PATRICK DI CHIRO |
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Patrick Di Chiro is President, CEO and founder
of THUNDER FACTORY. A 23-year veteran of international
strategy consulting, marketing and communications, Patrick works
with Fortune 100 companies and start-up technology companies
to help them create powerful brands, growing revenues and global
leadership positions. Patrick oversees the company's strategic
direction, operations and financial activities. In addition,
he plays a senior consultative and quality control role on all
THUNDER FACTORY client engagements.
Prior to founding THUNDER FACTORY, Patrick was Chief
Communications Officer of E*TRADE Group, Inc., the Internet
pioneer and global online financial services leader. In that
role, he led all strategies and initiatives to protect, promote
and expand E*TRADE's corporate brand and financial services
operations worldwide. Patrick directed the company's corporate
brand marketing strategies, global external and internal communications
activities, investor relations, issues management and senior
executive communications worldwide. He led the critical marketing
and business integration efforts for a number of E*TRADE's most
important strategic acquisitions and mergers. Patrick also served
as E*TRADE's chief spokesman to the media, analysts and public
markets worldwide.
Before E*TRADE, Patrick served as Vice President of Marketing
for Visa International's Internet Products and Services Division.
He had senior responsibility for directing global marketing
and business development strategies to drive market share for
Visa's technology-based products. Earlier, Patrick was a partner
at Ketchum, the world's 6th largest public relations and integrated
marketing-communications firm. While at Ketchum he directed
the agency's activities in the Asia-Pacific region, and managed
several global clients, including American Express, Visa International,
Reebok and Philips.
Previously, Patrick served as Director of International Communications
for American Express Company, and he was VP of Marketing and
Client Services for Armando Testa, Italy's largest ad agency.
Patrick can be reached at (650) 286-7353.
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| THOMAS
C. EDWARDS |
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Tom Edwards is Chairman of THUNDER FACTORY.
A 22-year veteran of strategic business development and marketing,
Tom works closely with corporate management, partners and investors
worldwide to create profitable new business opportunities, as
well as reposition and strengthen existing businesses for strong
growth and success. He leads business opportunities for clients
by refocusing operational and financial strategies, creating
and managing marketing channel and technology development opportunities,
and driving innovative, brand-building partnerships.
Prior to joining THUNDER FACTORY, Tom was recruited by
the founder and CEO of SkyMall, Inc. to create, reposition and
turn around a range of businesses for this leading catalog aggregator.
As President of SkyMall Ventures, Tom repositioned the core
SkyMall catalog business into an e-commerce specialty retailer.
In that capacity, he increased SkyMall's e-commerce revenues
by more than 800 percent, and grew the e-commerce group's share
of total revenues to over 30 percent. He also created two standalone
businesses within SkyMall - one which managed end-to-end customer
loyalty redemption and fulfillment solutions for a wide range
of leading corporations. The other business was an interactive
DVD enterprise that was a joint venture with Ritek, the major
Tawian-based optical disk manufacturer.
From 1989 to early 1999, Tom was one of Visa USA's most senior
executives in strategic business development, e-commerce and
marketing. Most recently, he created and led a new Visa division
that was charged with developing, financing and operating strategic
business opportunities outside of Visa's existing core card
payment industry competencies. As Senior VP of Emerging Technologies
and Business Development for Visa, Tom led acquisitions and
technology solutions development that resulted in several revenue-generating
business initiatives for Visa in key areas such as e-commerce,
broadband, B2B and order conveyance.
Previously, Tom was Vice President, Marketing and Product Development
for Citicorp Credit Services, and Directory of Travel and Lodging
Industry Marketing for American Express Company, both in New
York City. Tom understands entrepreneurs because he has been
one throughout his career. In the early eighties, he helped
to found -- and led all marketing activities for --Protocom
Devices, a start-up data communications company that he would
take public in a $10 million IPO. Tom earned both his MBA and
BA degrees from Pennsylvania State University. Tom can be
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| DAVID
MASTER |
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David Master is Executive Vice President in
New York City. David brings over 20 years of planning,
product development, managerial and marketing expertise in financial
services and technology-based enterprises. Based in the New
York City area, David plays a key role in managing THUNDER FACTORY
clients on the East Coast.
Prior to his affiliation with THUNDER FACTORY, David was a Managing
Director of the Optima Group, a national consultancy serving
investment industry. At Optima Group, he managed a broad range
of client engagements, including business analysis and strategy
assessment, managerial facilitation, product development, and
marketing program design and implementation. Among his clients
were: Farmers Insurance, First Chicago/NBD, General Motors,
National City Bank, Prudential Financial, Scudder Funds, and
TIAA-CREF.
David joined Optima Group from the Chase Manhattan Bank, where
he was a senior manager with the Vista Mutual Funds as well
as the Global Investor Services Division, responsible for strategic
planning and building new revenue opportunities in areas such
as asset management, defined contribution & retirement services,
cash management, and foreign exchange. Prior to Chase, he was
head of Account Management for the Fiduciary Services Group
at the Bank of New England Corporation and Director of Marketing
for Commercial Banking.
Before focusing on financial services, David spent a significant
number of years consulting to private developers and government
agencies on energy and environmental matters, including such
areas as independent power production, alternative energy technologies,
and technology transfer.
David received an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College and
an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.
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| JOHN
McCLAVE |
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John brings 25 years of experience in advertising
and integrated marketing communications to THUNDER FACTORY.
His experience as a writer and creative director runs the gamut
from print and broadcast ad campaigns to collateral materials,
corporate videos, website content, direct marketing, trade shows,
annual reports, product promotions and corporate positioning
programs.
Prior to joining THUNDER FACTORY, John was creative director
and managing director of the San Francisco office of the London-based
Citigate Group, an integrated communications agency focused
primarily on corporate, financial services and technology clients.
There, John led the development of campaigns for such clients
as CNF Transportation and Emery Worldwide, Morgan Stanley Online,
investment bankers Hambrecht & Quist, GT Global Mutual Funds
and Vestek Systems.
Before Citigate, John was with Grey Advertising in San Francisco
for seven years, starting as an associate creative director,
then promoted to creative director. There his clients included
Bank of America, Consolidated Freightways (later to become CNF),
Farmland Industries, Wyse Technologies and Dialog Information
Services.
The early part of John's career was spent in a variety of roles
in advertising agencies as well as a stint on the client side
at Bank of America, plus two years in independent video production.
Throughout his career, John has embraced the concept of truly
integrated communications, without bias towards a particular
medium or method as the solution for all challenges, and creating
a consistent brand experience at every point that reaches the
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| GREG
XENAKIS |
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Greg Xenakis is Executive Vice President of
THUNDER FACTORY. Greg is an experienced strategic and
tactical marketing communications professional, whose consulting
experience has spanned almost two decades in Silicon Valley.
During this time, he has both participated in and been a student
of the fascinating evolution and maturation of high-tech industries.
In addition to technology and e-commerce, Greg has significant
experience in financial services, telecommunications, corporate
communications, and high-level media strategy and program execution.
He has helped to advance products and technologies in a wide
range of market segments, and has held management and consulting
positions in multi-national corporations, startups, industry
consortia, corporate business units, and several marketing communications
firms. Greg is an accomplished and versatile marketing writer
with many ghosted and by-lined articles, dozens of white papers
and backgrounders, and hundreds of press releases to his credit.
Most recently, Greg was a seed investor, consultant and strategic
communications advisor to Portelco, a Hong Kong-based wireless
ASP and mobile commerce enabler working with telecommunications
firms and Internet-based media companies. Prior to this engagement,
he served in a transitional VP role for Neale-May & Partners
where he co-managed the E*TRADE account and consulted on agency
growth, staff training, and productivity.
Greg also served as Director of Corporate Communications at
both Signio (acquired by Verisign) and Vicinity (now publicly
traded). For both of these Internet startups, he established
strong base-line corporate and product positioning, built communications
programs for key audiences, and managed the development of corporate
web sites. Earlier in his career, he was the group PR manager
for Sun Microsystems responsible for launching the SPARC brand,
and served as VP of program and membership marketing at SPARC
International, an industry trade association that he helped
grow to more than 250 member companies. |
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