Patrick Albano has led sales and marketing for some of the world's largest and most innovative media companies. He is currently Head of Solutions, EMEA at Yahoo, leading a team responsible for working with marketers to deliver solutions across Yahoo's most innovative first-to-market products.

He previously was vice president of global sales at Citizen Sports, a social sports startup that focused on Facebook and smartphone applications and that Yahoo acquired in April 2010. At Citizen Sports, Albano’s team helped define the social-marketing landscape, selling some of the first large-scale, sharable brand integrations within Facebook and iPhone platforms. Prior to Citizen Sports, Albano was the national director of digital sales at Sports Illustrated, focusing the sales team on digital revenue growth, leveraging SI's Internet, mobile, social, VOD, and emerging platforms. Under his leadership, the sales team was ranked the #1 sales organization in the online news and sports category by clients and agencies in the Jack Myers annual survey of Internet professionals. An industry veteran since the late ‘90s, Albano also has held digital sales leadership positions with About.com, InfoUSA.com, and Medsite.com