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 fifteen years and nine-year-old son put up with a lot. This summer Adam will be celebrating his nineteenth 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.

• Jon Hoppin

  Chief of Global Development

  Jon has worked with the nonprofit sector for over ten years and is passionate about developing new strategies for restoration and renewal in all types of communities all over the world. Jon has also been doing web design for over a decade and loves connecting with people and promoting his passions through social media. He also loves the outdoors, theology, travel, and technology. In addition to his work with Magneti, Jon works for Nexus International doing long-term leadership development. He lives in Colorado with his wife and his kids.

• Ray Cameron

  Digital Marketing Director

  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).

• Anthony Hyatt

  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.

• Maggie Bartlett

  Marketing Manager

  Maggie has extensive experience working in startups, nonprofits, healthcare and technology. She has successfully executed large and small-scale marketing campaigns to generate leads, create brand awareness and build customer loyalty. Maggie received a business and journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a passionate Tar Heels fan. In her free time, Maggie enjoys writing, backpacking, traveling and spending time with her husband.

• 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!

• Mark Rantal

  Creative Director

  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.

• Chris Kruse

  Web Developer

  Chris is our web dev who also likes to occasionally get lost in the woods. He is an avid hiker, camper and Miami Dolphins fan. He has two dogs, Kona and Piper, but would have 400 more if they were more affordable. He is a problem solver originally from Orlando FL, everybody give it up for Chris Kruse!

• Anna Hoglund

  Email Specialist

  Anna grew up in Phoenix and moved to Colorado for the hiking, skiing, kayaking and rollerblading. She has a degree in Journalism, PR and Marketing from Baylor University. Anna is drawn to marketing because it requires both right and left-brained thinking to solve problems and create solutions. Marketing is both a science and art, and she loves finding new ways to communicate with people across different mediums. She loves to read, doodle, travel and go to aquariums!

• 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.

• Karen Waldon

  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 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.

• Lily Benjamin

  Marketing Specialist

  Lily accidentally moved to Colorado Springs from Cleveland, OH in 2013 when she couldn’t get down from the incline. Luckily, she had all of her belongings and Colorado College accepted her as a winter start, where she majored in Economics and was captain of the varsity lacrosse team. In her spare time, she likes to ski, hike, be with friends and get lost in her new city, Denver.

• Brenna Skattebo

  Executive Assistant

  Brenna’s background is in content and social media marketing in the nonprofit sector. She loves editing, has a keen eye for detail, and appreciates good aesthetics — whether in a room or on an Instagram grid. Brenna grew up in Colorado Springs and moved to New York City for college where she received a degree in Media, Culture, and the Arts and a minor in Business Administration. She quickly realized she needed nature and now lives happily in Colorado with her husband.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.