Bruce Bolger, President
Jim Kilmetis, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Edward W. Franklin, Chief Technology Consultant/Director of Production
Nick Gazivoda, Vice President of Sales
Anne-Sophie Pruvost, Director of Marketing
Bruce Bolger, President
Bolger has been involved with marketing, content creation, and technology development for publishing and marketing companies since 1982, when he developed one of the first software systems for managing print catalogs at Bill Communications Inc., now part of VNU Media Inc. With extensive experience in sales, marketing, and publishing at such companies as The Village Voice, Fairchild Communications, Bill Communications Inc., Miller Freeman (also now VNU), combined with extensive hands-out permission marketing strategies and technology at permission-marketing pioneer Selling Communications Inc., Bolger is a leading expert in helping companies profit from permission. Bolger has extensive experience in all areas related to permission marketing, including strategic planning, marketing, content design, and software development. As a founder of the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement at Northwestern University's Integrated Marketing Communications Department at the Medill School of Communications, Bolger is considered an expert in integrated external and internal marketing management, communications, and engagement. Bolger graduated from the University of Santa Barbara and University of Paris, magna cum laude, with majors in History and French.
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Jim Kilmetis, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Jim is a hands-on leader who “cuts to the chase,” ensuring his team and his clients stay on track and deliver with integrity. Jim, the co-founder of Selling Communications, has nearly 20 years of sales and sales management experience in business publishing. He held management positions at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Bill Communications (absorbed by VNU Business Media), where he more than tripled sales in his territory, and was associate publisher of Incentive magazine during its most successful years, the mid-1990s. Every business decision Jim makes is guided by the principle that, for ultimate success, there must be true integration between the marketing “story” and the sales effort. He is adept at conveying this concept to companies as it may apply to their own weak marketing-sales links. Once the weaknesses are recognized, Solata can help clients align strategies for ultimate sales success and business growth. Jim’s ongoing service to his clients is to add and customize new products, ideas and concepts to help build their businesses.
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Edward W. Franklin, Chief Technology Consultant/Director of Production
Ed has a strong background in corporate identity solutions, web site design, content management strategies/implementation and web application development. As the founder and CEO of Applied Elements, Ed has varied yet deep experience in the creative and technology worlds together. Edward was a founder and the VP of Product Development for iClips, the leading provider of personal streaming video tools on the Internet. He served as VP of Technology and acting CTO for the first nine months of the company's existence. In these roles he was originally responsible for identifying and implementing key technologies from RealNetworks, Akamai and Microsoft to build this scalable video IP-based application. He defined the creative and product strategy for the iClips suite of tools and their implementation as well as defining the integration strategy with companies such as Yahoo, NBCi and Homestead. Previously he was the Director of Internet Media for NexusGroup, where he created and launched the company's Studio division, it's fastest growing services group in 1999. Clients included AT&T, Primedia and Deutsche Bank. Earlier, Ed was a Principal, Director of Corporate Internet Services for Bankers Trust Company in New York, responsible for creating the comprehensive Internet standards, content management systems, policies and procedures used by the bank today.
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Nick Gazivoda, Vice President of Sales
Nick brings clients a particular perspective, having risen up through the ranks of Selling Communications Inc., one of the first major users and resellers of Solata technology. Nick began right out of college as a telephone salesperson for SCI’s target marketing agency and rose to become director of sales in charge of major integrated marketing, sales, and media accounts. In this capacity, he not only sells technology but also uses technology to achieve his sales goals. This first-hand experience of technology from both the sales force and management’s view makes him an ideal partner in determining precisely how to take advantage of Solata to meet specific client needs, both short- and long-term. Nick works closely with the implementation team to make sure that what gets promised, gets delivered. Nick is also true to his roots: he is an accomplished musician of Albanian folk songs who has performed throughout the United States.
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Anne-Sophie Pruvost, Director of Marketing
Part of Solata’s strength is the way it integrates marketing and sales. Anne-Sophie uses Solata to manage our own target marketing and relationship building strategies, including e-mail and print newsletters, our Web site, presentations, and other activities. Anne-Sophie is an accomplished marketing supervisor with hands-on experience managing almost every type of marketing touch point, from trade show and Web site to seminar and PowerPoint presentation. Anne-Sophie will help support Solata’s international expansion, aided by the fact that she is a French citizen and travels frequently to Europe. She graduated with highest honors from the ESCIP - Saint-Omer, France -, an international business school and majored in Marketing, Management and English.
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