Clare O'Brien
Accela Communications

As Vice President of Sales, Clare O'Brien provides strategic guidance and tactical skill to strengthen customer and partner relationships. In this role, Clare is responsible for leading her team in identifying and creating new opportunities that deliver business value for customers. She has been with Accela Communications' since its inception and during that time has led a sales team that has turned in record sales growth, turning the company into a rapidly growing and profitable enterprise.

During her tenure, Clare has evolved the use of B2B webcasting from an unfamiliar marketing tool to a critical element of a successful media strategy and has formed many strategic relationships with industry leaders and advertising agencies. She previously spent more than nine years at Network World, an IDG company, selling both print and online media. Clare is a member of the BIMA (Boston Interactive Media Association) Executive Board, an organization whose mission is to create valuable educational and social settings, uniting those committed to the advancement of interactive advertising and marketing.