E. Damien Fuentes is a respected media and technology executive. Damien currently consultants for several video and media advertising companies including Dimestore Media, Optimate Networks, and e-mbrio Venture Capital Partners.

He most recently turned around and rebuilt BondRewards (Lealta Media) business, website and platform as the VP, Product Marketing and Management. He helped build the technology, establish all marketing efforts and wrote several patents while also building a membership base of over one million opt-in members in 6 months.

Previously, Damien spent almost 3 years at Cybergold (now United Online MyPoints), recognized for his role as Director of Product Management for the Magna Cash division, focused on branded advertising loyalty software and payments for digital goods and services. He established and built Magna Cash's payments, CRM, and merchant tools applications and product programs including sales readiness, training programs and marketing programs. He built cross-functional teams to achieve a transaction processing volume over 25 million secure payment transactions per month, 5 million daily consumer email responses, define 12 new technology initiatives and create a new product generating over $4.5 million in revenue in its first year.

He ultimately helped to spin off Magna Cash into an online enterprise software Application Service Provider (ASP) company with over 75 employees. He helped build Magna Cash from a single product, single revenue source company to one with nearly a half million dollars in monthly revenues in a few months and multiple products inlcuding a peer-to-peer payments product critical to the sale of Magna Cash to Yaga, the leading content distribution company that serves AOL/Time-Warner and Tribune Media Services

Prior to Cybergold, Fuentes worked as a Web development consultant to various media, financial, and educational institutions including positions at Wells Fargo, Architecture & Emerging Technologies division, San Francisco State University Broadcasting Technologies, KTVU Fox 2 Programming. He was one of the key channel sales and marketing representatives building Macromedia from a 90 person company to a 1800 person company today.

Fuentes received his BA in Broadcast & Electronic Communications: Business Management and is an MA Candidate in Broadcast: Interactive Television from San Francisco State University.

Links to Online Work:

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Into Creative - Creative Seminars and Consulting
Jamie Schapiro Photography
Hot Latin Tracks
LMS Records
Magna Cash/Yaga
Cybergold/MyPoints
Wells Fargo Bank (Technical Services)
Xaos Tools
SFSU: Broadcast & Electronic Communications Department (BECA)
SFSU BECA Online News offline/online news delivery
Shieldstream

Portfolio of Restricted Works:

Magna Cash Account Issuer Development Tools
Magna Cash Website (in development)

DarkAgain - David Saperstein Online Book
Cybergold Client Support Center - Merchants Sales & Help Site
Cybergold Beta Sites - Consumer Test Site for Payment Processing
Cybergold Consumer Account Applications - Consumer Account Interfaces
Cybergold Payment Transaction Processing - Consumer Payment Processing Interfaces
Magna Cash Corporate Site
Magna Cash Issuer Site (Paytime) - Private Branded Online Account Issuer/Bank
Magna Cash Extranet Administration Tools - CRM Administration Tools
Wells Fargo Technical Resource Center - Scheduling, Calendaring, & Reservation Site
Wells Fargo Technical Library - Online Reservation, Ordering, & Research Site
Macromedia Merchant Support Page -
Macromedia Sales Support Tools
Checkpoint Communications - Channel/Partner Support Site

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