Andy Wiedlin

Andy Wiedlin is BuzzFeed's Chief Revenue Officer and is responsible for leading BuzzFeed’s revenue growth strategy. Since joining BuzzFeed in 2011, Wiedlin grew the company from zero revenue to profitability with over 500 employees. He has built a talented global sales team who works with world class brands to provide unique social advertising programs. During his tenure, no banner ads were harmed or sold at BuzzFeed.

Before joining BuzzFeed, Andy was the SVP of Sales at Huffington Post where he pioneered the idea of social news, built a successful sales team, developed a market strategy and defined social marketing products. He got his start in the social space in 2008 at MySpace as Vice President of Sales. From 2003 to 2008, Wiedlin worked at Yahoo as Vice President of the Northwest Region. Before diving into online in 1999, Wiedlin spent five years with AT&T International/Bell Labs. He spent 10 years working abroad, primarily in Japan and Australia. Andy has a Master’s Degree in Pacific International Affairs (with a focus on Marketing and Japanese Language) from the University of California, San Diego.