Skip Shean, Marketing and Advertising

Hi, I'm Skip Shean. I look forward to hearing from you.

Skip Shean's Bio:

Skip Shean has excelled in a number of different industries. Eight years in operational management consulting; twelve years in online stock & options brokerage marketing. Currently consulting to businesses on their lead generation, social media, and other online marketing efforts.

MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2001. Concentrations in finance, strategy, and entrepreneurship. An experienced, creative executive who thinks strategically and follows through tactically. Enthusiastic and team driven. A leader.

Skip Shean's Experience:

Founder & CEO at 16Wells, LLC
2011 - Present | Chicago
16Wells helps finserv companies, publishers and content creators drive value from their work, using the best practices in online marketing and search engine optimization combined with a data- and results-centric approach.
VP, Marketing & Business Development at tradeMONSTER
2008 - 2011
Head of Marketing at tradeMONSTER, an innovative online brokerage firm at www.trademonster.com. Responsible for all marketing, sales, PR, and business development in rapidly growing online brokerage. * Retained ad agency and other strategic marketing vendor partners, defined strong brand positioning and identity, and successfully challenged entrenched brands optionsXpress, ThinkOrSwim, E*TRADE, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade and Charles Schwab. * Hired marketing team and built all marketing channels from scratch, including search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), online advertising, affiliate, live and online events. * Led PR efforts, hired PR agency, obtained coverage by all leading financial publications and leading bloggers, including the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, USA Today, and others. * Identified and evaluated partnership opportunities, consummating dozens of deals resulting in thousands of new tradeMONSTER accounts.
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development at optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.
May 2005 - August 2008
Responsible for identification, negotiation, and delivery of creative business opportunities, including transactions, licensing, and partnerships for an innovative, fast-growing online brokerage firm. I've been responsible for developing effective strategic partnerships and extending use of optionsXpress' trading platform by financial market participants and exchanges the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and International Securities Exchange. Sydicated elements of the optionsXpress website to highly trafficked and relevant financial websites, and extended our API program to offer optionsXpress account data and trading to third-party software and platforms. Responsible for all exhibitors and speakers at our principal annual customer event, optionsXpo.
Product Manager at E*TRADE Financial
February 2004 - May 2005
Product Manager for options and futures products, including equity and index derivatives trading on the CME, CBOT, CBOE, Chicago Futures Exchange, ISE, BOX, PCX, PHLX and AMEX exchanges.
Managing Partner at Wexford Partners, Inc.
July 2001 - February 2004
Management consulting to small, medium and large companies on a variety of operational, IT, and strategic projects.
Engagement Manager, Strategic Accounts at Starpoint Solutions
May 2000 - July 2001
Responsible for managing multiple IT consulting projects with some of the company's largest customers, leading development of custom web-based applications for Fortune 100-sized companies. Also responsible for customer and project profit & loss and the sales of additional projects.
Manager at Charter Consulting, Inc.
July 1997 - May 2000
Management consulting to large financial services companies on a variety of operational projects. Cost reduction, margin enhancement, operational efficiencies, business process reengineering.
National Account Manager at CCC Information Services, Inc.
October 1995 - July 1997
Sales and customer service of software and market data to insurance companies' claims operations around the country. Promoted three times in first twelve months with company and served several of the nation's largest insurance companies.
Special Agent at Northwestern Mutual
February 1993 - October 1995
Financial Planner, Insurance Agent, and Series 7/63 registered broker.
Insititutional Fixed Income Sales at The Chicago Corporation
1992 - 1994
Sales & Trading of Fixed Income Securities, including US Treasuries, Agencies, Mortgage Backeds and CMOs.

Skip Shean's Education:

The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
1998 – 2001
MBA
Concentration: Finance, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship
Baylor University
1987 – 1991
BA
Concentration: History, Journalism
Activities: Lacrosse
Hinsdale Central
1982 – 1984

Skip Shean's Interests & Activities:

Marketing, marathon running, family time , golf, skiing, photography

Skip Shean

Marketing Consulting | Marketing and Advertising

Hi, I'm Skip Shean. I look forward to hearing from you.

Skip Shean's Bio:

Skip Shean's Experience:

Founder & CEO at 16Wells, LLC

VP, Marketing & Business Development at tradeMONSTER

Vice President, Marketing & Business Development at optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.

Product Manager at E*TRADE Financial

Managing Partner at Wexford Partners, Inc.

Engagement Manager, Strategic Accounts at Starpoint Solutions

Manager at Charter Consulting, Inc.

National Account Manager at CCC Information Services, Inc.

Special Agent at Northwestern Mutual

Insititutional Fixed Income Sales at The Chicago Corporation

Skip Shean's Education:

The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Baylor University

Hinsdale Central

Skip Shean's Interests & Activities: