Marco Pardi

Executive Vice President, Sales, UBM TechWeb Events Network

Marco is the Vice President of Sales for UBM TechWeb 's Events Network which includes industry leading event brands such as Interop, Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0, Gov 2.0 Summit, Gov 2.0 Expo, Enterprise Connect, Black Hat Conferences, Cloud Connect and Cloud Summit. In this role, he is responsible for domestic and international sales, sales marketing and field operations, representing over 1000 clients and $20 million in revenue annually. Marco brings more than 15 years of technology media experience to his role at UBM TechWeb.

Marco came to UBM TechWeb by way of acquisition of MediaLive Intl in 2006 where held the position of Vice President of Sales, overseeing all customer sales and sales marketing for the company and a member of the executive team reporting to the CEO. Originally recruited to MediaLive to turn around the technology industry's largest event, COMDEX , Marco also ran new business development where he was on the launch team for numerous events including Web 2.0 Summit, Enterprise 2.0, and Mobile Business Expo.

Prior to MediaLive, Marco was the Group Director of the Software Development Group at CMP Media. Marco served as Publisher of SD Magazine, oversaw the Software Development Events Group and managed related Web sites such as sdmagazine.com and sdexpo.com. Under Marco's leadership, SD Magazine won the 2002 Maggie Award for best publication in the computer/software category and went from third to first in marketshare for development focused publications. During his 10 years at CMP Media he was on the launch team for numerous events for including the Web Design & Development conferences, UML World, SD Bootcamp and the SD Best Practices Conference.

Marco holds a B.A. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley.