Ethnicity caucasian Name Porter Gale Title Ms. Role Marketer | Family daughter Movies XXXY Website www.portergale.com Children Rylee Blum | |
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Full Name Mary Porter Gale Born April 24 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Occupation Author, public speaker, marketer Residence San Francisco, California, United States Books Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age | ||
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Porter Gale is an American marketing expert, start-up advisor, and public speaker. She is the author of Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age, released by Simon & Schuster/Atria in June 2013.
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- Porter gale aprimo marketing summit 2012 sneak preview
- Your business in a hyper connected consumer employee world porter gale at tedxpresidio
- Career
- Startup advising
- Influence
- Speaking Writing
- Your Network Is Your Net Worth
- Filmmaking
- References
Your business in a hyper connected consumer employee world porter gale at tedxpresidio
Career
Gale has a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Boston University and a master's in documentary film and video from Stanford University.
From 2007 to 2011, Gale was the Vice President of Marketing for Virgin America, where she was hired to launch the brand, including online marketing, the loyalty team, and in-flight content.
Prior to joining Virgin America, Gale was General Manager at marketing firm Kirshenbaum Bond and Partners and freelanced at Publicis & Hal Riney and Bozell. Gale also founded her own marketing firm, the Porter Gale Group, and production company, Porter Pictures. The Porter Gale Group's clients included Country Music Television, Blue Shield of California, and Delta Dental.
Startup advising
Gale is an advisor for RocketFuel, WePay, Zozi, N3TWORK, AirPR, Here On Biz, PunchTab, Accompani, Vurb, UpLift, TrueFacet, fitmob and Hint Water. She also sat on the board of directors for the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau from 2008 to 2012.
Influence
In 2010, Gale was awarded the Changing the Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). In 2011, she was included in AdAge’s Digital Hotlist and iMedia's Top 25-Digital Marketers. In 2012, Business Insider called Gale one of The Fifty Sexiest Ad Executives, and the Huffington Post named her a Digital Passionista.
Speaking & Writing
Gale is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at business, marketing, and technology conferences and symposia. She has appeared at the Economist Marketing Forum, Ad Age Digital Forum, Real Estate Connect, the Think Conference, SXSW, NFFTY, BizTechDay, TechCrunch, and the Powerful Women Paving the Way Conference at Penn State University.
Gale regularly writes for AdAge and the Huffington Post.
Your Network Is Your Net Worth
In June 2013, Gale released her first book, Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age, published by Simon & Schuster/Atria with foreword by Guy Kawasaki.
Filmmaking
In 1998, Gale was the executive co-producer of the documentary 2 Chicks, 2 Bikes, 1 Cause. The film detailed a bicycle journey of Gale and another rider, Donna Murphy, who pedaled 5,000 miles across 18 states in four months educating women about early detection and prevention of breast cancer. Lifetime broadcast the film in 1998.
In 2000, she co-directed the short documentary XXXY (film), a portrait of two individuals born with ambiguous genitalia. The short calls into question the medical practice of gender assignment surgery of intersex infants and children. XXXY was broadcast on PBS in 2000. and can be seen via Interface Project.
In 2010, Gale was a co-executive producer of the CW Network's Fly Girls, a reality docu-series that followed the personal lives of five flight attendants working for Virgin America.
Gale has also made documentary-style commercials for Kohl’s and Country Music Television.