Sample Associate Profiles

Cindy has ten years of marketing and consulting experience in the high technology industry.  She has worked in high tech marketing for Symantec Corporation as a Strategic Marketing Manager and as a Technical Marketing Engineer and Design Engineer at Intel.  Cindy also has significant experience as a management consultant having worked for Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath (PRTM) where she worked with numerous global clients developing go-to-market strategies, supply chain strategies, merger and integration strategies and managing product development projects.   Cindy has an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Debra has a background in the financial services industry having worked for investment banks in both New York and San Francisco.  Most recently, Debra was a Vice President in Institutional Equity Sales at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, Inc. where she had also worked as a Senior Research Associate/Junior Analyst in the Commercial Banks division.  Debra worked as a Senior Research Associate at Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and covered hardline retailers/e-commerce/apparel & footwear.  She also has experience as an Investment Associate in Private Client Services at Solomon Smith Barney.  Debra has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, also from Northwestern.

Susan is a product marketing specialist in the high technology industry.  She has worked as a product manager for America Online where she specialized in shopping platform technologies.  Susan also worked in product management at BeVocal Inc. in consumer voice applications where she oversaw the implementation and deployment of voice-recognition based applications for wireless companies.  As a consultant for Oracle Corporation, she gained experience scoping, designing and implementing large software packages.  Susan received her MBA from the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and has a Masters of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Laura has broad experience in management consulting, both as a Senior Manager of Strategy at Razorfish and also as an independent consultant to clients such as Blue Shield of California, The Gap and San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market.   Laura worked as a Finance Analyst at SGI where she gained experience in activity-based costing and global financial reporting.  She has worked as a Volunteer Program Officer at the Taproot Foundation and has attended language schools in Costa Rica, Guatamala and Peru.  Laura has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Bachelor of Arts degree from Bates College.

Doug is a seasoned sales executive with over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry.  Doug has led sales teams at HIFN, Netlabs and Seagate Software and served as VP of OEM Sales at Zitel.  At Chi Systems he led both the sales and marketing effort as VP Sales & Marketing and gained additional operating experience as the Chief Operating Officer of Orbit Software.  Doug has also held various roles at Hewlett-Packard and National Semiconductor.  Doug has an MBA from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Jose State.