Navads, the leading provider of location content to the databases that power the navigation and mapping industry, today announced the hiring of Johan Van Vulpen as the company’s new chief operating officer. Van Vulpen will further develop and structure Navads’ rapidly growing operation.
An impassioned entrepreneur and innovator, Van Vulpen brings a proven ability to build scalable technology companies along with value for stakeholders. He is former CEO and co-founder of Greetz, a leading e-commerce business for personalized greeting cards and gifts.
Navads also announced a new partnership today with leading local digital marketing software and services provider Advice Local (@Advice_Local). Through the partnership, Advice Local will publish its business listings data to Navads’ global mapping and navigation channels, ensuring Advice’s clients around the world will be visible in all major mapping platforms.
Today’s announcement was made during this week’s LOCALCON conference in London, where Navads’ Rubin is scheduled to speak about “Technologies Generating New Business Models and Success,” with a focus on new technologies changing the local advertising landscape and emerging opportunities for businesses with a physical location.
Founded in 2009, Advice Local offers superior local digital location management technologies and services to SMBs, channel partners, agencies and national brands. Today we are helping over 300,000 business locations reach mobile consumers across a network of over 200 directories, search engines, online profiles, apps, mapping solutions, and social media partners which includes Google, Bing, Facebook, Foursquare, Yahoo, and Yelp. Our local search technologies, and agency services will enable millions of businesses to tap into the power of accurate location data that drive face-to-face and digital interactions intended to boost customer engagement, build audiences, and increase sales through an all-inclusive white-labeled SaaS based dashboard and marketing platform. Visit http://www.advicelocal.com for more information.