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Compeau-Fawkes, Inc. was founded in 2003 to provide technology and services marketing, communications, and business consulting to small to mid-size companies.
We have experience within a broad array of industries and business segments including high-tech/software, life sciences, chemical/materials, technology manufacturing, & professional technical services.
We work closely with clients to identify specific marketing and communications needs and opportunities, creating efficiency, customer loyalty, and growth.
About Our Founder Michael Compeau Founder and President, Mike Compeau has 20 years of experience in classical marketing, product development, technology marketing, product management, and business development. His educational background spans biology & life sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, and software programming, as well as marketing and creative arts.Mike is equally comfortable discussing your next material innovation product breakthrough, helping formulate your next software product roadmap, or helping to wordsmith your business plan to obtain funding. Over the past 20 years, Mike has applied his expertise assisting firms as diverse as Andersen Windows, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cardiac Pacemakers, Ingersoll-Rand, Mobility Electronics, Xerox, Medtronics, Biomatters Ltd, Lakehead Pipeline, Gerber Products, Cutting Edge Software, Honeywell, Aspen Research, PalmSource, Renewal by Andersen, Werner Ladder, Snapperfish, ITS Traffic, and many more.
About Our Principals Lisa Burnett With over 13 years of marketing communications experience across the spectrum of consumer durables and technology product categories, Lisa Burnett has helped industry leaders, from innovative start-ups to Fortune 100 firms with successful product launches and product positioning & repositioning. Lisa understands the importance of consistent messaging throughout all customer touch points throughout the sales cycle via website or person-to-person interactions and product user experience management.Lisa Burnett's proven track record includes strategic marketing communications, product branding, website design and web user experience, copywriting, online marketing & advertising, and point-of-sale merchandising. During Lisa's most recent role at Chapura Software, she launched seven products within 3 years and managed the evolution of the firm's website into a sales tool providing cross-sell suggestions to customers visiting the site for technical support. Lisa's creativity is imbued with common sense and an aptitude for the technical, resulting in highly effective campaigns that create results—just what great marketing is intended to create. 
Joel Evans Joel Evans is the founder and Chief Geek of Geek.com, the website praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Microsoft, Palm, and others as one of world's best sources of information for technology professionals. He combines his passion for technology and analytical and user-centered research with solid experience in sales, sales management, technical project management and product development.Joel has experience on both sides of the technology divide; as a member of the press himself through his operation of Geek.com for nearly ten years, he has learned what it takes to attract the attention of the technophile segment and create buzz around a product. With more than a decade of experience taking established brands and products into the mobile, wireless and emerging technology space--including providing assistance to Microsoft and other market leaders--Joel brings a unique perspective to Compeau-Fawkes Marketing clients.
Corrie Haffly Corrie Haffly loves to create web sites that have clean design and clean code. In addition to her skills in web site, user interface, and graphic design, Corrie brings a positive attitude, efficient and speedy processes, and a team-based mentality to Compeau-Fawkes clients.In addition to web and graphic design, Corrie is passionate about teaching and training. Corrie published _The Photoshop Anthology_ with SitePoint in 2005 and has published numerous articles and tutorials about web design and graphics. She keeps her writing skills honed by blogging prolifically about design, organization, productivity, and life.
Stephen Sandler Steve Sandler has spent over 30 years in the advertising and marketing industry--first cutting his teeth at Leo Burnett Worldwide in Chicago, followed by heading up marketing for Arby's, Inc., running his own advertising agency for a decade, and performing numerous marketing and advertising roles for various market leaders since then. Along his professional journey, Steve has brought his incredibly creative and wordsmithing touch to clients within the health & diet industry, restaurant, hospitality and services industries, technical and industrial sectors, and more.Whether working through print, web, direct mail, newsletter, radio or television, Steve Sandler has profound expertise creating powerful integrated marketing messages that capture a target audience's attention and hold them through to the close, compelling them to a change of attitude or a specific action.
Charyn Compeau As Partner in Compeau-Fawkes, Charyn Compeau has 16 years of diverse experience spanning small business operations and management, human resources, account management, and finance. Highly skilled at documenting and fine tuning routine processes for nearly any sort of business, Charyn brings a pragmatic and practical eye to her engagements with our clients.With a background as a manager and trainer with a national franchise-based firm, Charyn earned a reputation for out-performing her peers and learned to focus small business attention on key indicators that created maximum results. Her operational consulting and practical local and regional marketing savvy creates immediate results and makes quick believers.
Media & Creative Services Partners Kevin Doel / TalonPR Kevin Doel and Michael Compeau have been working together for nearly ten years since the earliest days of TalonPR. PR for technology companies is all TalonPR does, and Compeau-Fawkes has partnered with them to augment our PR services with those of Talon as needed.Through a strong focus on technology, Kevin and his team have established terrific working relationships with the editors, journalists, bloggers, podcasters and product reviewers that closely monitor and report on the latest developments. The goal has always been to treat these individuals as if they themselves are the clients—-to give members of the media what they need and want, when they want it, and in a format they can best use. This approach has enabled TalonPR to produce outstanding media exposure for all those in the TalonPR “family.” TalonPR has twice received the honor of being named the winner of MobileVillage's Gold Star award in the category of "Public Relations Firms," recognizing the quality of service provided to mobile technology developers and the journalists who report on them.
Mike Rohde / MakaluMedia Mike Rohde is a visual designer with a passion for simple, effective and usable online design. Through a special partnership with MakaluMedia, based in Germany, Compeau-Fawkes benefits from access to Mike's rich background in web and graphic design--helping Compeau-Fawkes clients to build web applications, clean and effective websites, e-mail newsletters, logos and corporate branding, and print communications.Mike Rohde is also a passionate mobile device user who founded The Palm Tipsheet, a free e-zine of practical tips for Palm handheld users that grew to a distribution of over 10,000 subscribers. Mike is also an avid blogger, and continues to share his views on many topics through that venue.
Matt Dopkiss / Dynamit Technologies Matt brings a background in the disciplined study of physics to his management and direction of "design engineering" online projects performed in partnership with Compeau-Fawkes. With his team of top-notch designers, client-focused approach to work, and unyielding drive for design that creates results, the Dynamit team continues to deliver superior work alongside the Compeau-Fawkes marketing and copywriting leaders.
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