Brendan Smith of Mobile Ad Tech Firm Motive Interactive Wins CEO of the Year

    SAN DIEGO, CA, June 30, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Brendan Smith has been announced as a gold winner in the prestigious CEO World Awards in the category for CEO of the Year. The coveted annual CEO World Awards program encompasses the world's best in leadership, innovation, organizational performance, new products and services, CEO case studies, corporate social responsibility, and milestones from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups. The awards also recognized businesses for a number of categories including Fastest Growing Company, which Smith's company Motive Interactive took home the prize for the third consecutive year.

Brendan Smith is the Founder and CEO of Motive Interactive, an inspiring and empathetic business leader who lives by a servant leadership philosophy. Smith attributes his success and the growth of Motive to the employees, mentors and positive people with whom he associates. A humble servant CEO he is quick to pass praise to those around him and just as quick to accept full responsibility when things fail.

Motive is a global mobile advertising platform that provides performance mobile marketing, user acquisition and programmatic media buying. Motive's growth has been consistent with an impressive jump in revenue from $8 million in 2010 to over $30 million and profitable in 2015. His keen eye for delivering new product lines, staying ahead of the online advertising industry and entering the fast-growing mobile advertising space are key reasons Motive has been able to grow at an astonishing rate.

The exponential growth is due to a major restricting of the company that Smith initiated and led over the past five years. Motive has completely transitioned into the mobile advertising marketplace. Not long ago their client base was almost exclusively in the online advertising sector - restructuring the business while remaining profitable was equally as impressive. To do this Brendan established relationships with financial institutions to insure Motive's ability to grow. He successfully managed the raising of private equity capital, has set up accounts receivables financing, trade credit insurance and on-boarded a completely new scalable IT infrastructure.

Akin to the Servant Leadership Philosophy, Smith created a unique corporate culture that is the accumulation of every individual employee's values. The company's mission, vision and core values are all determined by the entire team not senior management or the CEO.

In 2014 and 2015 Motive Interactive was named the 3rd best Mobile Advertising Provider respectfully following Twitter, and Google on a list of the Top 25 Advertising Partners by TUNE, Inc (providers of MobileAppTracking). Motive has also been named to the Inc. 5000 list three times most recently with 116% growth on the 2015 list.

"It's an honor to be named a winner by CEO World Awards for this esteemed industry and peer recognition," said Smith. "These awards are a testament to Motive's commitment to "empowering partnerships with customized mobile ad solutions, cutting edge technology, and industry expertise," said Smith.

About Motive Interactive
Motive Interactive is a performance-based mobile ad network that represents brands across numerous verticals with a focus on user acquisition for mobile apps. Motive remains a privately held firm with its technical, marketing and sales operations in San Diego, California. Motive provides mobile marketing services for many of the leading app companies across the globe. Motive develops and markets technologies, strategies and services that have been defining digital marketing since 2003. Motive's commitment to quality and dedication to clients' success defines their operating philosophy. They foster a collaborative environment where innovation, uncompromising integrity and passion for its clients led to significant growth in the past few years. The organization's keen eye for delivering new product lines, its history of success in digital advertising and their ability to adapt to and embrace the fast-growing mobile advertising space are key reasons for their rapid growth rate.
Learn more about Motive Interactive at www.motiveinteractive.com

About the CEO World Awards
CEO World Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring CEOs and Companies of all types and sizes in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America. The Annual CEO World Awards is part of the SVUS Awards recognition program from Silicon Valley in the United States of America which also includes other programs such as Consumer World Awards, Customer Sales and Service World Awards, Golden Bridge Awards, Globee Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards, Info Security's Global Excellence Awards, Network Products Guide's IT World Awards, Pillar World Awards, PR World Awards, and Women World Awards. Learn more about The CEO World Awards at www.ceoworldawards.com

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