CENTRIFUGE BRAND MARKETING - Key Persons
Agata draws on more than two decades of graphic design experience to deliver compelling, creative work for our manufacturing clients' marketing programs.
As a senior graphic designer and art director, Agata thrives on a good challenge. She is constantly seeking to learn about our clients, their businesses, and what they offer. Her inquisitive mind leads her to the essence of a project and the most eye-catching visual solutions.
Angela believes good design isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. She helps develop and elevate our clients' brands with creative work that is smart and effective.
With a passion for art, design, and writing, Angela is instrumental in building brand strategies and developing innovative, thoughtful, and consistent communication programs. She is skilled at designing print, digital, and social campaigns across multiple channels. Her talents in logo design, concept development, page layout, animation design, photo direction, and post-production are vital to the success of our clients. Angela's commitment to ideation and design help drive results and grow businesses.
"Seeing our clients grow is the real reward for our work. I love the creativity and dedication of the Centrifuge team-and the part we play in the resurgence of American manufacturing."
Angela brings decades of design and advertising expertise to our manufacturing clients. Her experience in manufacturing technologies extends beyond the workplace, having a father with a career in manufacturing and a husband who is an architect and engineer.
With skills in design and marketing, Angela held leadership positions at firms in Des Moines and Chicago. She has experience working for clients across an array of industries, from publishing, energy, and technology companies to manufacturing, consulting, architecture, and engineering firms. She has served the needs of industry leaders such as Accenture, Meredith Publishing, ComEd, Gensler, and Fermilab.
Job Titles:
- Director of Brand Development
Brian generates brand marketing strategies and programs that enable our industrial manufacturing clients to achieve brand growth.
Brian has an extensive creative and marketing background spanning over 30 years. He has a proven record of driving engaging B2B initiatives across various industries, including information technology, financial, licensing, business consulting, automotive, and entertainment.
Job Titles:
- Video Editor Motion Graphics Designer
Iwona combines her comprehensive knowledge of design with programming to create engaging online experiences for our manufacturing clients.
Possessing a keen eye for typography, color, and layout hierarchy, Iwona has been creating clean and intuitive user interfaces and user experiences since 1998. She has decades of experience in B2B marketing, serving clients in manufacturing, electronics, construction, distribution, and warehousing.
"I'm passionate about designing clean, intuitive, user-friendly experiences that increase engagement and build strong brands."
At Centrifuge, Iwona helps ensure the effectiveness and successful execution of our clients' digital marketing campaigns. She is responsible for overall UI/UX design and implementation; designing, programming, and maintaining websites and digital marketing assets; ensuring the accessibility of websites across digital platforms; and testing websites for ease of use, speed, and other quality benchmarks.
Even after more than 20 years developing and designing websites and digital experiences, Iwona still gets a thrill seeing her coding come to life. She embraces the learning and experimentation required in everchanging mediums like web design and coding. She is a critical thinker, problem solver, and bold communicator. She keeps her eye on the details while envisioning the bigger picture.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner ( Retired )
- Principal and Strategic Services
With a passion for industrial brand marketing guided by deep insights, John helped build Centrifuge from the ground up. Our clients, team members, and partners are grateful for John's drive, determination, and dedication to business growth.
Facilitating growth for industrial manufacturers, John's core area of interest is the intersection of brand identity and organizational change. He is especially talented at helping industrial leaders align these functions to create distinguished value in their marketplaces.
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Principal
- Principal Creative Direction
Ken manages the creative output of Centrifuge while ensuring the brand experience is on strategy, fully engaging, and focused on results.
With over 30 years of B2B marketing experience, Ken has worked alongside some of the industry's sharpest leaders on both the client and the agency sides of the business. Firmly grounded in the industrial manufacturing world, these experiences laid the groundwork for his ability to deliver effective marketing communications to business owners and executives, engineers and specifiers, and other key decision-makers.
Kevin Meek provides visual direction for the communications programs, brand identity efforts, and marketing campaigns for our industrial manufacturing clients.
Since 2004, Kevin has been successfully creating ad campaigns for print and digital media; designing logos, brochures, and direct mail; helping companies establish brand identity; and generating graphics for websites, email, social media, and trade shows. His work has supported a wide variety of clients in the B2B, B2C, ecommerce, automotive, and consumer goods industries, including Nike, Walgreens, Sears Holdings Corporation, Chicago Tribune Media Group, Grubhub, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
In his creative and design career, Kevin has been a leader at all levels of marketing, with positions as art director, senior graphic designer, and senior visual designer, among others. His leadership is crucial to our manufacturing clients' continued success.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Digital Media Director
- Principal Digital Media Director
Lisa enhances our clients' online and mobile brand experience. In addition, she is the driving force behind the video production capabilities of Centrifuge.
Brand engagement is driven through rich digital experiences, and video continues to be one of the most powerful tools in web design. An experienced front-end developer overseeing a full-stack development team, Lisa manages web applications from concept and design through development and hosting. She works closely with creatives as well as development teams for planning and execution.
Lisa is an accomplished and award-winning editor. She is the leader on all video projects at Centrifuge, coordinating from production through post-production. Her skills in web design and video editing with attention to detail, style, and storytelling, have been recognized with platinum and gold accolades from the Telly, Marcom, and Hermes award competitions.
Job Titles:
- Marketing Content Strategist
Working with clients to better understand their needs, Steve helps us to create effective content strategies and communications programs. He ensures we have the insights we need to maximize the effectiveness of communications. Steve also analyzes and reports on performance data for our clients' marketing channels, identifying opportunities for enhanced success.
Steve's background includes manager-level roles in marketing departments of multimillion-dollar manufacturers. He is well-versed in the entire spectrum of marketing with specialties in product development, brand awareness, and omni-channel marketing campaigns.