Meet the Team
Smoke and mirrors? Nope. Just magic. Meet the team that makes it happen.
Kathleen O'Brien Thompson
Founder, President
With over 15 years of diverse experience in business development, marketing, management, and building client relationships at all organizational levels, Kathleen is a skilled developer of broad-based coalitions and networks of influence to increase credibility and visibility. Analytical and possessing critical interviewing skills developed during her tenure in market research, she specializes in strategic communication consulting and the creation of polished, relevant content.
Kait Russell
Content Creator, Project Manager
Kait Russell is a highly skilled professional with a wealth of experience in both customer service and entrepreneurship. With 15 years of expertise in providing exceptional customer experiences, Kait has honed her skills to perfection. As the owner of her own successful business for the past 5 years, she has added entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing and sales skills to her arsenal.
Prashant Mankani
Marketing Account Manager
Prashant believes marketing is the perfect intersection between science and art. A highly motivated, hands-on Digital Marketing generalist, he has an innate ability to multi-task and prioritize his work to achieve the best results. He holds several marketing certifications and has previous experience in running PPC campaigns, building web pages, and creating and publishing content for social media, he is a jack of all trades and master of some!
Lindsay Bowman
Account Manager, Content Creator
Lindsay is a content creator who uses her academic background to craft well-researched, engaging, and useful content. She loves researching and analyzing search volume to craft copy that both humans and bots are attracted to (humans first of course)! Lindsay’s diverse skillset and ability to see the bigger picture make her an efficient project manager.
Jeff Bleu
PPC Expert
A seasoned digital marketer and ad specialist, Jeff brings a deep knowledge of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising. Analytical and determined, his expertise is in devising and implementing digital strategies that yield successful outcomes. Clients always appreciate his laser-focused budget efficiencies. A key component of the overall digital marketing efforts, his focus is on increasing brand awareness, engagement, and conversions from both LinkedIn and Google PPC efforts.
Ed Wilhite
Website Developer
Intuitive, smart, focused, and a huge fan of puzzles and challenges, Ed is a master at solving client conundrums. A senior web developer with 15+ years experience creating unique, complex web sites and web applications. Ed also uses advanced developing techniques to customize and modify existing websites for Professional PUNCH clients.
Dominique Ruffalo
Social Media Manager, Marketer
As an accomplished choreographer, she applies strategic planning, storytelling, attention to detail, creativity, audience insight, and collaboration to enhance effective communication and engagement. Dominique leverages her creative background to develop compelling campaigns that resonate with audiences while meeting business objectives.
Rocio Leal
UI/UX Design Expert, Marketer
Rocio is the driving force behind creating exceptional online experiences that seamlessly align with our client’s marketing strategies, yielding impressive results for their brands. With strong attention to detail, Rocio meticulously designs websites that consistently exceed expectations, ensuring excellence from start to finish. With experience in digital design and project management, Rocio is a trusted team member helping to bring our client’s digital vision to life.
John Schatz
Lead Acquisition & Technical Strategy Director
John brings a unique background of high-level market research and branding consulting that is combined with an ability to get deep into code to help manage our development teams. John has success in creating & executing strategic marketing plans for a diverse client portfolio: international and Fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized regional businesses. Apart from developing and guiding our clients’ strategic plans, John oversees our client LinkedIn lead acquisition mentoring.
Ita Udo-Ema
Social Media Consultant / Videographer
As a Social media strategist, Ita has excellent multitasking skills as well as a an artistic eye. He is an expert at planning, developing and implementing social media strategies in order to support and improve the online presence of our clients. A significant contributor to the overall digital marketing efforts, he provides value to clients by increasing brand awareness, engagement, and conversions from social media ads.
Ivica Panic
Digital Marketing Consultant
Ivica is a creative and performance-driven digital marketing consultant with extensive experience in helping business grow their presence online. With over a decade of experience in digital marketing, he is able to identify a business’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. Clients appreciate the customized marketing insights, SEO and PPC optimizations that create efficient, results-driven campaigns. A great communicator, Ivica brings a sense of fun to data and tracking.
Julie Justison
Designer
Julie Justison is a highly skilled Designer with over 20 years of experience in the design industry. She holds a BFA in Design and Illustration from Kansas City Art Institute where she studied traditional illustration, with an emphasis in graphic design. Over the years she has developed her artistic vision and business acumen as an entrepreneur, Senior Creative Art Director, and Artist.
Emily Robertson
Video Director, SEO Specialist, Project Manager
A multimedia producer, director, copywriter and seasoned marketer. Emily has led and contributed to creative teams of all sizes in locations around the world. Experience is everything and with over 15 years under her belt, she’s learned the ins and outs of the ever-changing media and marketing industries. Clients appreciate her speed and efficiency.
Marisa Diaz-Waian
Writer, Project Manager
A project manager and freelance technical, content as well as editor, proofreader, and copywriter, Marisa’s experience spans consumer & hospitality, entertainment, health care, grassroots, legal, and business-to-business industries. As a member of the professional PUNCH team, Marisa uses her marketing experience, technical writing and research skills to contribute to high-level writing for numerous entities and manage marketing-related aspects for various accounts.
Sandy Porter
Social Media Specialist
With a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, Sandy has consistently used her skills in project management and content creation to craft advertising and marketing strategies for non-profits and corporations both domestically and internationally for over 20 years. She has ran departments with a staff as large as ten and as small as one and managed marketing budgets of several million dollars. She believes designing a unique message consistently and effectively is always the ultimate goal.
April Holle
WordPress, SEO, SEM Consultant
Creating strategies that address YOUR short and long term objectives for both your business and your marketing is what April is passionate about. April brings a wealth of expertise to the Professional PUNCH team. Her areas of expertise range from WordPress search engine optimization (SEO), Google Adwords CPC/PPC search engine marketing (SEM), and Google Analytics — website traffic monitoring and reporting to Google Analytics conversion goals and enhanced eCommerce, conversion rate optimization (CRO), brand strategy, and integrated inbound marketing strategy.
Savannah Ivanitski
Digital Marketer, SEM
Savannah Ivanitski is an experienced digital marketer with a passion for all things adventure related. She has over a decade of experience creating and executing digital strategies that drive results through a variety of tactics like pay-per-click advertising, search engine marketing, and social media content.
Finnegan
Mascot, President of Fun
Finnegan uses advanced strategies to perpetually gain snacks. The ingenious schemes he masterminds and their tactical implementation have led to much amusement. He leads the Professional Punch team in stress management and his snoring capabilities have no equal. His ongoing contribution in the area of office jester has led to his promotion to the auspicious position of President of Fun.
Interested in joining our team?
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
The Engage Marketing Consortium was born out of the realization that smart, self-managing, talented, driven and extremely creative professionals could collaborate on projects – allowing us to provide the very best expertise to you, our clients.
The team includes tech gurus, graphic designers, web developers, high end video producers, directors, videographers, editors and SEO experts. You get a team of people united under a common goal that is efficient, cost effective and best of all – at the top of their respective fields.
Finally, you can create a comprehensive marketing plan – all at a cost you can afford.
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