Geoff Hamm on Organizing Your Social Network for Success

In Chapter 9 of 20 in his 2014 Capture Your Flag interview, mobile business executive Geoff Hamm answers "How Do You Use Your Network to Get Help in Making Career and Life Decisions?" Hamm shares how he structures his personal and professional network as a series of rings, with immediate family and best friends at the core. In the ring nearest the core, Hamm includes mentors, bosses, and peers who have been engaged, reliable, supportive when he has asked for help in the past.

Geoff Hamm is a business development executive and VP Strategic Alliances at mobile marketing platform start-up Applovin in San Francisco, CA. Previous to Applovin, Hamm held senior sales management positions at Tapjoy, Scribd, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Orbitz, IAC and Excite where he built deep relationships with advertisers and brands. Hamm graduated from the University of Illinois.