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Brian Colbert, Vice President of Mobile Advertising

Brian_Colbert_-_Pandora_v2Brian is the Vice-President of Mobile Advertising Sales at Pandora, where he is charged with helping advertisers reach their target audience across Pandora’s mobile product portfolio. Pandora boasts one of the largest mobile audiences in the country based on monthly unique visitors and is one of the most downloaded mobile applications of all-time.  
Prior to joining Pandora, Brian was the Senior Director of Mobile Advertising Sales and Strategy at ESPN, where he helped build the mobile business since 2007 and developed many of the sales strategies that made ESPN a leading destination for national brand advertisers.  Before that, Brian was the Director of Advertising Sales at Music Choice, the leading video on-demand content provider in the U.S., where he started the sales team and oversaw the company’s sales efforts on VOD, broadband and mobile.  Brian was also at MTV for several years where he was the Director of Marketing for MTV, MTV2 and MTV.com and also a senior sales executive for mtvU when the network was launched in 2003.
Brian holds a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business with a concentration in Corporate Finance and Strategy.