Bennett Fogel

Chief Commercial Officer at Octopus Interactive

Bennett Fogel is the Chief Commercial Officer at Octopus Interactive. Bennett has held this position since 2021.

Bennett Fogel was previously the Chief Revenue Officer at Aura from January 2019 to December 2020. Bennett was responsible for all revenues, sales teams and strategies, partnership management and business development for the fast growing fintech lending platform with $250+ million in annual loan origination. Oversight also included all marketing activities, including B2B and B2C strategies and initiatives.

From 2008 to 2018, Bennett Fogel was the Chief Revenue Officer at National CineMedia (NCM). Bennett was responsible for all revenues, sales strategies, client relationships and divisional management across National, Regional and Digital sales organizations as well as Strategic Insights and Analytics, Sales Operations and Marketing. The company had 300+ employees with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Denver.

During their time as CRO, Bennett Fogel achieved record high revenue of over $100MM in regional sales during their first year. Bennett also achieved record 16% revenue growth across all sales divisions in 2 years.

Bennett conceived and implemented “NCM Upfront” initiative moving into the national TV upfront marketplace which generated over 100% growth to $230MM in advanced bookings from 2014 to 2016; achieved targeted 70% upfront inventory sellout.

Bennett developed a new audience targeting system enabling inventory management to create targeted schedules which generated up to

Bennett Fogel's educational career would include obtaining a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from Hofstra University.

Bennett Fogel reports to Cherian Thomas, Co-founder & CEO. Bennett Fogel works with Lauren Diruggiero - Senior Director, Driver Retention & Communications, Abu Balanandan - Chief Technology Officer, and Shirish Verma - Chief Financial Officer.

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  • Chief Commercial Officer

    February, 2020 - present

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