David M. Hughes - Founder and Chairman, AdMax Local

David Hughes is the Founder and Chairman of AdMax Local, a SaaS platform and services company focused on providing hyper-local advertising services and results for SMBs and local advertisers. Hughes is also the Chief Growth Officer for ForwardPMX, a multi-national Data and Performance Marketing Agency. Hughes was the co-founder and CEO of The Search Agency (TSA) which was acquired by ForwardPMX in late 2019.

Hughes graduated from Harvard Business School and sits on several non-profit and corporate Boards.

Ben Gibson - Global Managing Director

Ben Gibson has worked in digital marketing for over 20 years, pioneering new strategies from the client, agency and technology provider sides of the business. Ben has helped leading international brands with their digital marketing strategies during positions at The Search Agency, lastminute.com, LookSmart, The Technology Works and The Search Works. In 2009, Ben joined The Search Agency to launch its European arm. During his tenure, the organization has grown to be one of Europe's leading digital agencies and technology providers for both national and local campaigns, working with such brands as Yellow Pages, the BBC and SLH. In February 2013, Ben moved to The Search Agency's headquarters in Los Angeles to lead the global development of AdMax Local, the world's first fully automated local digital marketing platform that enables businesses to run high quality and profitable local search campaigns driven to responsive websites with SEO, tracking and conversion optimization built-in. Ben has launched businesses and led teams across the globe in Europe, Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Patrick Hodgson - Vice President, Marketing

Patrick has 15+ years of digital marketing experience across sports, non-profit, esports, local, and eCommerce, defining full-funnel marketing strategies across websites, search engines, email, social, and display advertising that cause increases in revenue growth. He joined AML in February 2020 and heads up partner support for enterprise client accounts. Before coming to AML, Patrick worked at Vision Venture Partners, Allison + Partners, and the Tiger Woods Foundation. He holds an MBA degree from Pepperdine University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). Patrick is also equipped with a series of digital marketing certifications, including Mead Lead Trainer, Meta Blueprint Media Planning, Meta Blueprint Media Buying, Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Google DV360.

Marla Husovsky - Director, Client Services

Marla has over 17 years of experience in the digital marketing space with over 10 years of people leaderhip experience. She has worked with clients in the automotive, law, retail, mobile phone, home services, non-profit, banking, fitness, pharmaceutical, wine and education industries. She has developed full-funnel digital strategies in search, social, ecommerce and display to help clients increase their revenue and client growth. She joined AML in August of 2022 as the client services director and currently oversees the client services team here in the US. She holds a BA from Cal State Fullerton along with multiple digital media certifications in Google Ads, Analytics and Bing Ads.

Gurpreet Singh - Associate Director Product Development

Gurpreet has 14 years of experience in building engineering and product teams and leading them to deliver customer focused SAAS solutions based on actionable insights and customer feedback. Gurpreet has been associated with AdMax Local since its inception and heads up product development & engineering departments, who also manages the India office of AdMax Local located in Bangalore. He has an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Anna University.