Brian Berner, Spotify's Head of Global Advertising Sales & Partnerships, is an accomplished media and technology executive with over 15 years of experience in the world of advertising and sales. He is currently the Head of North American Advertising Sales at Spotify, where he leads nearly 200 employees across management, sales and sales support in all matters related to advertising revenue across the US and Canada.
Brian had the unique experience of definitively discovering his lifelong career path as a young college student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studied management information systems and information hierarchies, but it was really his job selling advertisements in the school newspaper that helped Berner realize his passion, which led to his decision to pursue a career in advertising rather than investment banking.
After graduating in 2003, Brian Berner began working at an email marketing firm that developed into MySpace, becoming the social media site’s first salesperson. He q
