Amobee appoints regional managing director

SINGAPORE - Mobile advertising solutions company Amobee has today announced the appointment of Grant Watts to managing director for the Asia-Pacific region.

Grant Watts will head up Amobee for APAC
Grant Watts will head up Amobee for APAC

Based out of Amobee’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, Watts will be responsible for spearheading the continued growth and development of Amobee’s global business and operations throughout the region.

Watts joins Amobee with over 18 years of industry experience. Prior to Amobee, he was most recently group CEO at DMS Group Asia, where he pioneered the building of Southeast Asia’s largest ad network, Admax.

“We are pleased to have Grant join the Amobee team,” said Mark Strecker, COO of Amobee. “Grant brings a wealth of experience and industry leadership, which helps us accelerate our growth in the Asia-Pacific region and work closely with our partners enabling them to tap into the massive mobile advertising growth potential of this region.”

"Amobee is a valued strategic partner whose mobile advertising platform enhances our capability to monetise advertising across all our channels including web, applications, SMS and MMS," said Minette Navarrete, head of the new business group at Globe Telecoms in the Philippines.“We are looking forward to working with Grant and the Amobee team to continue advancing our leadership in mobile advertising and related new service models."

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