Baglan Nurhan Rhymes, SVP of Revenue & Ad Operations at AnchorFree joins TABC as an Advisor.

TABC proudly welcomes Baglan Nurhan Rhymes to its Advisory Board. We are grateful to have Baglan Rhymes join our team and lead us as we go into our second decade of presence in Silicon Valley.

Baglan Rhymes has been instrumental in building, shaping, and branding some of the hottest technology start-ups in Silicon Valley and she is a thought leader on the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation in technology and digital media with an emphasis on digital advertising and monetization strategy.

As a Managing Partner and Senior Vice President of Revenue & Ad Operations for secure browser provider AnchorFree, Ms. Rhymes created the global revenue, sales, and business development strategies to help propel the company from a start-up to the world’s largest consumer VPN, evaluated at $300M, in just four years. She built the operational infrastructure from scratch, played a key role in raising $50M in Series C funding, and launched four new products that currently account for 98% of the company’s revenues. Her client roster includes Symantec, McAfee, Google, Ask, Yahoo, Download.com, and government clients Voice of America and Radio Farda and she is currently leading the charge to expand AnchorFree to the Middle East.

Previously, as Vice President, Media for global online advertising agency LSF Interactive, Ms. Rhymes created the company’s inaugural online media strategy and built departments focused on digital strategy, online sales, media planning, and buying and she developed advertising campaigns for top luxury, fashion, lifestyle, media, and technology brands including Waterford/Wedgwood,  Ghirardelli Chocolates, Yves Saint Laurent Couture, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, Sergio Rossi, Lancôme Canada, Clarins, Thierry Mugler,  Korres USA, France 24, Honeywell SM, and Radio France Int. In addition, she masterminded a public service video campaign, Why You Should Vote: Citizen’s Cry that was recognized with YouTube’s Most Viewed News and Politics Video of All Time award.

Prior to LSF, Ms. Rhymes was the Media & Ad Operations Director for Silicon Valley digital content solutions company YouSendIt.com where she built the advertising department from the ground up and successfully grew sales revenues. Her impressive client list included Monster, Ford, Verizon, and Vonage. Earlier e-commerce experience includes operations and engineering roles at New York companies Operative, and Halex Associates.