Speaker Bio

Shashi Bellamkonda Speaker and Digital Marketing Expert is the Vice. President, Digital Marketing at The Bozzuto Group whose mission statement is " the best real estate company in America." Bellamkonda is also the Adjunct faculty member of Georgetown University. After several years of enriching experience in the hospitality industry which also included being a chef, Shashi transformed his hobby of computers and technology to his career working in areas like Customer service, Program Management, Digital marketing and Social Media. Shashi Bellamkonda was honored by the Washington Business Journal's 2012 Washington Minority Business Leader award. he was previously featured in Washingtonian's Top 100 Tech Titans list in the Community and Thought leadership category of the Washington Tech Titans list : http://bit.ly/ttshashi and the Washington Business Journal called him the Social Listener http://bit.ly/wbjshashi. Other media mentions include Washington Post, WUSA9, NY1 TV, Webmaster Radio, BlogTalk Radio, Tech BisNow, Capitol Communicator, and many other digital and media publications. He has co-authored chapters in two books also been featured in 15 Books on marketing and social media.

Shashi is passionate about helping small business and has spoken on Small Business and social media tools at conferences like SXSW, IABC, PRSA, Mid-Atlantic Summit, MarketingProfs and Affiliate Summit. Blogging is a passion and along with http://blog.networksolutions.com he blogs at http://www.shashi.coo and writes for The Washington Business Journal blog, examiner.com, and for techcocktail.com. Shashi speaks at national and regional small business, communications and marketing conferences. Few examples are SXSW, PRSA Digital Impact 2010, Optimization Summit, Affiliate Summit, Affcon, All Services Social Media Council, New Comm Forum (SNCR.org) 2009, American Independent Writers, NVTC,Tech Council of Maryland, Greater Baltimore Technology Council, DC Chamber of Commerce, and IABC.


Shashi has a Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Public Administration, Sociology and Economics, Osmania University (India) and a bachelor's degree, Hotel Management, Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology (India) along with a Diploma in Business Management, Indira Gandhi Open University (India) and has done Essentials of Marketing coursework at University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

He is on advisory boards for SCORE and the Capital Communicator and also mentors start-ups, entrepreneurs and Small business. Some of the companies who have benefited are JetJoose, Kikscore, Markerly, Infusd, Hy.ly and Inwiter.

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Washington Business Journal | Washingtonian Magazine Tech Titan 2009 & 2011 | Small Business Influencer 2011 Champion | Winner of the 2012 Minority Business Leader Awards| AmEx Open Forum | Featured in 15 Books
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