Mario Schulzke
Mario was born in Germany, raised with the help of his Prussian great-grandmother, educated by nuns and is constant attempt to live an interesting life. He has lived in Germany, France, England, Spain, Montana, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland and now once again Los Angeles.
Mario is a principal at Quillion, a digital performance marketing agency, is the founder of Idea Mensch and sits on the board of advisors at the University of Montana business school. He also is the publisher of a book on how to write complaint letters which has been featured on the Consumerist and on 20/20.
Jessica Tade
Jessica is approaching her senior year at The University of Montana and plans on graduating in December 2010 with a B.S. International Business & Marketing, and a Minor in Media Arts. She fell into marketing during her sophomore year when she needed to declare a major. Because of her strong musical background, playing instruments since the age of 4, she found she could relate her musical ear towards marketing. Since then she has pursued unique opportunities that have given her a better idea of where she wants to be in a few years. Jessica is also half Nicaraguan which has given her a strong interest in different cultures and traveling abroad as well. She plans on studying abroad to either Spain or Nicaragua to improve her Spanish and enjoy the cuisine!
Jesse Lakes
Jesse is hard to track down at any given moment but he regularly calls Montana, Colorado or Costa Rica home... An expert at playing outdoors, Jesse is perfecting the work / recreation equilibrium.
Jesse is a project guy and nothing excites him more then diving into a new idea for an online start up. With over 12 attempts to date he is pleased to report that he is getting pretty good at what he does. And what does he do? He does a little bit of everything that is necessary to take an idea and turn it into a product or service.
Outside, Jesse spends time as a whitewater-rafting guide, is an expert whitewater kayaker and snowboarder and an avid mountain biker, skateboarder and surfer.
Ben Herman
Ben lives in Portland, Oregon and is a fan of both the Portland Trail Blazers and the University of Oregon Ducks. When he gets the chance, he enjoys getting out and playing a few games of basketball, though he doesn’t get to as often as he would like. Because at the core, Ben is a technology guy.
In 2005, he founded Mad Fish SEO, a Portland interactive agency as a way to try to bridge the gap between the web development tech speak and useful online marketing. His six years in the SEO business and five years of managerial and operations experience helps him understand both the strengths of search engine marketing and how it can best translate to something meaningful for a small or large company.
Ben is a member of SEMPDX.