Kate Burns

Vice President & Managing Director - Europe , Bebo

As Vice President & Managing Director, Europe, Kate Burns strengthens Bebo’s Senior Management Team following on from AOL’s acquisition of the company and its reformation as the centerpiece of AOL’s newly created People Networks business unit. In her role, Ms Burns takes overall responsibility for driving Bebo’s business in the UK and Europe.

Previously Burns was Managing Director of Dailymotion UK where she had overall responsibility for directing Dailymotion in the UK, including growing the user base to increase visitor traffic and add more user-generated and official content to the site, as well as building an advertising sales operation and creating commercial partnerships with brands and advertising agencies.

Kate Burns has played a leading role in the development of the UK’s digital media industry for over a decade with experience of launching and leading several businesses to success including Google and Doubleclick.

She joined Google in 2001 as its first employee outside the US and went on to develop the company’s most profitable and fastest growing, region rising to become Director, UK, Ireland and Benelux. At Google, Kate pioneered a new sales structure that was adopted globally and built a significant team to localise and promote new products.  She left to offer consultancy services to internet businesses such as SearchRev, Signature, AdLink and buy.at.

Prior to joining Google, Kate was Pan-European Sales Director for Altavista and before that she spent three years at Doubleclick joining as their first sales person in the UK.  She has also worked for Ziff Davis and News International.

Kate has also endeavored in launching her own ventures such as building Ibiza’s first holistic, five star retreat.