Team
 
 
 

"Let's tell your story."Catherine mixes her consumer, media and channel development experience with her operational marketing and communication expertise to help clients transform ideas into winning products, new markets, and results-driven marketing and advertising programs.

"Let's engage your audience." Catherine works as both a project lead for strategic marketing initiatives and on long-term marketing executive assignments to lead, produce and direct product, market and content/media opportunities. Her brand marketing, direct advertising, ecommerce and online launch experience are well-suited to developing business-building programs that are actionable and memorable. Her experience in new media, content business development and brand direction make for crisp messaging and product positioning for advertising, online media, merchandising, public relation campaigns, and communication programs. She has grown and led a broad array of teams, partners and creative agencies.

"Let's produce some results."Catherine brings experienced marketing leadership and know-how to consumer brands, media, products and services. Her background includes executive marketing assignments and operational management roles for large consumer tech brand and media companies like Paramount, Microsoft WebTV, Visioneer, Intuit, Palm and Apple. On the non-tech front, her consumer expertise in retail, direct marketing and online marketing play a key role in driving product marketing and customer acquisition for startup companies, like TastingRoom.com where she recently led the product marketing, ecommerce, and marketing for their initial market entry.

Catherine received her MBA and BS degrees at the University of Santa Clara. Catherine has also taught university courses as adjunct professor for undergraduate Product & Brand Marketing and Marketing Communications.

More Spark :

  • Strategic marketing and business advisor for a number of entreprenuers and startup ventures ranging from consumer tech to food/wine.
  • Wrtier and social commentator for BuzzMatter.com an online digital age dictionary for new business lexicon and fun. (Of course, there's an experimental twitter feed too for more 'social notworking' buzz) www.buzzmatter.com
  • Founder and creator of TimeToo® and Baby Tracker® and runs an estore that publishes and distributes her line of calendars, journals and products to address the needs of the "home busy-ness" market (And a great excuse to design products that she needs to keep track of her busy world) www.timetoo.com

 

Expertise:
- Consumer Marketing and Media
- Content and Media Programming
- Brand Strategy: Positioning and Messaging
- Product Definition and Marketing
- Advertising and Communication Campaigns
- Customer and Member Acquisition Programs
- Ecommerce and Online Marketing
- Creative Design, Direction and Management

Operational Executive Highlights:

VP Marketing and Ecommerce (& Founding Team) TastingRoom.com
VP, Brand CMO (exec assignment) Zing (purchased by Dell)
VP, Marketing (exec assignments)

Microsoft WebTV
Paramount Studios SW;
Visioneer (now ScanSoft)

Direct Marketing, Acquisition
Desktop Publishing, Presentation and Multimedia
Retail Promotions and Programs

Apple Computer
   


Outside Interests:
Scrabble - "Because I love words, especially when they count."
Beach-combing -  "Because you get to watch the world change
 right before your eyes."
Kids - "Because they teach you not to take it all so seriously"

Points to Ponder:
"Life is full of obstacle illusions." –Grant Frazier