The FMP Leadership Team
Christopher Ryan is president of Fusion Marketing Partners. Chris has twenty-five years of marketing, technology, and senior management experience, and is a widely known expert in business-to-business marketing, sales strategy, systems, and processes. As both a services provider and in-house marketing executive, Chris has played a transformative role in driving marketing and sales programs that achieve the desired results and create alignment and synergy between the sales and marketing operations.
Prior to founding Fusion Marketing Partners, Chris Ryan served as Vice President of Marketing of SpringCM, the world’s leading provider of on-demand content management solutions. Before that, Chris had been Vice President of Marketing at Stellent, Inc., a $125 million supplier of enterprise content management (ECM) software and services, as well as Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing for FrontRange Solutions, Inc., a $100 million supplier of customer relationship management (CRM) software. Chris was also co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Saligent Software, Inc., a marketing automation software and services company. Earlier, Chris held senior management positions at noted technology firms PeopleSoft, Sybase, and Group 1 Software.
Chris is known as an outstanding communicator and has presented keynote addresses and breakout sessions at numerous conferences on marketing and technology. For three years, Target Marketing magazine named Chris as one of the Top 100 U.S. Marketers. Chris has written three other books on marketing and information technology and has been an instructor and lecturer at the College of Notre Dame, University of Colorado, and Montgomery College.
Myron Berg – Partner & Managing Director, Web and Online Strategies
Contemporary sales and marketing often depends on the effective and efficient application of technology to meet business requirements. As a seasoned entrepreneur and technologist, Myron understands how business needs must drive the application of technology. And the technology must be rapidly deployed at low cost and with the flexibility to adapt. Myron has often been on the front lines in driving and deploying the needed technology infrastructure to meet business goals.
Myron Berg has designed and implemented many technology advancements during his twenty year career. Myron was a key engineering architect at TellSoft Technologies, a co-founder of Black White Box, and a co-founder of Bit Weld. He is the author of ten pending and issued patents. Before deploying his skills in start-up organizations Myron developed his expertise in security platforms and applications with MCI and GTE where he defined, architected and fielded large-scale security intensive software development projects. Myron holds a M.S. in Software Systems Engineering and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Gail Carson – Partner & Managing Director, Client Services
Because it is tricky to manage marketing projects without seizing up the forward progress of the organization, it is particularity important to enlist a Project Manager whose primary concern is to support the revenue goals of the company. Customer Service is the key to succeeding in the Project Management arena. Gail brings extensive experience in Client Services and Customer Service to the Fusion Marketing team.
Gail Carson has worked in the fields of Manufacturing and Education. Most recently Gail worked in Geneva, Switzerland for the International School of Geneva and College de Leman. Prior to that she worked for Logistix, Inc., a supply chain management firm working with customers such as Quantum,and Apple Computers. She has worked with Sears and Emerson in her capacity of Production Control Supervisor at Western Forge. Gail holds a MBA in Marketing and a BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado.
Nate Warren – Director, PR and Content Creation
Nate Warren is a gifted marketing/advertising/PR writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience across newspapers, startups and agencies. Nate interfaces with internal and client strategists to crystallize B2B or B2C messaging for any medium — on target, on budget and on time.
Nate helps our clients develop case studies, press releases, blog posts, web content, and more, drawing on his experience with high-tech PR firms, startups, government agencies, boutique ad shops, and a wide array of SMBs. Nate’s specialties include copywriting, editing, media outreach, content and blog development, social media management, communication strategy and execution.
He was the senior copywriter for The Denver Post/Denver Newspaper Agency’s Creative Services Department; a launch team member of both a Denver media startup (BIAS) and a Boulder mobile payment solution (Mocapay); and an account executive and go-to writer for Metzger Associates, Boulder’s top tech PR and communications firm.
