Reelio’s Williams is Executive Award Winner

Reelio CTO Ben Williams has been selected as a winner of the prestigious SmartCEO’s Executive Management Award for 2015.  Williams is a co-founder of Reelio, a New York City-based new media company that matches YouTube “creators” and businesses looking for exciting and innovative ways to advertise on the internet.

Williams is one of 40 top New York-area executives chosen for this award by a special committee that weighed the qualifications of more than 100 candidates. The committee says the winners stand out as the best at giving their CEOs the invaluable support needed to make their companies so successful.  The panel notes those being honored provide outstanding contributions both on the front lines and behind the scenes at their firms.

“I’m proud to be honored for all our Reelio Team has accomplished,” Williams says.  “Their unrelenting focus and hard work give me my biggest reward:  getting to go to work excited every day.”

Reelio CEO Pete Borum has high praise for Williams and what he has brought to the company.

“Ben Williams is the rock on which our entire technical organization has been built,” he says.  “Ben inspires confidence in our shareholders, our customers and our team.  With him on our side, anything is possible.”

Thanks to the help of Williams, Reelio had a breakout year in 2014.  The company scored more than a million dollars in seed money and spent much of the year growing its staff and adding clients.  Billed as the “Match.com of brands and creators on YouTube,” Reelio is breaking down the doors of traditional internet advertising by providing businesses a proven alternative to the old-fashioned snippet before a video–  a snippet most people don’t watch.  Instead, Reelio uses its unique methodology to pair YouTube stars–  many with millions of followers–  with firms that want to reach those followers.

Williams is being recognized by one of the top organizations focusing on the needs of company executives in the major financial hubs of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, DC.  SmartCEO’s stated mission is to help educate and inspire the business community through its magazine, events and internet resources.  And its reach is impressive.  With both its online and traditional formats, SmartCEO magazine is read by more than 100,000 C-suite movers and shakers in those key metropolitan areas.

Williams and the other Executive Management Award winners will be honored in a ceremony in Manhattan March 16.

For more information or to schedule an interview, contact

Bill McColl, Media Makers Consulting

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201-362-4993