Appoints Vincent Lim, Head of Talent; and Richard Foster as UK Managing Director
San Francisco, CA – LiveRamp, an Acxiom® company (NASDAQ: ACXM) and leading provider of data onboarding and connectivity services, named former Google head of university recruiting Vincent Lim as head of talent, and appointed industry veteran Richard Foster as UK managing director. Both executives will be tasked with aggressively scaling LiveRamp to meet rising demand for open services that connect the digital marketing ecosystem.
Lim will be responsible for talent strategies that ensure LiveRamp continues to attract and retain extraordinary people to support the company’s rapid expansion as part of the Acxiom Connectivity division which experienced 300% annual revenue growth in its fiscal 2016 first quarter. Joining on the heels of the recent LiveRamp Customer Link launch, Lim will oversee LiveRamp’s organizational growth while maintaining the company’s culture of ownership, trust and collaboration.
Prior to LiveRamp, Lim was head of university recruiting at Google, where he led a national team of university outreach specialists and grew campus hires by three-fold over a four-year period. Before that, Lim served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company.
Richard Foster will join the LiveRamp team to establish LiveRamp’s market presence in the UK and will be tasked with creating demand for LiveRamp’s suite of data connectivity services as well as forming strategic partnerships with top marketing technology and services businesses.
Foster joins the company from Intelligent Optimisations, where he was chief commercial officer. He previously launched and scaled several digital marketing businesses in Europe during his tenure as European managing director at DMP provider Krux, UK managing director for privacy leader TRUSTe and UK managing director for DMP / DSP provider Audience Science.
“Premium talent is drawn to LiveRamp due to the strength of our products, vision, and culture,” said Travis May, president and GM of LiveRamp. “The addition of Richard and Vincent to the LiveRamp leadership team will help accelerate our rapid expansion and address explosive demand for data connectivity services.”
About LiveRamp
LiveRamp connects more than 200 digital marketing platforms and data providers. We help marketers eliminate data silos and unlock greater value from the tools they use every day. By onboarding and unifying customer data across disparate systems, we provide the connectivity brands need to reach consumers across channels and measure the impact of marketing on sales. LiveRamp is an Acxiom company. For more information, visit LiveRamp.com.
About Acxiom
Acxiom is an enterprise data, analytics and software-as-a-service company that uniquely fuses trust, experience and scale to fuel data-driven results. For over 45 years, Acxiom has been an innovator in harnessing the most important sources and uses of data to strengthen connections between people, businesses and their partners. Utilizing a channel and media neutral approach, we leverage cutting-edge, data-oriented products and services to maximize customer value. Every week, Acxiom powers more than a trillion transactions that enable better living for people and better results for our 7,000+ global clients. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom Corporation.
