I began at TrainSignal - an online IT training company - in 2007 with just 10 other employees and a forecast of $2.3MM in revenue for the year. I was quickly promoted to Director of Sales & Support, then Director of Sales & Marketing, and finally to President in 2012. I soon hired our first-ever Director of Technology who assembled our 22-person team of skilled developers, designers and QA. With this as our backbone, I moved forward with creating a marketing/customer acquisition plan to transform our business model from DVDs to a subscription-based model so that IT professionals could stream courses online for a low monthly price. That's when things really started to happen. At this point, TrainSignal had become a 55-person team and a one-stop shop for CTOs and CIOs alike. By 2012 we were generating $7.4MM in revenue and on pace to hit over $10MM in 2013. With growth like that we made Inc. Magazine's “Fastest Growing Companies In America” list six years in a row. Developer training platform Pluralsight took notice and in August 2013, they acquired us for a sum of $23.6MM as they poised to take over the technical online education market. Specialties: Marketing | Business Development | Sales | Customer Acquisition & Retention | SEO | Management | Conversion Optimization | Analytics | Online Marketing | SEM | Talent Development | Affiliate Marketing | Branding | Digital Marketing | Social Media | Media Buys | Digital Advertising | Startup | Culture Building | Public Relations | Negotiations | Marketing Strategy | Growth Strategy | E-Commerce | Business Strategy | E-mail Marketing | Content Strategy | Offline Marketing | Direct Mail/Response Marketing

Chief of Staff @ ContextMedia is a health information services company, building digital media technologies to deliver lifestyle education to patients when and where it improves health outcomes. The company empowers healthcare professionals to engage patients while curating content personalized for each member office. Headquartered in Chicago, it is the fastest growing company in the industry impacting over ten million patient visits each month through contextual and actionable content in healthcare practices nationwide. ContextMedia operates a suite of hyper targeted Waiting Room TVs at point-of-care, to educate patients in the critical moments before they speak with their physician. In 2013, ContextMedia launched the Exam Room Tablet, the first fully interactive patient education tool at point of care, and has plans to deploy 50k tablets into the field by the end of 2016. From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Business Strategy & Marketing Consultant @ I've been a strategic consultant for a variety of Chicago businesses from idea inception stage all the way to fully profitable and operating. Industries I've worked with include: tech, retail, restaurants, bars, auto dealers and real estate. I've assisted in: - Strategic planning - Offline & online marketing/customer acquisition plans - Hiring and recruiting strategy - Investment and raising capital - E-commerce strategy and optimization - Identifying sales/partnership targets, securing meetings, reviewing term sheets, contract negotiations - Developing wireframes, investigating new technologies & managing developers - Using lean startup methodologies to quickly test and iterate on new business ideas - Content and lead generation strategies that increase traffic, leads and customers From 2006 to Present (9 years) Greater Chicago AreaMentor & Investor @ Iran's first startup accelerator From 2013 to Present (2 years) Growth & Strategy @ Review Trackers is a VC-backed startup making it easier for SMB's to monitor and analyze what is being said about them on online review sites like Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor and over forty other sites. From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Greater Chicago AreaPresident @ *Acquired by Pluralsight on August 1, 2013* - Helped increase revenue by 400% and web traffic over 500% - Sold over $35MM of IT training courses via TrainSignal.com - Successfully converted business to SaaS/subscription model after 10 years in business - Secured substantial line of credit instead of raising capital to continue bootstrapping - Hired a Director of Technology and helped grow the tech team to a team of 22 developers, designers and QA From 2012 to August 2013 (1 year) Project @ Professional sports ticketing alert system. From 2013 to 2013 (less than a year) Greater Chicago AreaDirector of Marketing & Sales @ - Directly managed Marketing, Sales and Customer Support teams - Search Engine Optimization(SEO) - Optimized TrainSignal's e-commerce website - Paid Search/PPC(SEM) - Managed over $100k/monthly spend Google Adwords & Facebook - Analytics – Complete funnel analysis, conversion and e-commerce tracking across all campaigns - Conversion Optimization - A/B & MVT site-wide using Optimizely - Company Branding – Complete corporate rebranding - Customer Experience – Implemented customer support ticketing system & improved metrics - Affiliate Marketing - Setup and managed merchant affiliate account via Shareasale - Social Media Marketing - Strategy and implementation - Media Buying – Over a $1MM in media buys across multiple ad networks and blogs - Trade Show - Exhibited at numerous major IT conferences and user groups - TrainSignal blog grew to over 250k unique visitors a month generating a substantial amount of sales & leads - Direct Mail & Offline Marketing From 2007 to 2012 (5 years) Greater Chicago AreaVice President @ * Marketing * Hiring * Financing * Business Development From 2002 to 2007 (5 years) Greater Chicago AreaGlobal Sales @ * Online Marketing * Business Development * Sales From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Greater Chicago Area

Marketing @ Roosevelt University From 2003 to 2005 Iman Jalali is skilled in: Online Marketing, Start-ups, Marketing, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Business Development, E-commerce, Management, Sales, Product Marketing, B2B Marketing, SEO, Customer Acquisition, SEM, Marketing Management