Calton Chan

SVP Sales, North America

Calton Chan brings more than 17 years of online advertising, marketing and sales management experience to his role at Rocket Fuel. Most recently, Chan held the position of vice president of sales at interCLICK, a behavioral online ad network.

Prior to interCLICK, he was managing director at BrightRoll, one of the largest online video advertising networks.  While at BrightRoll, Chan was responsible for expanding the company's East Coast sales and operations, and was instrumental in growing the company's customer base and significantly increasing market share. Prior to BrightRoll, Chan was vice president of sales at ContextWeb, a leading contextual ad network and exchange.

During his time at ContextWeb, Chan was influential in building the sales team throughout north america and creating partnerships with leading digital agencies and advertisers, which helped boost large scale revenue growth for the company.  Prior to ContextWeb, Chan was director, western region sales for The Excite Network (owned by IAC/Interactive Corp.) and director, western region sales for About.com (owned by the New York Times).  Chan started his career in software sales for Autodesk, based in Northern California.

Chan received his bachelor’s degree in molecular and cell biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.