Compeau-Fawkes Technology Marketing

Compeau-Fawkes, Inc. operated from 2003 to 2007 providing technology and services marketing, communications, and business consulting to small to mid-size companies. The firm was experienced within a broad array of industries and business segments including high-tech/software, life sciences, chemical/materials, technology manufacturing, & professional technical services. Compeau-Fawkes consultants worked closely with clients to identify specific marketing and communications needs and opportunities, creating efficiency, customer loyalty, and growth.

Clients were a diverse group: from mid-size firms in Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio, to Silicon Valley software start-ups, from New Zealand biomedical firms to Israeli mobile solutions to UK VoIP providers. Firms struggling to get their technical message understood, heard, and acted upon in the market, found that Compeau-Fawkes could help!

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.

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.

Business Consulting Services

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.

/ TalonPR Site