Sebastian Pawlowski

Lead Marketing and Corporate development for Lastmile Retail and help organizations of all sizes own their local path to purchase through award winning and patent-pending technology and localization services.

Leading strategy and development for a multidisciplinary practice in the politics and advocacy arena. Utilizing patent-pending technology and specialized services, Near Me Politics carries out hyper-localized and intent-based messaging to activate key supporters and voting blocks required to increase civic participation, fundraising and win elections.

Designed and teaching eCRM & Digital Marketing course to second year MBAs @ Kogod School of Business http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/pawlowsk.cfm

Teaching business courses for the BBA program

Teaching digital marketing and business strategy (capstone) courses to undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Business & Economics. http://business.cua.edu/faculty/pawlowski.cfm

Previously served as Group Director, Digital Media & Acquisition for Sprint (NYSE: S) where he had full P&L over digital media and in-sourced the operation to meet acquisition targets. Prior to Sprint, he held executive positions in political / advocacy marketing managing a digital media agency and working issues for various causes (small businesses, education, healthcare). Other roles include leading Marketing Operations (digital, events, creative, technology) for ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI) and at Amtrak where he founded the eCRM organization and drove digital marketing. For the last 20+ years, Sebastian's work has taken him into the Fortune 100, travel and hospitality, telecommunications, financial services, the political and advocacy sphere and academia. He’s also worked in entrepreneurial settings including two startups, one the streaming media arm for Young & Rubicam and Burson Marsteller. Sebastian graduated from The Catholic University of America with a BA in Politics and later The American University with an MA in International Affairs and an MBA while serving as a Graduate Fellow. His studies also took him abroad to the Universidad Católica Argentina and the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain. Sebastian has served as a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Hearing Loss Association of America and continues to teach marketing courses for local business schools.

Fortunate to speak at industry conferences related to e-tail, digital marketing, e-commerce, CRM, loyalty, mobile, travel/hospitality, direct and interactive marketing, emerging payments, etc. Have recently spoken at DigiDay, Destination CRM, eTail East / West and the Mobile Shopping Summit.

Specialized in international political economy and information systems (Thesis on the comparison of Ireland and Argentina's SME electronics sectors and the economic/political/governmental forces behind growth into information-based economies)