Executive summaries.

Kelly O'Neil — Director of Marketing

An award-winning author, speaker, and “coachsultant,” Kelly has spent the past 7 years working exclusively with thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs both as a coach and consultant to unleash their bigger game. Her role at Fossum Creative puts her in charge of strategically marketing the agency, perpetuating our status as thought leaders, and keeping us at the forefront of the minds of our current and future clients.

With over 15 years of experience working in leading marketing agencies, emerging technology companies, and Fortune 500 companies (including Epson America, Hitachi Data Systems, Kingston Technologies, and Intuit), Kelly developed her widespread expertise in advanced business and marketing strategy. At Intuit, she was responsible for launching Quicken 98, 99, and 2000 personal finance software, as well as managing multiple brand building corporate and product public relations programs.

During the dotcom boom, Kelly was recruited by eVoice, Inc., where she successfully repositioned the company to be acquired by Time Warner AOL in 2001. It was at this time that she went out on her own to form the company now known as UpLevel Strategies, where she became the driving force behind the publicity campaign for the P2P company Morpheus in their battle to legalize digital music.

Known for her devotion to excellence, Kelly’s company has won a multitude of awards, including the PR Compass Award for Outstanding Public Relations and The ADDY Award for Branding. In addition, her company was named one of the 500 most innovative companies in America, for which she was awarded a 2004 Purple Cow Innovator award, by New York Times best selling author Seth Godin.

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