Advisory Board Member Profile 2018
Simon Heseltine
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ForRent.com
VP of Search Areas of Expertise
Big Data & Marketing
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Simon Heseltine is the Vice President of Search at the CoStar Group, Inc., helping drive brand awareness and traffic to one of the nation’s top apartment rental sites. In September 2017 his team at ForRent.com won the award for Best Use of Content, and received a “Highly Commended” for In House Team of the Year at The Drum’s 2017 US Search Awards. He currently writes for Forbes, and is part of the Forbes Real Estate Council.
His past experience includes running Global SEO for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading the award winning Audience Development team at AOL (“In House Team of the Year” 2014 – US Search Awards), and even a stint on the agency side working with multi-national e-commerce / publishing / non-profit sites, and a 5 year stint as an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University. Simon is a frequent speaker / trainer / moderator at conferences around the world on a variety of online marketing topics. He has a BA (Hons) from the University of Humberside, and a Masters in IT from Virginia Tech |