Christopher Goumas

Christopher Goumas serves as Access 360 Media's vice president of retail development, responsible for creating, developing and growing the company's partner and retail strategies.

A seasoned retail sales executive, Goumas brings a wealth of experience to help grow Access 360 Media's retail business and partner roster. He comes to Access 360 Media from Premier Retail Networks, the leading provider of retail media systems that enhance customer shopping experience and increase the retailer's basket size. During his tenure, he served as director of retail development, where he developed teen and entertainment markets with sales increases of more than 20 percent for various channels.

Prior to Premier Retail Networks, Goumas was vice president of sales, marketing and operations for Ideas.com, a former software provider that enabled Global 1000 companies to capture and manage ideas and innovation through an e-marketplace for public ideas and an ASP model for employee innovation, where he sourced sales opportunities with Coca-Cola, Nokia, Compaq and Boeing.

The bulk of Goumas' career was spent as president and CEO of Soccer Sports, Inc., a specialty sporting goods retailer/manufacturer/wholesaler catering to teens and young adults. During his 20-year tenure, he recruited a top-notch executive team, directed all sales and marketing activities, and negotiated more than 500 vendor and supplier contracts. He pioneered OEM advertising participation in the soccer specialty catalog industry and developed and executed a gorilla marketing/sales program during the 1994 World Cup.

Goumas holds a B.A. in Social Science/Business from the University of California, Berkeley and has been a guest lecturer for entrepreneurship classes at the Haas School of Business.