These are people and organizations that I admire and follow. Some are clients, others are partners. Some I’ve met, and others I have never met but am influenced by their writings and opinions.

Clients and Partners

Monterey Bay Aquarium - One of the most dazzling aquariums in the world and a fine conservancy organization helping ensure that our oceans remain healthy. I’m proud to work with the fine people at Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Revel Media - An amazing agency in Healdsburg, CA that creates incredible brand design for food, wine, agriculture and lifestyle brands. I’m very fortunate to help them with some of their amazing clients.

Bay Area Creative Foundation - The Bay Area Creative Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and honoring creativity in high-school-aged youth. The BACF produces the Creative Youth Celebration highlighting and elevating the creative work done by students in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Here Be Dragons - Here Be Dragons is an amazing creative and marketing agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The partners have many years of creating identities and campaigns for medium and large organizations that position or re-position their brand.

Grand Rounds - Grand Rounds, based in San Francisco, works with large organizations to help them manage their workforce’s health care. Through consultation and management they improve health outcomes. This incredibly important work is carried out efficiently and effectively.

Walrus Health - Walrus, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, helps individual and organizations’ employees obtain the most relevant and important content related to their prescription medications. This focus improves health outcomes by ensuring patients receive the right medication for their conditions.

Duetto - Duetto, a Hospitality Revenue Management platform addresses the biggest problems faced by the hospitality industry by simplifying distribution complexity and optimizing profitability with unique and powerful applications that increase conversion, guest loyalty, operational efficiency and revenue. Based in San Francisco, they offices and teams around the world.

LevelUp Digital - A small digital agency based in Southern California that is helmed by a colleague and friend, Andrew Hutton and his wife, Chase Facer. They are smart, pragmatic, and nimble. They help small and medium-sized clients design and manage high-performance conversion marketing campaigns.

Influential Voices

Dr. Augustine Fou - The authority on Ad Fraud and Audience Authenticity. I have followed his readings for several years and have had a few very rewarding conversations with this generous leader. Our conversations led me to doing new things and finding new and better ways to ensure my clients’ precious marketing budgets are spent with optimal effectiveness.

Bob Hoffman, The AdContrarian - Author, Blogger, and thorn in the side of the digital marketing industrial complex. His books are on-point and deliver equal parts pain and hilarity. We need more critics like this. I don’t know him, personally, but hope to meet him at some point. I find him to accurate and morally correct in his scathing critique of digital platforms.

Avinash Kaushik, Occam’s Razor - Mr. Kaushik is an author, blogger and Google’s Digital Marketing Evangelist. His books are fantastic for their insight and tactical instruction. His blog is a deep, deep masterclass in digital data analysis. To say I admire him is an understatement. I hope to meet him one day. The content in his blog is deep and super useful. I think he shares my love of tactics.