Our Story
The iconic Robin Williams once said, “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Magneti was born on that simple premise. We wake up every day knowing that our efforts make a difference. Magneti thrives on building and sharing great ideas. We are a team with diverse talents and deeply believe in our ability to drive lasting impact. We invest in talent, and that talent drives exceptional results for our clients. We don’t just fantasize about great solutions — we come to work every day and work hard to exceed expectations.
Our goal is to become the most effective and innovative marketing company in the world, and we’d love some company along the way.
Our Team
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Adam Williams
Executive ChairmanAdam Williams is the Executive Chairman 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.
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Jesse Marble
Chief Executive OfficerJesse’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.
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Ray Cameron
Director of Digital MarketingRay 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.
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Ben Robb
Director of Strategic EngagementBen’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).
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Kyle Morrison
Director of SalesKyle has spent the past five years in technology companies developing a passion for serving people with valuable services that change the way they do business. Kyle is a relationship master and loves speaking with anyone about why they do what they do better than anyone else. Kyle has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Texas A&M University and you can find him snowboarding, hiking with his wife Amy and labra-doodle Indi or reading a great book over a cup of coffee.
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Anthony Hyatt
Marketing DirectorAnthony started at Magneti as an intern some years ago and knows a mildly concerning amount of the team’s long history of inside jokes. A former Senior Marketing Manager, he oscillates his time between using a Thesaurus, excavating the brilliance of his colleagues, and working very hard on generating original thoughts.
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.
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Mike Clothier
Senior Marketing ManagerMike 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!
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Lily Benjamin
Marketing ManagerLily 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.
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Arlis Mongold
Marketing ManagerArlis has an eclectic marketing background which touches on industries as diverse as designer toys, RFID applications, stand-up comedy promotion, alternative coffee, and data center solutions – in addition to serving five years as the Marketing Director of a bustling nonprofit arts center. In his spare time, Arlis has won awards for writing short fiction and enjoys travel photography (he misses you, France!). To relieve stress, he writes bios of himself in third person, creates abstract paintings, slaughters mortals in Scrabble, and occasionally performs stand-up comedy. Okay, that’s a lie. Stand-up doesn’t relieve stress, but it’s still fun (sometimes)!
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Renae Newman
Marketing ManagerRenae Newman is currently penning her bio. Reflecting on memories of days past, enriching experiences, formative occassions, and what led her from Perth, Australia, to Denver, Colorado. Now at Magneti, she’s already adding years of in-depth marketing experience and strategy to the projects she’s championing.
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Mark Rantal
Senior DesignerMark 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.
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Karen Waldon
Senior Marketing SpecialistFrom 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.
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Becca Sheffield
Digital Marketing SpecialistBecca 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.
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Matt Gallant
Web DeveloperMatt 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.
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Spencer Brown
PPC ManagerSpencer grew up in Lakewood, Colorado and currently lives in Denver. He started his marketing career in 2015 and has loved it from the start! Spencer plays soccer every week and tries to stay active during all seasons. When he’s not running around, he enjoys reading, cooking and being with family.
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Marisa Williams
Social Media SpecialistMarisa’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.
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Josh Steinfeld
Media RelationsJoshua 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.
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Emilie Jimenez
CopywriterEmilie 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).
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Gary Magnone
Lead SEO StrategistGary 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.
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David Lucas
Research DirectorDavid 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.
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Heather Lucas
Research AnalystHeather 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.
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Thomas Dangerfield
Brand ConsultantThomas 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.
Awards and Listings
2019 AWARDS
- #1915 on the Inc. 5000 for 2019
- ColoradoBiz Top Company in Digital Marketing
- #333 on the Entrepreneur 360
- Denver Creative Agency Directory
- HubSpot’s Top Digital Marketing Agencies in Denver
2018 AWARDS
- #1666 on the Inc. 5000 for 2018
- Finalist for the Best Place to Work in CO for 2018
- #310 on the 2018 Entrepreneur 360
2018 ADDY
- Silver American Advertising Award | Consumer Website – Glazier Clinics
2017 ADDY
- Silver American Advertising Award | Integrated Brand Identity Campaign – Employers Council
- Silver American Advertising Award | Spread, Multiple Page or Insert Single Unit, Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC
- Silver American Advertising Award | Logo Design, Employers Council
- Silver American Advertising Award | B2B Website, Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC
- Silver American Advertising Award | Consumer Website, David C Cook
- Silver American Advertising Award | B2B Website, Employers Council
2016 ADDY
- Best of Digital American Advertising Award | B2B Website – Magneti
- Gold American Advertising Award | B2B Website – Magneti
- Gold American Advertising Award | Logo Design – OutThere Colorado
- Gold American Advertising Award | Spread, Multiple Page or Insert Single Unit – Colorado Springs Chamber and EDC, Human Meet Nature
- Silver American Advertising Award | B2B Website – FoodMaven
- Silver American Advertising Award | Website – Cave of the Winds Mountain Park
2015 ADDY
- Best of Digital American Advertising Award | Consumer Website – Springs Rescue Mission
- Gold American Advertising Award | Consumer Website – Springs Rescue Mission
- Silver American Advertising Award | Integrated Branded Content – US Olympic Museum
- Silver American Advertising Award | Consumer Website – US Olympic Museum
- Silver American Advertising Award | Collateral Material – Springs Rescue Mission
2014 AWARDS
- Colorado Springs Small Business Development Center & the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado Small Business Awards
- Small Business Person of the Year (Adam)
- Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Jesse)
2014 ADDY
- Gold American Advertising Award | Integrated Campaign – Kyton Industries “Get the Goods”
- Silver American Advertising Award | Integrated Campaign – Springs Rescue Mission “Neighbors of Hope”
- Silver American Advertising Award | Internet Commercials – UCCS College of Business
2013 ADDY
- Gold American Advertising Award | Integrated Campaign – Launch High School
- Gold American Advertising Award | Integrated Campaign – Raise the Barn
- Silver American Advertising Award | Internet Commercials – Raise the Barn
- Silver American Advertising Award | Internet Commercials – Colorado College