Founded in 1996, Antics is a digital marketing firm with a powerful combination of software and services to help you build stronger and more profitable relationships with your customers.
, co-founder and president. Charlie works actively with clients, and for the last 13 years has guided successful digital marketing programs for Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Netscape, EarthLink, Capcom, Klutz, and PayPal. Charlie served as Vice President of Marketing for Advanced Remote Technologies, Inc. and has held marketing and product marketing positions at Hasbro, Digital Pictures, and electronic toy company Axlon. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and product design from Stanford University.
, co-founder, chief technology officer and award-winning creative director. For over 12 years, Kevin has provided marketing strategy, positioning, messaging and creative for leading brands including Sun, Netscape, Yahoo!, PayPal, KPMG, and AMD. He specializes in using technology to increase marketing effectiveness and lower costs which helps explain the odd combination of job titles and has a patent for a digital marketing sales tool technology. Prior to Antics, Kevin was a co-founder and Vice President of Marketing at Digital Pictures, Inc. He's been a video game producer/designer, a C/C++ programmer, a product manager at Hasbro, and has worked on TV commercials from Men's Wearhouse to Budweiser Super Bowl ads. He's an intstrument-rated pilot and flies his own airplane. He has an undergraduate degree in Film and Television from Marquette University and a graduate degree in Business from Syracuse University.
, general manager, agency services. Kathryn brings 25 years of marketing experience to Antics Digital Marketing. Her expertise is in the deep tech, "techsumer," and financial services sectors, where she has planned and executed a wide range of acquisition, retention, loyalty, sales support and channel building initiatives in both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer arenas. She has held agency management positions at Rivet, Marketing Drive, Foote Cone & Belding, Grey Direct, Bozell, and Poppe Tyson, and has been actively engaged in work for clients including Visa, Adobe Systems, Fujitsu, LucasArts Entertainment, Palm, Siemens, Sony, and Toshiba, to name just a few. Kathryn holds BA, MA, and PhC degrees in Comparative Literature from the Universities of California, Illinois, and Washington.
, vice president, client services. Amy has held various marketing, product marketing and emarketing positions at both large and small companies. As Vice President of Marketing & Internet Channel at Xerox Corporation, Amy built a marketing and development organization, defined the corporation's online brand, and rearchitected the user experience and technical infrastructure for xerox.com. Amy also worked in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing roles at Xerox. At Angara E-Commerce Services, Amy worked with various clients in the business-to-consumer space, advising them on targeted messaging, customer segmentation models, and content testing methodologies and analytics. She has also held marketing and strategy positions at Shaklee Corporation and Mars & Co Consulting. Amy holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.
, editorial director. Linda has worked in all aspects of digital and print communications. She began her career as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times and was Managing Editor at Modern Maturity (now AARP The Magazine) during a period when its circulation grew from 7 to 22 million. She moved to the business side of publishing, working as Director of Marketing for a Tribune Co. newspaper and subsequently held senior marketing positions all of which contained a strong content development components at Transamerica, CyberSource, and Staffing Industry Analysts (Crain Communications) as well as a number of e-commerce/internet startups.
, vice president, engineering. Gordon has worked for many years in engineering, including work for NASA/JPL, Silicon Graphics, Blue Martini and WatchGuard technologies. He has a wide ranging background in signal processing, web application development and computer security. He holds a BSEE from Carnegie Mellon University and an MSEE from California Institute of Technology.
, art director. A native of Belgium, Lode (pronounced Lo-da) has directed computer graphics, visual design, and interface design at Hasbro Electronics, Hyperpro, MicroUnity Systems, and Digital Pictures. Before his tenure in the United States, Lode directed graphics for Belgian National Television, and was a professor of media design at the Saint-Lucas College of Arts. He has taught workshops in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Finland. Lode holds a graphic design diploma from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, and is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.