Willis Duran

Willis Duran has held a variety of roles in the sales, marketing, and business development fields. In 1999, they were hired on contract as a Coordinator, Sales & Marketing Operations at IBM. In 2000, they became an Account Executive, Sales & Business Development at Young & Rubicam. From 2002 to 2009, they held various Operations, Marketing and Sales roles at AOL, LLC, ranging from Coordinator to Senior Manager. In 2009, they were promoted to Director, Strategic Sales at AOL Inc., where they were the Client-lead and focused on growing Branded Content and Ad Technology sales revenue across AOL's advertising suite. From 2015 to 2021, they were a Senior Account Executive at Amazon, where they were the Business Lead on brands across Consumer Packaged Goods categories and leveraged Amazon proprietary sales and audience data to drive annual brand planning and activate media across Search, Display, Programmatic, OTT, and Experiential channels. In 2021, they became a Lead Brand Partner at Linqia.

Willis Duran has attended both Binghamton University and New York University, though the duration of their attendance at each school is unknown.