Ms. Wohl

Michelle Wohl

VP of Marketing & Client Services

Revinate

Michelle Wohl is the VP of Marketing and Client Services at Revinate, a San Francisco-based software company that helps hoteliers take control of their online reputation by using online reviews and social media to learn from and connect with travelers. At Revinate, Ms. Wohl is responsible for marketing, account management, University relations, training and customer support.

With more than fifteen years of technology marketing under her belt, Ms. Wohl has lived through many great bubbles and technology trends. A true dotcom veteran, she started her career in product marketing at GoLive Systems, creators of the first WYSIWYG Web authoring product for the Mac. The company allowed anyone, regardless of HTML experience, to create a Web page was at the forefront of Web technology and was acquired by Adobe in 1999. At Adobe, Ms. Wohl led product marketing for the Web products, and later, Adobe Acrobat.

Passionate about helping people communicate better on the Web, she left Adobe in 2004 to join the first social network, Friendster, as the Director of Marketing. A year later, Ms. Wohl left Friendster to pursue her interest in mobile and joined Nokia as head of Platforms Marketing. Based in Helsinki, Ms. Wohl was responsible for marketing the SmartPhone platform to application developers all over the world. She launched multiple development platforms and saw the creation of thousands of applications, from productivity to Location-based to financial.

But the winters proved too rough for Ms. Wohl and after returning to the US, she joined Sprout as VP of Marketing. Sprout was one of only eight approved Facebook developers at the F8 conference, the launch of Facebook’s development platform. At Sprout, Ms. Wohl worked closely with some of the world’s leading consumer brands such as Disney, Coke and Pepsi to develop social media campaigns and strategies. Now back in her hometown of San Francisco, Ms. Wohl enjoys working with hospitality leaders to harness the power of social media and user-generated content.

Ms. Wohl graduated from Cornell University with a BA in English.

Ms. Wohl can be contacted at 415-290-3707 or michelle@revinate.com

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