Steve Goldner

As Senior Director of Social Marketing for Ryan Partnership, a division of the Hyper Marketing Inc., Steve is responsible for the social media practice. Under Steve’s leadership, Ryan Partnership provides clients with social and communication strategy, planning, execution, and management while providing measured results and KPIs (key performance indicators). Steve brings 20 years of marketing leadership and management to his role having served in brand marketing, product marketing and management and marketing communications position.

Prior to joining Ryan Partnership, Steve was Senior Director of Social Media at sister agency MediaWhiz. Before leading social media at MediaWhiz, Steve was Director of Social Media for Hachette Filipacchi Media where he deepened audience relationships and successfully executed campaigns for Elle, Elle Décor, Woman’s Day, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Cycle World, and Premiere.com. Steve was instrumental in helping print evolution to digital. At HFM, Steve was a member of the elite Innovation Team that launched a video iPhone and was working on a digital content platform that combined owned media, curated media, and user generated content (UGC) at the time of Hearst acquisition of HFM.

Steve (aka “Social Steve”) is an industry recognized social media thought leader. He has been invited as a guest speaker at numerous conferences and events including presenting at Social Media Week, Association for Corporate Growth, The Executive Forum, and for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce as well as moderating Econsultancy’s Digital Peer Summit social media round tables. He has written articles for a number of online publications including AdAge, iMedia, MediaPost, DigiDay.com and eContentMag.com. In addition, he maintains his own industry blog, the Social Steve Blog and tweets as @SocialSteve.

Steve earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Master of Engineering Management in Marketing of Technology – both from The George Washington University.

Steve lives just outside of New York City with his wife, two children, and dog.