Kevin Payne, Managing Director
Kevin has over 37 years of technology marketing experience, ranging from start-ups to medium-sized companies. During his career he’s been responsible for launching and rebranding businesses, building and deploying a variety of integrated marketing and PR/media campaigns, demand generation programs, content marketing, events, managing business development teams and partner marketing.
Throughout his career, he’s built a network of relationships with a variety of talented individuals and businesses with additional specialized marketing expertise.
Kevin has a Bachelors degree in Marketing Management from San Jose State University and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He’s a frequent blogger and author of Marketing Physics - A Memoir of Fear, Loathing and Laughs in Silicon Valley Tech Marketing, about his career in tech marketing and lessons learned.
Kevin is also a mentor with SCORE, an organization that provides volunteer mentoring to help small businesses, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Pear Theater in Mountain View.
He lives in San Jose with his wife Carole and his dog Cali.
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Cali the Dog is the GateHouse Associates marketing assistant and food taster. She can often be found sitting on the chair in the office napping. Her previous experience was as the marketing assistant at Zest Labs where she wandered around the office looking for people with food and at Netflix where she occasionally visits and helps to brings smiles to people's faces.
In addition to food tasting and napping, Cali excels at going on walks and smelling things, road trips and rolling in the grass.
Her work is free of charge.