About Magneti

Our Team

• Adam Williams

  Chief Executive Officer

  Adam Williams is the CEO of Magneti and has previously been a partner or founding member of many startups, ranging from the publishing industry to construction. Adam has a passion for great ideas and bringing those ideas to life. Outside of his professional life, Adam enjoys torturing trout with a fly rod and skiing big lines. Faith, purpose, and family are the core foundations of his life. Adam’s wife of eighteen years and twelve-year-old son put up with a lot. This summer Adam will be celebrating his twenty-second year as a brain tumor survivor.

• Jesse Marble

  Chief Marketing Officer

  Jesse’s background is in tech startups, B2B digital marketing, and integrated campaign strategy and management. He loves the creative and analytical team that makes up Magneti.

  Jesse excels at a rare form of South American chess, lives on a refurbished houseboat, and plays poker with the surviving members of Apollo 17. Actually, that’s not true at all.

• Ray Cameron

  Director of Digital Marketing

  Ray has been involved with digital marketing for nearly a decade. After helping an SEO company grow by 400 percent, Ray started his own digital marketing company and achieved HubSpot Gold Partner status in 18 months. Ray has been leading teams of digital marketers implementing SEO, PPC, social media, content marketing, conversion strategy, and email marketing on hundreds of websites since 2008. Ray lives in Colorado Springs with his wife and daughter, the youngest of their three kids.

• Ben Robb

  Director of Strategic Engagement

  Ben’s background is in nonprofit development. He has worked in marketing and communications roles for nonprofits as large as Compassion International and as small (but amazing!) as Springs Rescue Mission, where he served as development director. He has won national and regional awards for his video and print work and raised millions of dollars through direct response campaigns. Ben studied literature and professional writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and writes short fiction in his free time (when he’s not running or fishing or cooking or camping with his wife and kids).

• Dennis Berry

  Director of Sales

  Dennis is an entrepreneur – having started several businesses ranging from catering and fitness to rare coins and precious metals. Some were successful, some not as much, but he is a student for life. “Learn from your mistakes and move forward,” is something he would say. He is also an author,  keynote speaker and business coach as well.

  Outside of his professional life, he is dedicated to the love of his life and step son. Oh, and he loves the beach.

• Anthony Hyatt

  Senior Marketing Manager

  Anthony’s background is in national public relations, writing and doing everything from holding a camera to giving world-renown actors bad acting advice on movie sets.

  Anthony went to the School of Hard Knox for the first four years of his life, before landing in Pre-K, and wages war with autocrrect ona daly bsis.

• Nerissa England

  Marketing Manager

  Nerissa has a background in communications, account management and campaign strategy. In her spare time, Nerissa loves to bake, travel, hike and play tennis. She loves getting to know people and learning what makes them tick, but is also an introvert, so get her in a one on one conversation (especially while hiking) and she could talk all day!

• Mike Clothier

  Marketing Manager

  Mike is a Colorado Springs native and currently lives here with his wife, Abbey, and new puppy, Ryker. Mike’s background is in communications and branding. He enjoys brand because it defines an organization’s purpose and helps to guide people on how they can live it out. Mike has climbed numerous 14’ers (really, really tall mountains), and can be found spending time with family, friends, or on any hiking trail around town. His life motto: If you can dream it, you can do it!

• Lily Benjamin

  Marketing Manager

  Lily accidentally moved to Colorado from Cleveland in 2013 when she couldn’t get down from the incline. She has always been people driven and loves putting herself in personas’ shoes to figure out what they want from our clients. Lily went to Colorado College where she received a degree in Economics and was captain of the varsity lacrosse team. In her spare time, she likes to ski, hike and explore Denver with her friends.

• Mark Rantal

  Senior Designer

  Mark Rantal is a graphic designer whose work is driven by a daily game between soaring narcissism and crippling self-doubt. He appreciates and strives for simplicity and eloquence in his work and has grown to appreciate big, scary questions and those who discuss them boldly. He is also an award-winning improv comedian, producer, host, and was a #1 trending story on Facebook for eating Chipotle burritos 108 consecutive days. Mark does not own a pet fox yet.

• Karen Waldon

  Senior Marketing Specialist

  From Karen’s early decision to major in math, she has gravitated to jobs centered around “problem-solving”. Her various roles include inventory management, business analyst, and marketing manager and specialist to name a few. Sunsets, good vodka, dark chocolate, the sound of her children laughing and spreadsheets are just a few of her favorite things. Karen relies on her ability to ask good questions in order to navigate the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing. She also stressed out writing this bio.

• Becca Sheffield

  Digital Marketing Specialist

  Becca considers herself an honorary Colorado native, having lived here since she was 6 years old and “before it was cool.” She loves all things related to language and storytelling, which includes writing creatively, reading fiction, learning new languages, and visibly cringing when people use incorrect grammar or spelling. Becca will take just about any excuse to salsa dance, dress up in costume, or drink a chai tea latte. The Mayan calendar indicates that her spirit animal is an armadillo, which might explain her feisty demeanor, her connection to nature, and her tendency to curl up into a ball on weekends. It does not explain her lack of a tough exterior or her debilitating fear of moths.

• Matt Gallant

  Web Developer

  Matt is a web developer with a passion for the outdoors. When he is not working, you can usually find him pursuing one of his many outdoor hobbies with a couple of dogs close behind. A transplant from Florida, Matt has years of agency experience dealing with a large variety of clients around the country.

• Marisa Williams

  Social Media Specialist

  Marisa’s background is in using social platforms as a consumer-brand relationship bridge, lead generation and awareness as well as other forms of digital marketing. She has experience in working with non-profits, small businesses, churches and large organizations to help them all master the Facebook algorithm and Mark Zuckerberg’s brain. Marisa received a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In her free time, Marisa is chasing her toddler, reading, cuddling with her Great Dane and spending as much as possible with her husband and kids.

• Josh Steinfeld

  Media Relations

  Joshua Steinfeld brings 18 years of public relations to the Magneti team. Before joining Magneti, Joshua worked with many high-profile brands including IBM, Little Debbie Snack Cake, Bayer Corp., and The Americans with Disabilities Act, along with several nonprofits, niche service providers, and start-up technology firms. He specializes in media relations, media training, and crisis management. He has generated press coverage in many high-profile outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Today Show, and U.S. News & World Report.

• Emilie Jimenez

  Copywriter

  Emilie Jimenez wrote her first book in the 2nd grade and hasn’t written one since. She has written a whole lot of other things, though. When she’s not writing at a local coffee shop, you’ll find her in the mountains adventuring with her husband and two daughters (or trying to sneak away from her husband and two daughters to read a good book).

• Gary Magnone

  Lead SEO Strategist

  Gary has studied search engines and the way they interact with websites since 2009. A lot has changed since then, but one thing hasn’t – his passion for figuring out why some sites rank highly and some sites don’t. In addition to SEO, Gary’s passions include improv comedy, live music, craft beer, coffee, and re-runs of Seinfeld.

• David Lucas

  Research Director

  David brings expertise to developing positioning and messaging, and manages all research projects. With a decade of experience managing marketing and fundraising campaigns, David has developed brand and positioning platforms for dozens of for-profit and non-profit organizations around the nation.

• Heather Lucas

  Research Analyst

  Heather is a veteran market researcher with a particular skill for getting to actionable insights. Her mix of academic training in methodology, originally in the HR field, along with her client-side leadership of a research and insights department, allows her to unpack relevant findings with empathy and sensitivity for the stakeholders in the room. Heather would like to be as creative and funny as others on the Magneti team, but let’s face it, she’s the market researcher who enjoys making sense of complex datasets.

• Thomas Dangerfield

  Brand Consultant

  Thomas Dangerfield spent the last fifteen years helping some of the world’s biggest companies create and grow their value through brand and business strategy, brand experience design, global message architectures, global media architectures, and strategic marketing communications. Thomas loves big problems as well as helping clients achieve sustainable brand-driven growth.