• Video clip from Monaco's guest TV appearance on ZDTV's, "Silicon Spin," television show
  • Audio clip from Monaco's radio interview with Rick Dees from "Rick Dees and The Weekly Top 40" syndicated radio program
  • Audio clip from The Brand Show's special guest, Stephen Monaco, on "Buzz Marketing."

Stephen Monaco
A proven winner with an extensive history of successful performance.

For 20+ years, Stephen Monaco has been known and well-respected for his strong acumen as a senior-level marketing and management executive in the high tech sector. He is an excellent leader who serves as a mentor to executive management, possesses extremely powerful intellectual ability, remarkable creativity and great vision.

Mr. Monaco has the charisma and working style that evokes confidence and creates clarity of purpose in the executive team and focus throughout the organization. He is an extremely effective communicator and negotiator with very high standards of integrity, honesty and ethical conduct and is very well respected as a strategic thinker with a wide breadth of knowledge and wisdom who achieves extraordinary results.

Over the past twenty years, Monaco has served as a Director on numerous corporate boards and on several advisory boards.

Today, Monaco is an Executive-Level Marketing expert providing strategic corporate and functional marketing services senior executives, officers and directors on corporate boards at various high tech and consumer product companies in North America and Europe in the following sectors: utilities software, electronic software distribution, paid Internet search, Web analytics, e-commerce, security software, Internet content, direct marketing, entertainment, mergers & acquisitions, alternative energy, disaster recovery, etc. Clients have included: Element 5 / Digital River, Symantec Corporation, Quarterdeck, Microsoft, No Fear, BTS Mergers and Acquisitions, ServiceMaster Catastrophe and Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, just to name a few.

During the period of 1986 to 1999, Monaco held the positions of co-CEO and Vice President of Marketing, Chief Marketing Officer; and Executive Consultant for Datastorm Technologies, Inc. – a leading developer and publisher in the highly competitive fields of data communications, remote and Internet software. Monaco's creative marketing prowess is the driving force behind the world's best-selling PC data communications software of all time, the software mega-brand, ProComm Plus. Monaco defined company strategies and successfully built Datastorm from raw start-up, led the company through 40 consecutive profitable quarters of growth to $50 million in annual revenue, and its acquisition by a publicly-traded company. While at the helm in at Datastorm, Monaco led a team of over 300 employees in the United States and Europe. In addition, Monaco simultaneously held the position of Managing Director at the company's affiliate, Datastorm Technologies, Ltd. in Cambridge, England.

In his early career, Mr. Monaco held marketing positions at Warner Bros. Television, International TV Distribution in Burbank, California and Creative Communications Group in Dallas, Texas.

Stephen Monaco is frequently interviewed by the press and has appeared on television and radio programs, and in the print news media a number of times. He previously contributed editorial to Chicago's Midwest Business in his entrepreneurial column entitled, "Show Me What's Next" and currently writes a column addressing executive-level marketing management issues called, "If You Mean Business..." for Marketing Industry Newswire in Los Angeles.

Monaco has guest lectured to MBA marketing and entrepreneurship classes at the University of Missouri and at the Keller School of Management in Los Angeles. His successful pricing strategies from Datastorm Technologies are utilized as examples in the accompanying Instructor's Resource Manual to Philip Kotler's graduate-level college text book, "Marketing Management-Eleventh Edition."

As an undergraduate, Stephen attended the University of Missouri and graduated on the Dean's List from the University of Wales - Cardiff in the United Kingdom with a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing and eBusiness.

Monaco is listed in the 2005-2006 Edition of National Register's "Who's Who" in Executive Professionals; and in the 1999 Encyclopedia Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons as a Marketing Expert.