Leadership
MarketBridge is Led by a Senior Leadership Team with Deep
Sales & Marketing Experience
Tim Furey, Chairman & CEO
As CEO of MarketBridge, Tim has led MarketBridge’s growth since 1992 and established it as the leader in business-to-business sales and marketing strategy-thru-execution services. Tim has worked directly with over thirty Fortune 1000 senior leadership teams through the process of transforming their go-to-market strategies to adapt to digital technology evolution. He is a frequent speaker and author on Sales & Marketing performance effectiveness and is the author of "The Channel Advantage", the definitive channel strategy and management guide.
Prior to MarketBridge, Tim worked with Boston Consulting Group, Mercer Consulting, and the Marketing Science Institute. He currently serves on several public and private boards. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Bill Burkart, Group Vice President
As group vice president of MarketBridge Interactive business unit, Bill leads his team in deploying strategy, media, content and analytic resources to help clients enhance demand generation, optimize pipeline performance, and develop their installed base. Bill has more than 25 years experience directing global giants such as Oracle, Coca-Cola, and HP in optimizing marketing performance, deploying demand generation strategies, and gaining greater utilization of the web to expand markets.
Prior to MarketBridge, Bill was the managing partner of Grey Global Group’s High Tech marketing practice, leading a team of 200 professionals. He has both M.B.A. and undergraduate degrees from Saint Louis University.
Rick Rose, Group Vice President
As group vice present, Rick leads two MarketBridge units, the Integrated Solutions Group (ISG), which provides turn-key multi-channel marketing and sales solutions, and Sales Services, which offers customized sales programs. Rick possesses a wealth of integrated sales and marketing strategy and execution experience.
Previously, Rick served as an executive at Dendrite International, the pharmaceutical industry's leading provider of integrated sales and marketing solutions. While at Dendrite, Rick built its Marketing Services unit from an $18 million commodity service provider in 2003 to a $60 million full-service integrated marketing partner for leading pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Dendrite, Rick was a leader in the management buyout of a CRM technology services firm, Tech Resource Group (TRG). He holds a bachelor's degree in organizational management from Eastern University.
John Shomaker, Group Vice President
As the group vice president of the Strategy & Operational Consulting business unit, John oversees the expert practices in Marketing Management, Sales & Distribution, and Analytics & Measurement, as well as the firm’s focus on global technology, communications, financial services, and life sciences. Widely recognized for his expertise in balancing quantitative-based strategy development with organizational transformation, John employs a combination of strategic guidance, analytic-based decision making, and organizational design methodologies.
Possessing more than 15 years of management consulting experience, John has worked with Fortune 500 leaders such as HP, Cisco, and Avaya. He began his career with Goldman Sachs and Accenture, and has both M.B.A. and undergraduate degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.
David Bradley, Senior Vice President
Dave Bradley leads the Marketing Management practice for MarketBridge and manages the firm’s Bellevue, Wash. office. Dave joined MarketBridge in September 2007, marking a return to management consulting after a 15-year career in consumer and high-tech marketing leadership roles. As Marketing Management practice lead, Dave is focused on providing market insight, product and solution marketing strategy support, and multi-channel go-to-market program support to leading B2B companies.
Prior to joining MarketBridge, Dave served as chief marketing officer for Corbis, a Seattle-based digital media company. Before that he was senior vice president SAP Global Marketing, responsible for competitive and market intelligence, product marketing, industry solution marketing, and field marketing. Dave began his high-tech marketing career at IBM, where he led key marketing initiatives including the creation of a category marketing capability for the PC business and the transformation of ibm.com from a corporate Web site to a TeleWeb channel business. Dave received M.B.A. and B.S.B.A. degrees from Boston University. He and his wife, Jean, and daughter, Sarah, live in Seattle.
Scott Gillum, Senior Vice President
A senior vice president and leader of the Financial Services practice, Scott focuses on using MarketBridge proprietary knowledge and experience with complex B2B2C business models to help clients in Retail Banking, the Credit Card Industry and Insurance. Scott and his team have helped clients in the Financial Services industry developed innovative ways to develop and bring new products to market, improve market coverage and growth through the deployment of new channels of distribution, and increase the overall performance of sales and marketing investments.
Over the last 10 years he has also led the Marketing Management and Marketing Services practices, and he continues to direct the marketing activities of the firm. His unique insight and use of digital media and interactive marketing has earned him MarketBridge’s Innovator’s Award for creative application of technology.
Prior to joining MarketBridge, Scott was at Tascor, a joint venture created by IBM and Norrell Corporation, where he specialized in business process outsourcing. Scott holds an M.B.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. and a B.S. degree from James Madison University.
Patrick Kehoe, Senior Vice President
As senior vice president and leader of MarketBridge’s high-tech industry practice, Patrick specializes in the design and management of complex channel systems, development of business partner and teleweb channels, and integration of sales and marketing. Throughout his career, he has advised and managed senior-level clients at many leading global organizations such as IBM, SAP, and Symantec. With over 15 years experience working with hardware, software, and services organizations, Patrick has a proven track record of leading corporate executives in defining and optimizing their marketing and sales channel strategies.Patrick started his career in GE’s Management Training Program and consulted for Computer Sciences Corporation Index (CSC Index) and Booz Allen & Hamilton’s commercial practice. He earned his MBA at the University of Virginia’s Darden School and graduated with a B.S. degree magna cum laude in computer science and mathematics from Vanderbilt University.
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