Rodney Mayers
"For my first job, I worked as an usher at Brooklyn Academy of Music, where I learned that floor lighting is key to not killing yourself in a really dark theatre."
Rodney Mayers is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Adify Media and oversees business development and media sales operations for Adify Corporation, the platform of choice for vertical network building. Prior to joining Adify, Rodney was the assistant vice president of interactive media for Cox Enterprises. In this role he was responsible for developing and executing on Cox’s internet strategy which resulted in the acquisition of Adify in April of 2008.
Rodney joined Cox in 1999 as the director of planning and product development for its Cox Interactive Media business unit, a local city site network. He later became vice president, business development for the business unit before moving to Cox Enterprises’ corporate development department where he worked with various Cox divisions that represented publishing, broadcasting, cable and internet industries.
Prior to Cox, Rodney worked in a variety of positions at Prodigy Communications Corporation in White Plains, NY and spent his early career in the advertising and broadcasting industry.
Mayers earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Syracuse University and his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He now calls the Bay Area Home.