TALENT & RESOURCES

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Brand Strategy

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Alexa Dunnigan

Social Media Marketing + Brand Strategy

Angel Evan

Angel Evan is the Managing Partner and Mobile Strategy Lead for Dark Matter, Inc., a marketing group exclusively focused on mobile and social. A former creative director turned marketing strategist, he leads mobile marketing efforts for both brands and agencies with the goal of transforming mobile from the complicated to the understandable.

Angela Sena

Shifted from account management to brand strategy almost a year ago @ TBWA\CHIAT\DAY- NY. Ready for a job in SF!

Brian Mahlstedt

Student in my junior year at the Academy of Art University in SF majoring in creative strategy.

Chris Schmidt

I am a marketing enthusiast currently residing in St. Louis, but eager to move to the west coast. I graduated this past December with my degree in Business Administration-Marketing. I am active in social media and enjoy learning new things everyday. I am also an avid reader.

D. Mark Hornung

Branding specialist with emphasis on internal branding and employee communications. Work with FORTUNE 50 corporations as well as small- to medium-sized businesses, government agencies and non-profits.

David Chriswick

Planning Director at DDB Sydney

Evan P. Romano

Creative Strategist from SFC.

Fred Hidalgo

Have been working at some of the best national ad agencies in S.F., rounding out campaign presentations and doing special brand projects, I use a diverse approach to specific problems with own-able inventive results. Please refer to web site - fredhidalgo.com

Fred Lameck

I am a marketing and communications professional currently living in Washington, DC. I currently work for a boutique marketing agency located near the Foggy Bottom neighborhood. I'm interested in expanding my experience in brand strategy and relocate to San Francisco or New York City.

Gemma Han Rianoshek

I am eager to learn and anxious to break into the advertising/ branding world.

Grant Shellen

I can't say no to a well-made grilled sandwich. Unless there's eggplant or something weird in it. Or it's asking me to do something unethical. Because ethics are important, even when you're hungry.

Hansen Fu

Coming soon...

Hunter Marshall

Marketing and Branding Strategy Expert with Sustainability, Technology and Energy Focus. Scrappy entrepreneur able to keep a straight face.

James Lesko

Current: Brand Advertising & Media Lead, AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah Past: Creative Director, AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah Sr.Copywriter, Highway One/DMB&B Copywriter, Saatchi & Saatchi SF

Kathleen Smyth

I'm a Bay Area native who lives in Ireland and works as a Strategic Planner at Publicis QMP in Dublin.

Katie O'Brien

New to San Francisco, to direct creative for a broad range of global clients at Fleishman-Hillard. I design super personalized invites for weddings and parties under the name Knock Out Design Company. I used to plan events like foosball tournaments or kickball showdowns for the local DC design community and hope to do the same in SF.

Katrina Yulo

kelly patrick rupp

Planner. Curious as hell. I'm going skiing.

Laura Noël Schaub

Documentary, Portrait, Event, Automotive and Fashion Photographer

Lindsay Bohdanowicz

I'm a recent graduate from the University of San Francisco where I studied Graphic Design with a minor in Communication Studies and Advertising. I chose this path so that I could simultaneously gain technical design skills and learn how to think strategically from a marketing standpoint. I have always been interested in the intersection between art and business, and am therefore passionate about diving into the world of advertising. With my interests in both the management and research sides of design, I am looking to get involved and learn all that I can on the strategy team at a collaborative, creative company. Currently back home in Seattle for the summer, I'm serious about joining the SF advertising community and am planning my move in the next couple months.

Lisa Joss

Brand stewardship. Agency review and start up strategy. Either side of the aisle. Planning, design managment, social, etc. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-joss/2/115/627

Marcus V Colombano

I am a self-motivated and passionate strategist who can find opportunities and connections where others are unable. I am looking to work for an organization who is interested in leveraging these abilities to develop new products, expand their business and generate increased awareness for their products and services.

Mark Haffenreffer

Advertising Creative Strategist w/ experience leveraging retailer, consumer, and entertainment brands including Walmart, DirecTV, Sam's Club, SuperValu, and Costco.

Matt Chong

Michael Pistorio

Former journalist living in San Francisco. Since quitting the biz have been moonlighting as a photographer and videographer. Now ascending to content strategist. Here are some links to my work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pistorio/

Pamela King

Digital Strategist with account planning and social media background looking for role in San Francisco ASAP

Richard Cordiner

I'm a brand strategist with Venables Bell & Partners.

Rodney Brooks

My marketing philosophy is simple: understand your target audience, think strategically on how to reach them and be creative in telling them your story. Everything else is just tactics. I feel there is a definite match between your stated needs and my qualifications. I have Marketing / Project Management experience in the high-tech, publishing and consumer products industries including 7 years advertising agency experience

Russell Bongard

I'm down to do WORK. My brain is bursting with new ideas everyday, and it's starting ti hurt. Oh, and I'm also into - Sarcasm. Switchblades. Design. Advertising. Pockets. Zippers. The 5 Deadly Venoms. My knitting-circle. Beer.

Sarah Kuntsal

On the Strategy & Planning team at iCrossing in San Francisco.

Sarah Vining

I'm a brand strategist looking for new opportunities in San Francisco or New York. When I'm not looking for job, I'm managing the website (first-stop.org) that I launched with a group of other talented professionals for creatives, photographers and illustrators in the ad industry. Besides brand strategy, what else blows my hair back? Libraries. Reading. In the bath, on the train, on the beach. Cemeteries (not as morbid as it sounds). I revel in thinking about people, their history and journey, what motivates, inspires and what makes them feel safe. Did I mention, I'm South African (with a green card)? I've lived in Johannesburg and Toronto, taught English in Taiwan, camped my way through the Rockie Mountains, backpacked around Eastern Europe and toured Vietnam, solo. And I love new places big and small. Next on my immediate list is the Neon Museum in Vegas. Vegas doesn't interest me as much as the history of the place, preserved in an iconic art form - the neon signs. Want to join me?

Scott Murphy

Scott Murphy is a marketing professional based in San Francisco. He is an experienced entrepreneur, an MBA, and a hell of a nice guy.

Shane Jordan

"When the sun comes up, the gazelle wakes up knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be eaten. The lion knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. So it doesn’t matter if you are a gazelle or a lion, when the sun comes up, you had better be running."

tektalk

Mobile Industry Leader- Consumer - Social Marketing and Business Development Leader in the Mobile Industry. Experience working across the ecosystem, from the carrier, to hardware (mobile devices) and software (mobile apps). Leader across marketing disciplines from digital and online to product, corporate, PR and investor relations. I love working with a dynamic and changing environment, where growth and awareness is the goal.

Tim Muray

Brand strategist creative director who loves cultivating something outta nothin'.