Jim Caruso

Jim is the CIO at Elevate responsible for bringing new technology, data, and marketing solutions to our clients. Under his leadership Elevate will expand its capabilities around data, insights and create a proprietary software platform that will make our teams and clients more efficient and effective. In addition, the team will be focused on packaging and ‘productizing’ our offerings to the market. Prior to joining Elevate, Jim was the Co-Founder and CEO of Apollo Program, a software company that provides businesses with powerful intelligence on people to make marketing more informed, accurate, and ultimately more effective that was acquired by Stagwell in July of 2022. Prior to Apollo, Jim joined Anomaly in June 2016 as their first Chief Product Officer to create a product that harnesses the true power of data to fuel creative advertising. At Anomaly he led the development and productization of their analytics, technology, data, and software strategy. Previously, he served as SVP of Product & Client Strategy at Varick Media, an industry leading media trading desk. He was responsible for guiding the strategy and development of the technology, sales planning, marketing, business development and account management functions. Jim graduated with an MBA from the University of Michigan (Ross) and Summa Cum Laude with Honors from Montclair State University, after which he was a founding partner of a startup which developed enterprise social & relationship management software for large, multinational corporations. Upon exiting, he utilized his entrepreneurial experience along with his product knowledge to begin his career developing software and technology products across various verticals, including government compliance, higher education, and most recently digital media and advertising. Previously, Jim was the head of Product Development at Undertone where he led the development for their ad serving and media buying platform. Jim has also founded four startups: MobileTag, a mobile gaming platform, Snapit App, an e-gifting mobile application, Travelyst, a mobile UCG-led trip planner and ATX, an Amazon commerce agency.