AI media company Blackwood Seven today announced two new appointments to its leadership team. Nick Stoltz, a 10-year marketing veteran most recently at MarketShare, joins Blackwood Seven as Chief Operating Officer, North America. In addition, Stanlei Bellan, with more than 15 years of media and strategic planning experience from GroupM's MEC and Ogilvy, joins as General Manager, West Coast. Both will be reporting into Mark Zamuner, CEO, North America at Blackwood Seven.

"Our goal is to transform the global media supply chain and provide high value software applications to our clients and improve upon transparency in the industry," said Mark Zamuner, CEO, North America at Blackwood Seven. "In order to be the best, we must hire the best. Nick and Stanlei have proven track records that will be pivotal in advancing our SaaS product to customers in North America."

Stoltz joins Blackwood Seven with a decade of experience in supporting and creating success for growing companies, teams and products through a combination of leadership, strategic vision and marketing operations. Prior to Blackwood Seven, he served as Associate Managing Director at MarketShare, a marketing and analytics company and leader in cloud-based software solutions.

Stanlei Bellan joins Blackwood Seven with more than 15 years of experience in a number of marketing and business leadership positions at GroupM's MEC, eHarmony, MediaContacts (Havas) and OgilvyInteractive (WPP) in the US and Brazil. In his new role, Bellan is responsible for managed services and client relationships to ensure the success of Blackwood Seven's sales, marketing and service initiatives in North America.

"I think Blackwood Seven represents a tremendous opportunity to build upon a broad foundation of solutions and value that the company is delivering to a large base of global customers," said Stoltz. "As we expand our product and services footprint, I look forward to continuing to drive customer success and performance across the value chain within North America."

"Blackwood Seven is committed to maintaining its level of excellence at the senior most level," said Zamuner. "The addition of high-level expertise will help the company deliver on its vision to take the marketing supply chain to new heights, creating a better experience for everyone involved."

About Blackwood Seven

Blackwood Seven brings artificial intelligence to media planning. With its proprietary media platform, the company calculates each client's "media effect formula", which allows attribution of all channels –online such as search, YouTube and Facebook as well as offline such as TV, print and OOH. This algorithm optimises the media mix and predicts an exact forecast of expected results, in real time. Blackwood Seven has 175 employees in Munich, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, New York and Barcelona. For more information please visit www.blackwoodseven.com