A Chicago native, Kathy is a midwestern girl at heart with a wanderlust for global travel. She successfully escaped from Old Man Winter in late 2020 and now lives near the beaches of Southern Calif...view moreA Chicago native, Kathy is a midwestern girl at heart with a wanderlust for global travel. She successfully escaped from Old Man Winter in late 2020 and now lives near the beaches of Southern California. She is a strategic thinker, entrepreneurial leader, athlete, and author with over 25 years of IT sales and marketing leadership expertise. She worked for tech startups and Fortune 500 enterprise software companies in the public and private sectors including Sun Microsystems, Verisign, Citrix, Microsoft, and SAP. Today, she provides strategic consulting services, mentors for commercial and university accelerator programs, and teaches marketing communications fundamentals and storytelling workshops to help companies increase sales and online engagement. Kathy holds a BS in Public Relations from Illinois State University, an MS in Management from Southern Nazarene University, and a Digital Marketing Professional certification from the Digital Marketing Institute in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, visit www.marchitecturemarketing.com.view less