REPORT CARD - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Digital Marketing & E - Commerce Lead Generation

Alex specializes in data-driven, performance-focused online campaigns that drive sales and high-quality leads. Her background includes working as the Ecommerce Director at Ethika, and as the Marketing Director of a lead generation agency where she managed multi-million dollar advertising budgets. Alex has managed campaigns for a wide range of companies from solar energy to ecommerce apparel to financial services. She has extensive experience with Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, and Yahoo Ads, in addition to a variety of email marketing platforms. She excels at finding the intersection between creativity and analytics to create fresh, yet high-performing online marketing strategies. Alex graduated first in her class at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University with a BS in Business Administration, emphasis in Marketing.

Carla is a thought-leader and pioneer in the Corporate Domain Management field, with an emphasis in privacy and security. She has an in-depth knowledge of the day-to-day business dynamics of protecting and optimizing domain portfolios and ancillary IP. With an expertise in managing large corporate domain portfolios honed over nearly two decades, Carla has a keen eye for identifying problem areas, then proposing and implementing impactful, efficient, and innovative solutions.

With over 16 years of experience, Jason has designed everything from annual reports to posters, packaging to brochures, logos to corporate collateral, trade show booths to commercials...and the list goes on and on. As does his list of honors and awards. It's kind of embarrassing.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Founder
• Buckley Media 's Founder

Kate has over 25 years of experience in marketing and business development, with deep experience in premium domains (sales and acquisitions), branding, naming, strategy, and storytelling. Her background includes big agencies (Gray and Landor) as well as monetizing and developing ultra-premium domains (CCIN/The Castello Brothers). She is an expert at premium domain consulting and representation, specializing in buying and selling ultra-premium .COMs. Kate has personally brokered well over eight figures in both private and publicly-recorded top domains sales. She brokered a Top 10 domain sale in 2016, three of the world's Top 30 domain sales in 2017, as well as three of the world's Top 25 domain sales in 2018. In 2019, she brokered the 7-figure sale of Chocolate.com, and landed two of the world's Top 15 domain sales​ in 2020. In 2021, she sold eBike.com for 7 figures and continues to make chart-topping sales, both publicly and privately. Kate excels at analyzing an organization's critical requirements, understanding both who a brand is now, and who they want to be when they grow up-devising the resources, stories and strategies to bridge that gap. She's a strong communicator who can identify deficiencies and opportunities, and develop innovative, creative and effective solutions for engaging consumers and enhancing competitiveness. Kate graduated with honors from the University of Kentucky with a BA in Advertising/PR/Communications. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Spalding University), and is a Certified Professional Coach and Corporate Trainer (LCIOC), Public Speaker (AMA), and accomplished artist, award-winning poet and author, contributor and keynote speaker. Kate is a regular speaker and panelist on the domain industry and branding, including keynoting NamesCon Global; has been published by The Business Journals, Forbes, and other key publications, and has been interviewed or profiled by DNJournal, Domain Name Wire, Domain Sherpa Review, Domainer Show, Hooked on Startups, Internet Commerce Association (ICA), Kickstart Commerce, TheDomainShow.com, and more. Kate is also a member of the Forbes Business Council and was most recently named to the Forbes Next 1000. A proud member of the ICA, Buckley Media is also a member of ICANN Business Constituency where Kate serves on the Credentials Committee. Kate@BuckleyMedia.com Buckley Media specializes in domain name brokerage and acquisition, naming and branding. Our experienced team, known for its exemplary customer service and strong, authentic relationships in the domain industry, startup industry, and established corporate universe, provides targeted, strategic outreach and stellar service to our valued clientele. Specializing in maximizing value in both buying and selling ultra-premium domain names, the Buckley Media team epitomizes professionalism, expert guidance, a throughly customized approach, and trust. ​Buckley Media's founder, Kate Buckley, has over 25 years of experience in marketing and business development, with deep experience in Premium Domain Sales, Acquisitions & Consulting, Naming and Branding. An intuitive and creative thinker, she strategizes with individuals and brands, then translates those roadmaps into deliverables: naming, domains, creative strategies-reimagining their past, orienting their present, and co-creating their future. Kate is a regular speaker and panelist on the domain industry, storytelling and branding, including keynoting NamesCon Global (she's also a member of the NamesCon Advisory Board); has been published by Forbes, The Business Journals and other key publications, and has been interviewed or profiled by Accelerate OC, DNJournal, Domain Name Wire, Domain Sherpa Review, TheDomainShow.com, Hooked on Startups, and the Internet Commerce Association. She is also a member of the Forbes Business Council and was most recently named to the Forbes Next 1000.

Job Titles:

• Branding Executive
• CEO of INK
• Senior Broker & Brand Analyst

Todd is a branding executive with over 30 years of hands-on leadership experience. Having experienced mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, start-ups, wild successes, and epic failures, he is passionate about telling the best story possible about the brands he serves. A former animator at DreamWorks SKG, Todd started his agency journey as Chief Creative Officer at Viant. He then went on to found INK, specializing in building multi-million and billion-dollar brands-from naming to domains to strategy to branding to execution. Todd has worked with companies such as: Dell, Cisco, Edwards Lifesciences, Vizio, Baja Fresh, Cantor Fitzgerald, PacLife, etc. and has deep experience across many categories including: FinTech, Healthcare and Technology.