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Mr. Steven Walsh is Senior Vice President - Sales of Rentrak Corporation. Mr. Walsh has more than 20 years of proven strategic sales and sales management experience and is a recognized client management leader in the multi-screen audience research industry. Mr. Walsh has held key sales leadership positions at research industry startups and current standard-bearers including Integrated Media Measurement, Inc. (IMMI), Experian Research Services, IAG Research, TNS Media Intelligence and Nielsen Media Research where he played critical roles at each in significantly shaping and expanding the company's revenue, client base and strategic positioning. He played an instrumental role in growing IAG from an 8-employee startup in 2001 into a 250-employee syndicated advertising effectiveness measurement company by 2006 that eventually led to the acquisition of IAG by Nielsen Media Research in 2008 for $225 million. Mr. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Management from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in addition to being a member of the Radio & Television Research Council and Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), he has been a guest lecturer at New York University, Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut.