Katey Charles Darpel founded Katey Charles Communications, a St. Louis-based email marketing agency, in 2003 to meet the growing need for expert consulting and creative services in the emerging email marketing industry. Since then she has helped her clients grow their email databases and send strategic email marketing campaigns that establish positive B2B and B2C relationships and drive sales. Katey thrives on personally getting to know her clients and their businesses so that she can provide personalized, sound counsel.
Katey’s true passion is excellence in communication in any form. She has more than 20 years of experience in digital and print marketing, strategic communications, writing, editing and graphic design for a wide range of media including email, web, social, print and radio. This broad perspective helps her understand the vital role email marketing plays in an overall marketing and communications strategy.
Nick Crawford, Owner of Twist Consultancy
Nick’s mission is to help businesses win and retain customers with relevant and engaging marketing by reshaping their strategy, delivery and training.
Working with B2C & B2B clients for over 15 years, he has a deep understanding of data-driven marketing & strategic planning. Experience spans across CRM, Direct Marketing & Automation, with a specialism in email and cross channel integration.
An elected member of the DMA Email council and IDM Tutor of their Digital Diploma. Nick also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Marketing from the Institute of Data and Marketing (IDM)
Dela Quist, is CMO of Alchemy Worx, the largest email marketing agency. He is a highly experienced expert email marketer with a strong background in digital media and advertising.
Services include: email marketing strategy, email marketing best practice, email campaign planning, email design, email copywriting, HTML email production, email campaign deployment, email delivery and reputation, spam filter avoidance, reporting, and analysis.
Loren McDonald
Marketing Strategist/Content Marketer
Loren consults with companies to maximize revenue, leads, and customer retention through content marketing programs including webinars, thought leadership/research and email marketing. He has 36 years of experience as a consultant, marketing executive and thought leader at companies including IBM, Silverpop, Acoustic, Arthur Andersen, USWeb/CKS, EmailLabs, and Lyris.
He has written more than 500 articles, produced dozens of white papers and special reports, spoken at more than 350 conferences in 14 countries and presented on 200+ webinars. Loren has won multiple awards including 2005 Best Marketing Executive (American Business Awards - "Stevie's") and 2011 Email Marketer of the Year (Email Evolution Council).
Social Media:
Twitter: @LorenMcDonald
Led by tenured industry analyst and marketer David Daniels, The Relevancy Group (TRG) provides market research and advisory services. We measure consumer and executivebehaviors to develop strategies that optimize a return on marketing investments and drivedigital transformation.
Morgan Stewart is the Co-Founder of Trendline Interactive.
Mark Morin is an email automation expert and content strategist. He leads a dedicated team of email marketing aficionados at strategies.ca.
Skip Fidura is a consumer-centric digital marketer with over 20 years' experience on the client, agency and provider sides. Working for dotdigital, OgilvyOne and Acxiom Digital, he has helped B2B and B2C brands like BT, Fred Perry, Paul Smith, DHL and Copa Airlines have real conversations with each customer across all digital channels. Skip has also been an Executive Director at the dotDigital Group plc and a Non-executive Director of the UK DMA. As Chair of the Responsible Marketing Committee, he continues to shape the discussion and define best practice around the responsible use of data and marketing channels. He currently works with a number of companies as CMO, Non-Exec Director or Board Advisor helping them to protect and monetise their data assets.
Skip is a globally recognised data-driven marketer whose high energy talks are more about useful suggestions than buzzword bingo. Making complex concepts actionable, his talks focus on using technology to have real conversations with customers, consumer-centric uses for data and responsible marketing.
I initially started in client services at CheetahMail and Borderfree. After having spent the last 6 years at The New York Times and SiriusXM Satellite Radio, I most recently made the jump back into the agency world with Wpromote, a full-service digital marketing agency, leading their Email Marketing service offering.
Chitanya Chinta is Global Head of Email Business at Netcore, and Co-Founder and Deliverability Guy at Pepipost.
In early 2015, we started Pepipost with a single mission...
To help developers and enterprises send transactioanl emails in the most efficient way and at the most disruptive pricing ever.
Our mission has never changed.
Jenna DePofi is the Content Marketing Manager at Webbula. She manages social media, creates eye-catching content, and oversees web design. She's a jill of all trades writing a surplus of 100+ blog articles over three years in the email hygiene and data solutions space.
Webbula is the undisputed industry leader in Email Hygiene, Data Enrichment and Audience Targeting services. Check out webbula.com to see what Webbula has to offer.
Dr. Ada Y. Barlatt, Ph.D. is the Founder and Chief Analytics Officer at OperationsAlly. She helps her clients discover and leverage insights hidden within their ESP data. She loves when her clients start to see their data is a representation of the real lives they impact (instead of just a bunch of numbers). When she isn’t working with clients, you could find her on a cruise ship (pre-COVID) or watching anime (post-COVID). She loves self-assessments, laughing and gluten-free baked goods!
Website: www.operations-ally.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adabarlatt
Instagram: http://instagram.com/adabarlatt
Tom Wozniak is the head of Marketing and PR for OPTIZMO Technologies, delivering the industry’s most powerful platform for email compliance and suppression list management to clients throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Tom has over 20 years of experience in email, affiliate, and various other digital marketing channels. Prior to OPTIZMO, he was VP of Marketing at SpotX, headed up marketing at Media Breakaway, and held senior leadership roles with Trueffect and NextAction, among other companies. He regularly writes for several industry publications and speaks at various affiliate and email marketing industry events.
Gavin is a veteran of over 15 years in the email marketing industry and heads up dotdigital's thought leadership team. He’s a keen blogger, speaker, and sits on the DMA email council. He’s worked closely with organizations in B2B, B2C & NFP across Europe and the US, helping them to build their email programmes to drive increased customer experience, lifetime value, loyalty and ultimately return on investment.
Lisa S Jones is the Founder & CEO of EyeMail Inc. a multi-patent marketing technology company delivering 60+ seconds 4KUHD video-in-email experience, in the email at ~15K in size with no hyperlinks to external sources.
Sean Duffy is founder of Segmentum, an eCRM strategy & implementation agency, and Reignite, a real-time email personalisation platform.
Sean has been in the email marketing industry since 2003, initially spending 10 years at a start-up ESP, helping establish them as one of the UK's leading email marketing platforms. Since then he has also worked client-side before creating Segmentum in 2015.
Paul Shriner
Chief Evangelist, Co-Founder, AudiencePoint
Paul Shriner has been in technology since 1997. He started AudiencePoint in 2009 based on his pioneering work in time-based delivery now called Send Time Optimization. While introducing these technical advances in the email marketing space, Paul has gotten to work with digital marketing leaders from the largest brands in the world. These are the key decision-makers in the digital marketing space and will accelerate customer acquisition and increase growth.
Dustin Werner
Senior Manager, CRM, Frontdoor, Inc.
Dustin is an innovative, creative, and motivated self-starter with proven expeience who loves rolling-up his sleeves and working on vibrant result-oriented opportunities with people who understand (or want to understand) the true power of data to create engaging, long-lasting relationships with their customers.
Komal Helyer, Fractional CMO and Marketing Coach
Award winning Komal has over 20 years experience in email and digital marketing.
A passionate email marketer, Komal is Chair of the DMA Email Council. As a key industry thought leader and events speaker, Komal is also a sub Editor @ The Modern Retail and writes for many other publications.
Komal's passion to support greater diversity in the workplace is the driving force behind her commitment to mentoring individuals in the industry, she is also a Mentor @The Girls Network.
She has been nominated for many awards and was proud to win Corporate Woman of the Year '19 at the Business Woman's Excellence Awards and to be awarded a Top 50 CX Star accolade in 2021.
Connect with her on LinkedIn.