President
daves@wims.com
As President of Winstar Interactive, Dave Shamberger is responsible for the day-to-day strategy and sales operation. Winstar Interactive media, launched in 1996, offering top media brands site-specific representation.
Dave joined Winstar in August of 2006 from GameDaily, where he served as Director of Eastern Advertising Sales, managing GameDaily's Eastern advertising sales team. In this capacity, Dave managed relationships with many recognized brands and advertising agencies. His contributions as part of the GameDaily Executive team were instrumental in positioning GameDaily for its eventual sale to AOL in the spring of 2006.
Prior to joining GameDaily, Dave founded a vertical advertising rep firm, Saratoga Interactive. In this role he developed and managed a network of 35 video game websites. Before that, he served in senior sales positions with UGO Networks, Redherring Communications, Entrepreneur Magazine, Scholastic Publishing, and Thomas Publishing.
Dave is a graduate of Niagara University, with a Bachelors degree in business. He enjoys time with his wife and 3 children in both New York City and Saratoga Springs, NY.
Vice President/Secretary
jfoley@wims.com
Winstar Interactive was launched in 1996, as a site-specific representation company with online advertising dates back to the early days of the internet. John has been with the company since its inception. Over the years John has developed and produced the internal infrastructure, accounting functions and operations…Positioning Winstar Interactive as the leader in site-specific representation, tailored to each unique publisher.
Prior to joining the Winstar team John worked for six years at Office Depot as Inventory control Manager. Office Depot is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
John is a graduate of Florida State University, with a Political Science degree.
When not at his desk John enjoys going to the beach with his wife and two kids. He also enjoys playing a round of golf.
Vice President/Treasurer
bill.mcentee@mediafinancial.com
In 1994, Bill acquired and operated WCEE-TV in Mt Vernon, IL until 1996 when he sold the station to Paxon Communications. In 1996, he acquired and operated WXTL-AM in Jacksonville, FL, applied to the FCC and was granted a construction permit to improve the signal to 50kw day and 35kw night. Today the station has one of the most powerful AM signals in the Jacksonville market.
In 1997, Bill formed Media Financial Services (MFS), an accounting organization to provide outsourced accounting and financial reporting services to media companies. MFS currently has offices in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Director of Operations & Director of Business Development- Eastern Region
mikep@wims.com
Palmieri joined Winstar in 2008, spearheading the relationship, operations and trafficking for a major interactive financial client. This client experienced record growth and profits in 2010.
Prior to joining Winstar, Michael’s professional career included marketing stints with Dow Industrial members ExxonMobil and American Brands, IT consulting for Ajilon Services and more recently directing the operations and trafficking for a privately held Florida organization.
Michael, a graduate of Ball State University with a Bachelors degree in Marketing and a minor in Communications currently resides in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
Director of Business Development - Western Region
mcrona@wims.com
Mark has spent his professional career developing relationships throughout the Marketing community and has enjoyed particular success utilizing his abilities implementing Marketing Strategies.