McDonnell and Eck appointed to top roles at GateHouse's Propel Marketing

Sean McDonnell, chief revenue officer at GateHouse Media New England,
will join Propel Marketing as senior vice president of sales,
effective April 1.

For the past two years, McDonnell has led the GHMNE transformation to
a true multimedia sales force. In his new role at Propel Marketing,
McDonnell will be responsible for Propel sales across all channels -
direct sales, GateHouse local market sales and third-party re-seller
partners. He will work closely with GateHouse publishers and regional
sales leaders to maximize Propel revenues throughout the company.
Propel, based in Quincy, Mass., provides internet marketing solutions
for small to medium sized businesses.

Prior to joining GateHouse, McDonnell was co-founder and president of
ReviNet, a digital start-up focusing on premium network optimization
solutions. He built a partner network of hundreds of local media
properties prior to Pubmatic’s acquisition of Revinet in 2011. Before
launching ReviNet, he led online display sales for Boston.com from
2005 through 2008. He has spent the last 18 years working in both the
traditional and digital advertising space in various sales & sales
management roles.

“Sean’s joining our senior leadership team comes at a critical time,
as we scale Propel to thousands of customers through multiple sales
channels,” Peter Newton, president of GateHouse Ventures, wrote. “While we’ve had
very good growth in our first year+ of operation, we expect our growth
rate to accelerate dramatically over coming months and years. …
Optimizing internal Propel and GateHouse sales efforts, and enabling
partners to successfully sell Propel products, are vital to realizing
our potential.”

In addition to McDonnell new role, effective immediately, Chris Eck
becomes senior vice president/general manager of Propel Marketing. Eck
will be responsible for product, development, operations, training and
finance.

Eck has led the buildup of Propel Marketing from the very inception of
the concept to its current state today, with over 100 staff. He has
done an outstanding job in building a strong value proposition and
operation to deliver that value consistently to customers. Recent
developments such as the launch of our leading-edge responsive design
website service evidence his keen sense of quality and innovation, as
well as the caliber of our highly talented team.

“These changes position us well for an exciting, explosive growth
phase at Propel,” Newton said.