Principals
In addition to our key Partners, the NextGen Braintrust™ team consists of talented and experienced marketing executives across North America who have years of extensive, hands-on leadership in top companies and marketing/advertising agencies. They have worked on highly successful marketing campaigns, brand strategies, new product introductions, and the launch of new business ventures. They possess direct experience across critical marketing, sales, customer care and strategy functions and numerous industries snd are available to work with your business.
Our Principals are executives who are exclusively available as marketing resources only through the NextGen Marketing Group™ and are committed to this path as their career focus. They are passionate about helping clients and work closely with all of our Partners to ensure a supperior experience for our customers.
NextGen Braintrust™ Principals
Jeff is a forward thinking marketing and business strategist with over 15 years of experience leading executive teams in the development and execution of successful marketing strategies, new product development, and market development. His innovative thinking and ability to overcome challenges comes from honing his skills as a leader in three divergent organizational environments: The Military, Academia, and Business.
With 20 years of extensive international and domestic technology and consumer goods marketing experience, Cynthia provides vision and innovation to strategies, tactics, product development and team leadership for each customer, market, and budget situation. Cynthia received her B.A. in Business and History from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA; her M.B.A. with international emphasis from the University of Kansas.
Kelly O’Neill Dwight is a Principal with NexGen Marketing Group. She is a dynamic, innovative results focused professional equipped with over 15 years of proven success delivering realized contributions through astute leadership of strategic initiatives to companies, clients and customers in the areas of business operations, marketing, professional services, project management and product management
Tom Evangelista specializes in restructuring, repositioning, and enhancing company and product/brand portfolios. Both as an operating executive and consultant, he has grown businesses profitably, creating significant stakeholder value and wealth in the process. He is recognized as a strategist and solutions-focused leader, skilled at driving results through pragmatic operational initiatives. He has demonstrated repeated success building brand equity, revenue, market share, profit, and cash flow.
Richard Jones
Principal
Los Angeles, California
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Richard A. Jones is a Principal with Next Gen Marketing Group with more than thirty years experience in the entertainment industry, including cable television, radio, film, theater, publishing, and music. He has held senior management positions with Hawaiian Telcom, Verizon (FiOS TV), GTE (Media Ventures), State of Ohio, Astoria Film Studio, Coax Cable TV, and WCOL AM/FM. Jones is listed in Who’s Who in Entertainment, accredited by the Public Relations Society of America, and a published author. He holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and Bachelor’s degrees in Radio/TV/Film production and Theater from The Ohio State University. Jones has played a major role in launching a new television business for the telecommunications industry in such major markets as Boston, New York, Washington DC, Tampa, Dallas, L.A. and Honolulu.
Ann Wilde is a marketing professional with unique expertise in developing successful marketing strategies and communication plans for entrepreneurial ventures. With 20 years in executive roles in major technology companies in the Midwest and Silicon Valley, Ann brings vision, focus and a results-oriented approach to her clients.
