Pamela Knox
With 20 years of direct marketing and entrepreneurial business development and branding, Pamela Knox focuses on identifying innovative and cost effective approaches to the challenge of growing revenue while building a brand. In both US and overseas markets, she has been on the forefront of designing and implementing marketing strategies and the teams required to support them.
Pamela’s career has spanned the financial services, telecom, and e-tail industries, and enabled her to develop a broad set of approaches and problem-solving skills to the issues and challenges confronting businesses today. Her direct management experience enables her to balance bringing strategic vision to new endeavors, while being able to dive in and outline the hands on requirements necessary to get the job done.
With established brands like American Express, Citibank, and Ameritech as a basis to hone her Branding and Direct Marketing skill set, Pamela has been able to apply that experience to more developing brands and entrepreneurial ventures like Atlantic Cellular, 1800Flowers.com, and RedEnvelope. Utilizing both offline and online branding and direct response vehicles (such as Advertising, DRTV (direct response television), online advertising, search, affiliate programs, direct mail, telemarketing, catalog, statement communications, direct sales and public relations activities) as well as strategic partnership and business development initiatives, she seeks to identify the right combination of channels to build revenue in a manner that is consistent with the brand’s value proposition. Applying database analytics for modeling, reporting, customer segmentation, and program development, she is able to recommend efficient resource allocation while increasing marketing effectiveness.
Pamela holds a BA, cum laude from Wheaton College, and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Mary Ann McGinley
Ms. McGinley is a high energy strategic thinker who knows how to deliver results. Mary Ann is a generalist with specialties in direct, digital, and loyalty marketing. She has started up departments and introduced effective new marketing strategies for start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Mary Ann has over 20 years experience in building brands and developing marketing strategies ranging from lead generation, retention, data analytics, CRM, partnership and promotion marketing, NBD, and loyalty.
Mary Ann’s recent positions include:
- VP of Direct Marketing and Loyalty at Ann Taylor
- VP of Video Sales Promotion at Columbia House
- VP of Partnerships and Promotion at 1-800-flowers.com
- Senior Director at American Express
She holds a B.S. in Business Administration and English Literature from Marymount College and an MBA from Pace University. She has studied on scholarship at Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland and holds a Professional Certificate in Digital Marketing from NYU.