Managing Team
Riggs Eckelberry founded TechTransform in February 2001. A technology operator with a strong focus on sales and marketing, he continues to drive the firm's engagements, bringing his personal relationships and "tactical strategy" business approach to bear on every client assignment.
Scott Gordon has over 15 years marketing and sales experience, specializing in technology companies. He brings to the TechTransform team his online marketing expertise, which includes skills vital to technology acceleration such as online lead generation, user acquisition and conversion, viral and social network marketing, and online communications strategies.
Operating Team
Kristin is involved in all levels of management to implement marketing communications, public relations and online search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns, as well as advertising and major events.
Steve Glovsky has been helping executives align what they’re selling with customers and investors for over fifteen years. “If you can’t strategize, market, sell and contract by the quarter you’re two steps behind your competition.”
Stefan Jacobs, the senior member of TechTransform's Convergence Team, possesses deep domain experience in the media and marketing industries. Jacobs' areas of expertise include business development, strategy, start-up operations, and team building.
A key member of the TechTransform Convergence team, Kevin O'Brien has a unique combination of traditional marketing and "new economy" channel experience.
Advisory Team
Jim Courtney has been executing business planning and business development activities for the Canadian market for over 30 years. Most recently his activities have encompassed businesses that apply Internet and associated technologies to the medical, automotive, telecommunications, XML software and location-based services markets.
Kevin Pestinger comes to TechTransform with a deep understanding of how to achieve product distribution through new and traditional sales channels efficiently. He has spent the last several years helping to bring about the emerging convergence between brick and mortar and online merchants, and the distribution of local information to meet consumer demands.
Edan Portaro has been nurturing sales teams and executing on sales plans for the last several years – in the trenches, serving as SVP of Sales with such companies as Monster Worldwide (formerly TMP Worldwide) and YellowPages.com, where he helped sell the company for a record sum to a consortium of SBC and BellSouth.
Stéphane Ruiz currently represents TechTransform's interests in France. Until recently, Stephan was Controller of a former unit of GE Transportation in Los Angeles, and previously in the same role at Syseca Inc. (Groupe Thomson CSF / Thales). He also served in Mexico for Syseca, and has an earlier background in financial auditing and product management.
Formally trained as an electrical engineer, Christian Staller has held many executive positions in the last 19 years, ranging from Product Development to Sales Management, from Customer Support to Field Services, from Strategic Marketing to Corporate Business Development. Much of his professional success has centered on solution-selling, relationship team building and executive leadership.
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