Katz 360 Names New Sales Execs, Campaign Mgr.

Katz 360, the digital sales arm of the Katz Media Group, has hired Andy Slater as VP of digital agency sales in New York and John Fraser as senior account director in Atlanta. In addition, Annie Leitenberg has been named the new campaign manager in New York.

As VP of digital agency sales, Slater will manage his own account list in New York, as well as the entire digital agency business for Katz 360 Directors across the country. He has spent more than 17 years in advertising sales and has held key offline positions at McGavren Guild, Infinity Broadcasting, Emmis Communications and Clear Channel.

He also was East Coast sales manager for Orbitz.com and VP of advertising sales for SoundClick.com. Most recently, Slater managed regional and national sales teams as senior director of sales for Move.com/Realtor.com. He is a graduate of LSU with a degree in journalism.

As senior account director in Atlanta, Fraser will oversee online sales for the Southeast region of the country. He most recently was a senior account manager for Lincoln Financial Media in Atlanta and a part of the sales team at WQXI-AM.

Before that, he worked as a senior account executive at Google on various online sales channels, including audio, video, TV, search, display and mobile. Fraser’s prior offline media experience includes Clear Channel Radio Sales, which is part of the Katz Media Group. He also held positions at McMaster-Carr Supply Co. and Miller Brewing Co. earlier in his career. Fraser is a graduate of Princeton University.

In her new role within Katz 360’s Ad Ops group, Leitenberg will be responsible for managing and optimizing Katz 360’s various channels of online inventory to ensure digital customers receive the maximum return on their investments. She began her career in radio at Clear Channel Philadelphia working in the promotions department while attending college at Temple University.

She also interned at Global Radio in London during a study abroad program. Leitenberg joined Katz Group Sales in 2009 as a sales assistant.

Katz 360 leads online sales for Katz Media, selling four digital platforms under the Katz Online brand: digital audio, mobile, database segmentation and display. These products have been built by aggregating the digital inventory of Katz Media Group’s radio and television publishers along with some of the largest publishers on the Web.