As a business development professional at ExactTarget, Ali Margello partners with marketers and agencies of all sizes to help them optimize their digital marketing efforts through the effective use of email, SMS, voice, and related social media platforms. In addition to traditional sales developments, Ali works closely with several Industry partners and Associations (American Marketing […]
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Ali Margello
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Roger Bora

Roger Bora is a member of Thompson Hine’s Intellectual Property practice group, concentrating his practice in the area of intellectual property law, which includes trademark, passing off, false endorsement, trade dress, copyright, e-commerce and internet, advertising, and right of publicity laws. Before joining Thompson Hine, Roger was a practicing trademark attorney in a major law […]
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Debba Haupert

With her 20 years of marketing experience in communications, PR, product development, etc. (self-proclaimed ‘marketing mutt’) in various industries (high tech, finance, B2B, CPG), Debba Haupert has grown the girlfriend community online. She employs Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms to further expand the awareness of and traffic on Girlfriendology.com. Through her social […]
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Kendra Ramirez

Kendra Ramirez, CEO/Founder of Sales Konnect, is able to teach and consult directly from over a decade of experience in networking, sales, recruiting and business improvement. Since 2005, Kendra has shown businesses how to utilize these networking tools to shorten sales cycle, find passive candidates and extend their marketing plans. Kendra is also one of […]
SummitUp Podcast Preview – David Esrati

Called the über blogger by the Dayton Daily News, David Esrati leads The Next Wave, a forward thinking advertising agency that has been on the leading edge of utilizing open source content managers for web development. He has been a keynote speaker at national conferences talking about organic SEO/SEM, community building online and the future […]
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Brian LeCount

Brian LeCount is Associate Director of Strategic Planning at Bridge Worldwide – a WPP interactive and relationship marketing agency in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to joining Bridge, Brian founded R.O.Why! Marketing, a results-focused marketing communications firm, and previously spent 8 years serving on the client side in marketing leadership roles in healthcare, technology consulting, software and […]
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Jennifer McClure

Jennifer McClure is an Executive Recruiter, Executive Coach and “Talent Geek”. Translation? A Consultant, Advisor and Partner to businesses and business leaders in the areas of attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining Talent in their organizations. She is the Founder/Group Manager of LinkedCincinnati – a networking group of over 10,000 professionals who understand the value of […]
SummitUp Preview Podcast – Steve Phillips

As principal and owner of Purple Trout, LLC Steve Phillips literally lives, eats, breathes and, yes, sleeps Search Engine Optimization (SEO). His passion for SEO is evident in his daily client work; desire to educate clients on the art and science of SEO and his dedication to producing higher rankings in search engines for each and every […]
SummitUp

For my birthday this year, I am getting something really cool – a social media conference right here in Dayton. “Yea, Just what I always wanted, a conference!” No, the conference was not put on for that reason, but it is a nice coincidence. The event is called SummitUp, it will take place on October […]
Ladies and Gentlemen… Tim Westergren

In January of 2006, I discovered Pandora.com. Almost immediately, I began telling people about the site. A few days later, I even posted a thank you note on my blog to Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora. Yesterday, I had the very distinct honor of introducing Tim at the Cincinnati Social Media Breakfast. My […]