Act 1 Partners is the parent of Act 1 Events, a corporate experiential firm helping businesses grow through brand-immersive experiences and events.

• Manage a network of local leaders at PDX Executive Assembly, fostering community value and support for ambitious career and professional goals.• Organized events and initiatives to connect professionals in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area.• Spearheaded collaborations with key stakeholders to drive impactful change within the community.

Member of the faculty at the School of Business with an emphasis on marketing strategy, business innovation, lean startup methods, customer relationships (CRM), customer acquisition (CAC), customer lifetime value (LTV), disruptive innovation and design thinking.

Your Marketing Moment is a podcast about marketing moments – those significant events or moments of time that transform a career or business – and how you can create your own marketing moment.

Oversee all corporate marketing functions driving company awareness, generating demand, and promoting Segra’s unique value proposition and brand.

SmartRG (now part of Adtran) is an international leader of solutions that optimize home WiFi networks and enhance the connected home experience. The company’s products leverage various broadband access technologies that meet Internet service provider requirements and integrate with diverse home networking technologies.

- Recruited as a member of the executive team to build a marketing department and design and implement a product strategy to target the commercial and consumer marketplace.- Responsible for all corporate marketing functions including digital marketing strategy, brand building, creative, content marketing, advertising, consumer research, direct marketing, customer segmentation, lead generation, customer loyalty, social media, the online user experience, public relations, product development, product management, product life-cycle, and program management. - Led several key cross-functional initiatives such as new product roll-out, price changes, corporate strategic planning and public relations.- Analyzed customer research, market data, competitive analysis, industry reports and technology trends to develop, execute and measure marketing and sales programs.- Point of contact for national advertising and public relations agencies.- Company spokesperson for high-profile national news stories.- Reporting directly to COO-President.

Angel Oregon is an investment fund comprised of individual investors and sponsored by the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN). After investors perform rigorous due diligence on several local start-ups, they vote to award funding to the company they consider to be most promising.

Integra (now AllStream) is one of the nation’s largest business telecommunications companies serving 11 western US states. Recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the nation’s fastest-growing privately held companies for six consecutive years during tenure as vice president of marketing.• Senior marketing executive responsible for all marketing functions when annual revenues grew from $18 million to over $600 million. • Served as national spokesperson for company, managing all major public announcements, crisis communications, and point-of-contact for agencies of record. • Led marketing during two multi-million-dollar acquisitions. Managed the integration of products and product pricing, website and brand strategy, public relations, advertising campaigns, and employee on-boarding program for a 2,500-employee workforce.• Designed and deployed sales commission and incentive plans that drove five consecutive years of highly profitable double-digit organic growth. • Designed, launched and supported innovative sales tools, sales incentive programs, product and pricing promotions, agent/partner agreements, and sales training for 350-person sales force.• Collaborated with executive leadership and finance department on positioning and messaging for both raising capital and for quarterly investor announcements.• Developed company-wide community affairs program that was recognized by the Portland Business Journal with seven consecutive Oregon’s Most Admired Company award (2005-2011).• Designed and managed multi-layered, lead generation programs that leveraged digital marketing, advertising, trade shows, corporate events, referrals, and outbound demand generation campaigns.• Implemented Net Promoter Score (NPS) customer survey program and designed customer loyalty campaigns that set industry-leading customer retention rates.• Reported directly to CEO.

Directed field marketing managers throughout the western U.S. launching new service in five states. Designed, led and implemented pricing policy, sales order process, sales training, public relations and advertising campaigns, customer reference program, and customer referral program.

• Identified, developed and managed key strategic partnerships• Designed and implemented on-line promotions and e-commerce site

• Full P&L responsibility for division within the North America Prof. Services business unit• Managed local operations staff: sales, telemarketing, registration, billing and inventory