Anton Konikoff



Founder & CEO, Acronym Media Inc.
Anton E. Konikoff is the Founder and CEO of Acronym Media, a Top 10 Search Agency located on the 55th Floor of the Empire State Building in New York City. Anton has built Acronym Media from a start-up to a global search marketing agency with operations in New York, Raleigh, San Diego, and Singapore.
In the 1990s, Anton pioneered and built an award-winning e-commerce and online marketing operation at Lydall Inc. (NYSE:LDL). On the agency side, Anton served as VP, Online Marketing at Healthology, Inc., driving the company growth that led to eventual sale to iVillage (now part of NBC Universal/GE).
His expertise spans such areas as search engine optimization (SEO), paid search, contextual marketing, usability/conversion enhancement, and search analytics. He has been a keen observer, an innovator, and a thought-leader in the SEM space since the industry’s early days in 1995. Anton is active in DMA, AMA, and SEMPO and is often featured as a speaker at Search Engine Strategies, Ad:Tech, and Search Insider Summit conferences.
Anton’s clients over the years included SAP, Sirius Satellite Radio, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Four Seasons Hotels, Scholastic, ADP, WebMD, Humana, and Register.com, among others.
Anton holds a B.S. degree in International Business from the University of Bridgeport, and an M.B.A. degree from Graduate School of Business at Union College. Anton serves as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Pratt Institute. He lives in New York City.