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Janet and her business partners make specific, actionable brand marketing, sales, and brand communications recommendations and develop/contribute to the follow-on projects. They handle the implementation for clients or leverage the time and expertise of existing client marketing staff in order to execute programs. Either way, they work closely with clients for increased brand success, competitive advantage, growth and profit. Janet and her partners frequently work with companies in the technology, healthcare, biotech, and finance businesses. Janet’s background training has included work for many iconic brands (Post, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark, Dole, Tropicana, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft General Foods, P&G, Keebler, Levi’s, Apple, Symantec, HP, Sprint, 0racle, Schwab, Wells Fargo). Her years as a marketing and management consultant, working for leading brands as well as new, emerging and innovative companies gives her an ability to efficiently add insightful recommendations and strategic leadership to client plans. Her depth of experience working on new products and brand launch plans has prepared her to address a constellation of business challenges. Janet is known for her collaborative style that makes working with her and with her company a real pleasure. Many clients work repeatedly with Janet and her firm over the course of their own careers, because the strategic collaboration works so very well.
Kathryn is expert at tracing cash and non-cash incentives to find and create alignment among the various stakeholders and has an exceptional ability to understand the customer experience and its potential to support and grow revenue for a given offering. Strengths include:
Kathryn is the Managing Director and Founder of Act One Healthcare, which helps organizations create maximum value with their new ideas in health. Previously she was President, CEO, and Director of PurThread Technologies, CEO of Act One Marketing, VP of Marketing at Somnus Medical Technologies, Director of Global Marketing for Baxter Healthcare’s largest product line, and an Analyst with Goldman Sachs. Clients have included Cleveland Clinic, Health Evolution, Amgen, Stanford Health, Johnson & Johnson, Raptor Pharmaceuticals, and BiPar Sciences. A.B cum laude, Princeton University and M.B.A. Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Most recently Elise was a founding member, head of project management and senior director of Aerovance, Inc, a venture-backed biotechnology company spun out from Bayer Healthcare. At Aerovance she created and managed effective team processes to bring four product candidates into full scale clinical Phase 1 and 2 development. Prior to Aerovance, Elise acted as head of project management for Bayer’s Biotechnology Unit, where she integrated project strategies to meet therapeutic and market needs. Other roles were directed toward building and negotiating partnerships with third parties to support the development programs, and leading research teams through early bench-to-clinic development phases. Elise received her MS, MPhil and PhD (Biology) from Yale University, and her BS (Biology) from Allegheny College.
Before founding Jill Milan, Jill headed up marketing for a number of private and venture-backed technology and consumer product companies. She was a co-founder of a consumer goods company, RAZCAL, which owned Virgil’s Root Beer, the only drink ever to be named “Outstanding Beverage” three times by the International Fancy Food Show. She also associate produced the movie “Free to a Good Home” about animals in Los Angeles shelters. Jill is a vegan and an animal advocate with an interest in rescuing horses at risk of going to slaughter. She holds bachelor's and master’s degrees from Oxford University, England, is a member of MENSA and served as a founding board member of the International Institute for Film Financing.
 Diane Hayes, principal at Diane Hayes Sales Training & Consulting is an experienced leader, trainer and motivator who teaches sales teams how to sell digital and traditional media TOGETHER for the benefit of their advertisers. Often doubling the properties digital billing while increasing their business development revenue and nurturing sales people to believe in themselves and achieve success beyond their own expectations, Diane is a trusted media executive who has worked with both large broadcast groups like COX Media, Tribune Broadcasting and the CBC in addition to smaller station and broadcast groups. She's a hands-on problem solver with extensive practical experience in sales, sales management, business development and digital sales, achieving results for both the station and their clients.
Seeking a healthier lifestyle, Bobbie completed her first marathon at age 53 and, today, the 60-year-old athlete is training for her fifth Ironman Triathlon, recognized as the world’s most challenging endurance sports competition. Bobbie earned an MBA at Harvard Business School after attending the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is a certified career coach and was recognized in 2013 one of the “Women Who Have Made Their Mark” at Watermark’s annual award ceremony. When she is not coaching executives or Ironman triathletes, she serves on a number of non-profit boards and happily rescues Golden Retriever dogs.
Both strongly analytical and on-the-ground tactical, Michelle builds brands from inception, as she develops the strategy, creates the brand identity, and brings the brand to life with her Blue Parrot Marketing team—while tackling the inevitable practical issues that arise in bringing a product to market. An insightful problem-solver, she has cultivated a successful team that is both analytical and creative: creating collaborative partnerships, crafting brand strategies, discovering innovative opportunities, and executing on time. San Francisco Leaders Network Leadership Team
Her years of consulting experience includes working with large corporations such as Sun, Cisco and Symantec, to start-ups and non-profits. She has created strategic positioning and messaging, developed strategies, devised go-to-market plans and executed marketing programs for companies as diverse as wine industry manufacturing, database management, education technology, aviation content management and computer security firms. Deborah served as President of Women In Consulting from 2004-2006, co-founded and served on the board of the Association of Strategic Alliance Partners-Silicon Valley, and served on the board of the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association. She is currently a Marketing Advisor with Kokko, a color technology company for mobile color shopping applications.
Deb assists clients with strategic research, branding, positioning and messaging, market and product development and launch, competitive and technology analysis, and customer loyalty and experience projects. Deb has more than 25 years of marketing, customer service, and sales experience in public and privately-held companies in high tech, healthcare / wellness, biotech, sustainability and professional services. She brings a unique combination of strategic and tactical skills developed through hands-on line management experience at fast-growing companies. Deb was named one of the top 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley in 2016. Prior to founding Strategic Marketing Solutions, Deb held senior and executive level positions in customer satisfaction and service, marketing, product management, and market development. Deb graduated Beta Gamma Sigma with a M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and Phi Beta Kappa with a BBA from the University of Michigan. She is a popular speaker, and has been featured in executive pod- and web-casts on “Customer Voice”, , "Building Customer Loyalty," "The Power of Retention Marketing", and "How Research Can Reveal New Insights into Your Customers, Your Product, & Your Brand."
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