Brian Gramer is founder and CEO of Avenue Right, his third marketing technology start-up company, founded in January 2008. In 2001, Gramer founded Vtrenz, a marketing automation technologies SaaS (Software as a Service) company. With fifteen years of sales and marketing experience, Gramer is a foremost marketing strategist and brings an impressive track record…
Justin Gray is the CEO and Chief Marketing Evangelist of LeadMD. He founded the company in 2009, with the vision of transforming traditional grassroots marketing efforts through the use of cloud based marketing solutions. He sees grassroots marketing dollars shrinking and traditional branding efforts being strewn aside in favor of…
Meet Justin Gray – CEO and Chief Marketing Evangelist of LeadMD
Chris is the President of Human Business Works and started New Media Marketing Labs to work with large and mid-sized companies such as Pepsico, Comcast, Molson/Coors and The Henry Ford Museum to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms and other…
Andy Crestodina is the strategic director at Orbit Media Studios. He brings vision and Web marketing expertise to the Chicago business community. At his best, he is an idea machine, aligning client’s goals with effective Web marketing techniques. Ideas are tempered by 10 years of experience on a huge range…
Meet Andy Crestodina – Breakfast with a Chicago Web Strategist
Jill Sherman is a detail-obsessed trend addict living in Boston, Massachusetts. By day, she’s a marketing exec navigating her way through the bowels of corporate America. By night, she’s a trend fiend who scours all forms of print and digital media in hopes of spotting the next relevant, interesting, and/or…
Meet Jill Sherman – Beauty Exec Turned E-Commerce Entrepreneur
In February 1995, Patrick King woke up in the rain behind a gas station, 17 and homeless. Picking himself up from that point, Patrick has developed a legacy of creating opportunities instead of waiting for them, while becoming a completely self-taught branding, marketing and design authority. His entrepreneurial drive led…
Meet Patrick King – A Life of Making Something Out of Nothing
Amy Levy has led her own firm, Amy Levy Public Relations, Inc. (ALPR) for eight years. She boasts experience at national advertising and public relations firms, in house on the client side and on staff at an internationally recognized non-profit organization. She has an unparalleled track record of delivering strategic,…
With experience that began with his first “real job” as a daily newspaper reporter and moved through PR agencies, independent consulting and in-house positions, Jim Zahniser has a well-earned insight into the workings of media and communications strategy. In his most recent professional ventures, he has led communications strategies for…
Meet Jim Zahniser – Seasoned Skeptic, Communications Professional
Sarah Nelson is currently the Founder and CEO of Npress and the Practice Marketing Revolution. Sarah has been helping doctors and dentists get new patients and keep them since 2007. Sarah and her team advise health care practices, organizations, and individuals on how to build strategic marketing plans and use…
Meet Sarah Nelson – CEO of Npress and Practice Marketing Revolution
Mirja Riester is the chief strategic officer at RIESTER one of the largest independent advertising and public relations firms in the western United States. She established the European method of Brand Planning at RIESTER when she joined the firm in 1997. She continues to supervise that function today, in addition…
Meet Mirja Riester – Activist for sustainability in marketing