I am currently senior vice president & partner of the West Coast Digital practice with Fleishman-Hillard International Communications. I am a veteran marketing and digital business professional with over 25 years of experience serving clients. I’d characterize myself as an entrepreneur, executive, culture creator, idea generator and technology strategist.

My career began in traditional advertising with Dailey and Associates Advertising (American Honda) and Young & Rubicam (Nissin Cup O’ Noodles). After receiving my MBA, I was founding marketing director for Wild Packets (http://www.wildpackets.com/), the premier provider of software-based network troubleshooting tools. After five years in that position and confidence that the venture would continue to grow, I founded Clear Ink, one of the earliest interactive marketing firms, and grew it into a $150 million integrated marketing communications agency by 2000 with acquisition of a direct marketing agency and the recruitment of a foremost advertising creative director. After the tech bubble burst in 2001, I started over and nurtured the company back to health. In March 2009, I was elevated to Chairman of Clear Ink and joined Fleishman-Hillard as Senior Vice President of the firm’s West Coast Digital practice. My areas of specialty include mapping transformational technology solutions to business problems, strategic leadership for emerging technology groups, and translation of communications plans into supporting interactive campaigns.

I have a BA in anthropology from Pomona College in Claremont, California, and an MBA in general management from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California, Los Angeles.