Ben Straley
CEO
Meteor Solutions

Ben Straley is CEO of Meteor Solutions. He has spent the last 13 years of his career managing and leading marketing teams and business for venture-backed startups and large, publicly traded companies. As CEO of Meteor Technologies, he manages the company and secures key partnerships. Currently Meteor’s clients include Microsoft, Alaska Airlines, AT&T, Disney and many other high-profile brands.

Ben began his online marketing career in 1997 as a producer for Starwave, where he worked on online advertising and marketing promotions on ESPN.com and ABCNews.com for major brands including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Gatorade, and Pizza Hut. In 1998, Ben moved from the creative services team to spearhead the development of ESPN.com’s online marketing and e-commerce systems and lead product management of Go Network’s registration and billing web services platform. In 2001, Ben joined Santa Clara-based Sanctum Corp. to oversee product marketing of AppScan, the company’s leading suite of Web application security assessment and monitoring tools.

In the spring of 2003, Ben was recruited to lead e-commerce and Internet business development for a $1.3B global kitchen and housewares company. In this role, Ben led a 20-person e-commerce team, oversaw B2B and B2C e-commerce operations and fulfillment, coordinated the expansion in the UK and Australia, and signed partnerships with Amazon and Target. In the summer of 2005, Ben returned to his native Seattle to lead marketing for Ignition-backed Judy’s Book, a site where community members around the country shared advice and recommendations about local businesses and activities.

Ben holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, a BA with distinction from Colorado College, is the curriculum developer and lead instructor at the UW Extension’s Advanced Interactive Marketing program, and is Chair-Elect of the Board of Trustees at the Seattle Children’s Home, Washington State’s oldest children’s charity.