Victoria Ransom

Webit Speaker, Founder & CEO of Wildfire

• Digital Marketing and Innovation Stage

Victoria has been an entrepreneur since her early twenties and has developed three companies. As founder & CEO of Wildfire (www.wildfireapp.com), Victoria led the company to profitability in just one year and has built the company to tens of thousands of customers, over 250 employees, and eight offices worldwide. Clients include major brands and agencies such as Facebook, Pepsi, Unilever, Sony, AT&T, Ogilvy, Publicis, and Digitas. Wildfire is a two-time winner of the fbFund; investors include Summit, Facebook, Accel Partners, and the Founder's Fund. Victoria has been featured in several publications including The New York Times, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal. She was named one of the '25 Women to Watch in Tech' for 2011 & 2010 and was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for New Zealand. Victoria has spoken at numerous events including Le Web, SXSW, OMMA, AlwaysOn, Ad:tech, and Web 2.0.

Wildfire Overview:

Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Wildfire is the leader in social media marketing software and the only social media marketing company to have received an investment from Facebook’s fbFund. Our patent-pending technology allows large brands, small businesses and agencies to easily create their own attractive, branded social campaigns (e.g. sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, coupons and more), build and manage social pages, monitor and communicate with their social audience, and measure the performance of their own and their competitors’ social media marketing. Intuitive, streamlined and affordable, our software is simple enough for even the least tech-savvy business manager to use and flexible enough to suit the needs of the most creative marketer or advertising agency. Wildfire serves tens of thousands of companies, including Facebook, Amazon, Ogilvy and Target, and has offices in Redwood City, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Munich and Singapore.