service. Before joining the Adcellerant team, she worked at Outside Magazine as an Ad Operations Director and Vail Resorts Corporation, and AdTaxi as a Senior Campaign Manager.

When Candace isn’t outside taking advantage of all Colorado has to offer, you can find her snuggled up with her pup watching the newest Netflix series.

Allyson “Ally” Maness is a VP of Operations at AdCellerant. Ally manages a phenomenal team of Operations Campaign Managers and brings a level of expertise to her role that is detailed, thorough and efficient. Ally has over eight years of experience in advertising operations and manages her accounts with a skilled and strategic vision for success. She has a passion for customer service and is only ever satisfied when she knows she is doing the best job possible for her team. Ally has a Masters degree in Management from CSU and she has two dogs that are the light of her life!