Dana Hayes Jr.

Dana C. Hayes Jr. is an experienced executive in television, publishing, and digital media focused around advertising, content, and technology.

As Group Vice President of Global Partner Development for Acxiom, Dana leads a new growth strategy focused on building strategic partnerships and distribution relationships to advance data-driven marketing and advertising globally. Given this array of exposures, he has an integrated perspective on how data can be better used within the enterprise and writes from this perspective for the brand's internal media planners or for the ad agency community.

He has held a number of leadership positions around leading the ad sales teams in print, television, and digital. Dana has also been involved in launching digital products, business development, marketing, and ad operations. His portfolio includes both New York and Chicago companies with the following media brands: Travora Media, Tribune Interactive, Turner Broadcasting, The Travel Channel, and Weather.com. During his tenure at Tribune Interactive, Dana led the creation, development, and funding of the Joint Venture quadrantONE.com, a premium national ad platform for online newspaper and television publishers including investors NYT, Gannett, Hearst, and Tribune.