AdReach®

Meet the AdReach Team

Beth Mushel

Advertising Sales Manager

Beth Mushel is an accomplished sales professional in the Media and Ad Tech space, with extensive experience selling enterprise-level SaaS, DaaS, DSP, and data ecosystems. She excels at building and developing high-performing teams and the next generation of leaders at both startups and large organizations, creates processes for structuring teams and go-to-market strategies, and leverages data to inform pipeline management.

With her experience managing teams, Beth leads with integrity, garners internal trust, and deflects praise downstream. She fosters a positive, creative, and collaborative culture where all team members can thrive, engendering loyalty, positivity, reduced turnover, and increased productivity.

Areas of Expertise

  • Programmatic
  • DSP
  • Connected TV
  • DOOH
  • SaaS Sales
  • Consultative Sales
  • Data-Driven Solutions
  • Team Building & Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Collaborations & Partnerships
  • Mentoring
  • Talent Development

Sug Shin

Hotel Partnership Manager

Sug Shin is a dynamic professional with over a decade of experience in project management, creative production, and organizational development. His diverse career spans non-profit disaster relief, early-stage private equity development, and film and theater production. An entrepreneurial spirit, Sug has been a pivotal part of launching several start-ups, including real estate development, a musical theater company, an award-winning web series, and a car wash company. His passion lies in collaborating with innovative people to amplify unheard voices, elevate new perspectives for new synergies between commerce and creation.

Highlights

  • Co-led the foundation and development for the Illinois division of the Everclean Car Wash company.
  • Managed the premiere of “Larry the Musical: An American Journey” at Brava Theater in San Francisco
  • Winner of The Second City Film School x Independent Film Alliance Filmmaker of the Year
  • Winner Best Web Series Los Angeles Comedy Film & Screenplay Festival
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Forever f-uncle to animals and humans alike

Tony Hessburg

Program Director

Tony Hessburg is a business-focused, strategy-minded marketing executive with 25 years of experience providing forward-thinking marketing, branding, digital transformation, and channel management for global brands. Before founding a marketing and interactive agency, he worked in corporate roles in motorsports and alpine sports. He has launched numerous brands, products and software applications. He has successfully disrupted traditional business and commerce models.

Highlights + Client Portfolio

  • Architected and piloted an international med-tech academy providing commercial diligence and market preparedness assessments on novel innovations as a feeder program for investors and global med tech brands
  • Developed and managed worldwide marketing, branding and public relations programs for Polaris
  • Key role in migrating the Polaris brand to a new, younger demographic
  • Managed US operations for Swiss-owned Palmer Snowboards and facilitated in growing the brand to the market share leader in the premium price point snowboard category
  • Wide range of marketing and product management including skis, snowboards, optical lenses and personal watercraft
  • Administered UX/UI of Oracle/ATG, Demandware, and Magento e-commerce initiatives for several global brands including UNICEF, Laura Mercier, and Nyakio
  • Managed front-end development and technical support for numerous e-commerce platforms and custom retail channel applications including for Deluxe Corporation, Finish Line, Hallmark, JBL, Kohler, Lumens, Ranger Boats, Reliable, and Trek Bikes
  • Managed professional athlete relations for Polaris, Palmer and Hart
  • BS Applied Economics with a focus in socioeconomics, international trade, and market analysis. Wall Street Journal Achievement Award recipient for academic distinction

Rebecca Laird

Program Operations

Rebecca Laird has fifteen years of experience as a project manager in both client-side and agency roles. Throughout her career, she has dedicated her time and responsibilities to elevating standards, processes and digital tools used for effective, on-time, on-budget project delivery. Her willingness to collaborate with internal and client stakeholders enables a workflow that is realistic, achievable and encourages transparency.

Beyond her professional endeavors, you will likely find her playing a board game, riding her Triumph Bobber on scenic byways, or trying out a new craft brewery.

Skill Highlights / Certifications + Client Portfolio

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner
  • Recipient of the Best of Show for Business-to-Business campaign in Minnesota
  • Arctic Cat
  • BASF
  • Boston Scientific
  • Hayward Industries
  • Inspire Medical Systems
  • Schwan’s
  • Target
  • Tetra Pak
  • TruShrimp
  • Vidscrip
  • Walgreens

Brent Leland

Senior Business + Technology Strategist

Brent Leland is a thought leader and consultant who has spent the last 25 years driving transformation in fast-growing, complex manufacturing, retail, and consumer products companies. He chaired the advisory board of Advancing AI Wisconsin, was the CIO of Trek Bicycle and held various finance, supply chain, engineering, and IT roles earlier in his career for Spectrum Brands (formerly Rayovac), Hewlett-Packard, Loral, and General Dynamics. Additional previous clients include Sub-Zero Wolf, Milwaukee Tool, Fiskars, Johnson Outdoors, and Stoughton Trailers.

Highlights + Client Portfolio

  • Strategic Assessment Leadership – Led several strategic initiatives at Sub-Zero Wolf including a Customer Experience Digital Transformation, Supply Chain Roadmap, BI Roadmap, and NPD Current State Assessment.
  • Thought Leadership – Presented at many events and led executive workshops focused on leveraging disruptive technologies and innovative growth strategies.
  • Technology Leadership – As Trek Bicycle’s first CIO, led a multi-year technology transformation bringing them into the modern era. Developed strategic technology roadmaps and served in interim leadership roles for a variety of clients.
  • Entrepreneurial Experience – Founded two consulting companies focused on innovative and technology-enabled growth strategies. Led a retail Point-of-Sale (POS) software company called Ascend in use by over 1,000 independent bike dealers. Adopted operating principles from successful software companies (agile, crowd-sourced innovation, etc.) to achieve the top market share in the US bike industry.
  • Analytics & Insights – Extensive experience both as a hands-on analyst and as a solution builder. These included scenario planning, predictive modeling, retail analytics, BI roadmaps, and leading analytics teams.
  • M&A, Integration Leadership – Led significant portions of IT and finance integrations for several large acquisitions as Spectrum Brands grew from a $300M North America battery company to a $2.6B global consumer products company.
  • Brent holds an MBA from Stanford and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida and is a certified Vistage speaker.

Fred Heim

Marketing + Innovation Strategist

Fred is an award-winning marketing executive specializing in business development, strategic growth, and artificial intelligence. With a career spanning multiple global sports, fitness, health, and wellness firms, he has successfully led teams through digital transformation, organizational transformation, and cross-unit integration. A lifelong competitive athlete, Fred has developed innovative products for numerous sporting goods companies, including Nike, where, as Global Product Line Manager, he launched new products for soccer, hockey, and volleyball.

Fred’s career was significantly shaped by his service as a rescue swimmer in the United States Navy, where he earned two rescue pins. As part of the H-60 aircrew, he logged over 1,000 hours of flight time and received a two-star Southwest Asia Service Medal. In his free time he plays beach volleyball and is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School in Malibu, California. Fred serves the community as a member of the Orange County Regional Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.

Highlights + Client Portfolio

  • Holds an MBA and a B.S. in Management with a specialization in Entrepreneurship from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
  • Awarded the prestigious George Award for leadership
  • Studied design, innovation, and visualization at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)
  • Polaris
  • Power Plate
  • Red Bull
  • Vision Ease
  • World Gym