Paul Kontonis

Paul Kontonis is Chief Marketing Officer at WHOSAY, the largest and most trusted influence marketer in the world. He is responsible for overseeing all of the the company’s marketing, communications, social media and editorial strategy. WHOSAY is a Viacom company.

WHOSAY powers influence marketing campaigns for brands across all verticals and utilizes every level of celebrity and influencer to deliver measurably superior results compared to other social and mobile advertising solutions.

Kontonis is a 25-year digital media veteran with an industry leading expertise in the B2B marketing, branding, content marketing, and the cross-platform video distribution and monetization of original digital content.

Formerly, Kontonis served as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Digiday Media, managing marketing across the media brands of Digiday, Glossy, Custom and Tradestreaming (now Tearsheet).

Prior to Digiday, he served as Senior Vice President, Strategy at Collective Digital Studio (now Studio71), a multi-platform digital entertainment company and multi-channel network (MCN). Before Collective Digital Studio, Kontonis was Vice President, Group Director, Brand Content at Digitas. At Digitas, where he helped establish the Digital Content NewFronts.

He has also served as the President of the Global Online Video Association, an industry trade group representing media networks and video platforms and Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television. Kontonis holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Psychology from New York University.