Christopher Ryan – President
Jim Franklin – Managing Director, Sales Enablement
Myron Berg – Senior Technology Strategist
John D. Leavy – Managing Director, Pull Marketing
Lee Ann Fleming – Senior Director Public Relations Services
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.
Companies such as Hewlett-Packard, FrontRange Solutions, Immunix, MAYAN Networks and E-Stream have benefited from Dave’s track record of achieving aggressive business results through rapid improvements in marketing strategy, positioning, communications, lead generation and results-oriented selling. He has a strong knowledge and experience in corporate, product and field marketing on a global basis.
Prior to Bellandi Group, Dave was the Sales & Marketing VP at Immunix, a startup in the security appliance space. As VP of Worldwide Marketing at FrontRange Solutions, Dave put in place CRM software and processes to automate many aspects of the sales and marketing activities. Previously, as the VP of Corporate Marketing for MAYAN Networks, he started a marketing organization from the ground up for an emerging startup in the optical networking space.
Before contributing to these startup companies, Dave enjoyed a long technical career at Hewlett-Packard, where he contributed to all aspects of technical marketing, including field marketing, product marketing, market development, new business development, multi-divisional marketing and outbound and corporate marketing.
Jim Franklin – Managing Director, Sales Enablement
Jim brings nearly 25 years of sales, marketing, and business development experience to the organization. Prior to joining Fusion Marketing Partners, Franklin was the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Zoot Enterprises, a leading enterprise credit decisioning and loan origination software provider serving large financial institutions. Franklin led the Sales, Marketing, and Business Development groups and was responsible for hiring, developing the sales operational platform to achieve maximum revenue growth and creating differentiating marketing strategies.
Jim Franklin also served as both North American and Western Regional Vice President of Sales for Stellent Sales/Optika Inc., an enterprise content management software company based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Franklin has held various executive sales and marketing positions for companies such as Giga Information Group, Geo/SQL Corporation, Ogden Systems Group, IDC Government and META Group.
Myron Berg – Senior Technology Strategist
Contemporary sales and marketing often depends on the effective and efficient application of technology to meet business requirements. As a seasoned entreprenuer and technologist, Myron understands how business needs must drive the application of technology. And the technology must be rapidly deloyed 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.
John D. Leavy – Managing Director, Pull Marketing
John Leavy’s IT career spans 40 years with the past 10 years developing and delivering top-notch Internet presence management tactics such as Web Design and Search Engine Optimization that gives clients first-page presence on Google, MSN and Yahoo. He also delivers search engine marketing and pay-per-click campaigns as well as pay-per-click fraud detection, content syndication and press release optimization. Some of Leavy Consulting Inc.’s clients included: the Kennedy Space Center, The City of Milwaukee, Mobil Oil Corporation, the Army Corps of Engineers, General Motors, Delco Products, Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and Bose.
John is the author of several popular computer titles, including the bestselling John Leavy’s MicroStation Reference Guide (4th edition) as well as The Survivor’s PowerDraft Desk Reference. He collaborated on the MicroStation Bible and Inside MicroStation. He regularly contributes articles to leading publications and content to web portals. John served on the Advisory Board as a technical editor and was a regular columnist for three years for the MicroStation Manager Magazine.
Lee Ann Fleming – Senior Director Public Relations Services
A communications professional with more than 20 years experience, Lee Ann Fleming brings skills in public relations, marketing, strategy, sales, crisis communications, technical writing, copy editing and journalism. She’s worked on successful campaigns for clients in industries as diverse as healthcare, higher education, high tech, government, nonprofit and tourism. Her technical writing background includes work in the high tech, energy and telecommunications industries.
Lee Ann has experience in B2B marketing, competitive research, pricing strategies, positioning and web navigation and design for optimized e-commerce performance. She holds a master’s degree in English, master’s level coursework in corporate communications, and bachelors’ degrees in history and English. She has written and taught a college course in Public Relations which is currently being offered through an online university. She earned her Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) in 2003 from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Her work has been recognized by the Society for Technical Communication (STC), Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP), International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and PRSA.
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