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ABOUT
Combining the best of east coast smarts with west coast creativity, Qmarq is a growth consultancy.
Medium-agnostic, we deploy the most efficient solution to address each opportunity or challenge because each client has unique needs.
One of our principals will lead your account and is responsible for marshaling other senior talent as required.
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Need to re-frame your narrative to enter a new market? We'll assign a two-time author to write the story for you.
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Need to re-configure your qualified lead to sales process? Our resident marketing ops leader who lives to optimize sales funnels will dive in.
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Need a brand or product animation? Meet our creative minds who worked with Stan Lee - he of Marvel Comics acclaim.
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Need to produce one or a series of videos that explain your value props? Say hello to an award-winning documentary producer.
If you're like most clients, you probably don't know for certain what you need. You just see marketing stalled and sales floundering. That's where we add value. We'll triage the shortcomings, muscle through the options based on budgets, and fire up the execution engine.
Our mission is crisp: we will do whatever it takes to help our clients grow profitably.
We start and end our days ideating on how we can help our clients win. Win business. Win repeat business. Win share. Win partners. Win talent. Win. Win. Win.
We do so with a fearless attitude forged by years of truth-telling.
MISSION
THINK > CREATE > EXECUTE.
Every firm has “an approach.” Us too.
Logic, data, reason drive our thinking, backed by creative ideas and meaningful results. We abhor arbitrary strategies, haphazard concepts, and messy executions.
When you win, we win.
We work the way you choose. Whatever suits you best. In all cases, we outline specific deliverables and timelines so you're fully aware of what to expect and when.
No surprises.
ANDREW DOD
Managing Partner
Award-winning marketer, agency executive, critically-acclaimed author and columnist, Andrew Dod has helped launch more than four dozen technology companies and hundreds of products and services over the past 30 years. Companies of all sizes rely on Andrew to help guide their strategies, shape their narratives, re-position their brands and steal share from better-known competitors. A crisp thinker who weaves compelling stories, Andrew is highly respected for his leadership, passion, intellect, foresight, and humor.
Most recently CMO of SharpSpring (NASDAQ: SHSP), Andrew led a team of three dozen marketing professionals to dramatically increase leads and conversions within six months, achieving the highest sales ever. Prior to SharpSpring, he was CMO of Palladium, a 2,500 person international management consultancy where he helped combine five different entities into a single, unified brand.
As Managing Partner of TechCXO’s Marketing Practice, he provided expert counsel to a wide range of venture and PE-backed clients. He was a co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Whoop, a mobile applications and technology company in the pre-smartphone era. As co-founder of 34 North, an innovation and marketing consultancy, Andrew led engagements for an array of Fortune 500 clients. An astute storyteller for global PR firm, Ketchum, and his own 30-person boutique agency, Dod/Pritchard Communications, Andrew has represented dozens of emerging companies. As Director of Corporate Communications for Hayes, the data communications pioneer, Andrew led the company’s public relations initiatives globally.
Andrew is the co-author of Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography (Columbia University Press, 1997). He was the ghost author of Driving Business Performance Through Strategic Sourcing, (Vanity Press, 2005), and has authored several hundred articles and thought leadership pieces for various clients and executives.
He is a magna cum laude graduate in Politics from Princeton University and the recipient of the Annenberg Fellowship at Eton College in England where he taught American Politics and Economics.
DEMETRIO CUZZOCREA
Managing Partner
Demetrio has nearly two decades of experience in the interactive and entertainment industries and possesses rare equilibrium in left and right-brained thinking.
As CEO of EmergentApps, Demetrio was co-founder of a multitude of start-ups, from social networks, to human resources and pharma solutions to movie trivia games like Fireback Movies. Over the last several years, he led the development effort for both the animation and game development of Stan Lee's Superhero Ball Wars, launched at the last Comikaze conference at the end of October, 2016. Celebrity clients have included Jo Frost (the ex "Super Nanny") and the star of the reality show "Dance Moms", Abby Lee Miller.
Previous clients include AOL, RIM, Georgia Tech, the American Red Cross, National Lampoon, Disney South America, Hughes Telematics, the Argentinian Football Association (AFA), Reed Exhibitions, Buffalo Wild Wings, National Lampoon, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks Music, & Reuters America.
Demetrio was also a co-founder of the mobile platform, Whoop, Inc. He is the managing partner of 90|10 Advisors, LLC, which advises and distributes sustainable and green technologies and products, and is a partner in a digital solutions initiative called Hourglass Interactive, which specializes in AR and VR development.
Demetrio received his B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. from the University of San Diego on fellowship from the Old Globe Theater.
Demetrio frequently speaks in major forums, serves on the Board of Advisers of the B-corporation Peerspring, which enables students to engage with technology and create and distribute social action campaigns. He is also an adjunct adviser to the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of International Public Policy & Management and a member of the UX and Engagement Advisory Council for the Encyclopedia of Life, whose mission is to provide global access to knowledge about life on Earth and is a joint initiative of Harvard University and the Smithsonian.
PABLO BOYANOVSKY BAZAN
Creative Director
Pablo is an award-winning designer and Creative Director based in Buenos Aires with over 25 years of deep experience in brand identity, UI/UX design, graphic design, animation with a special focus on edutainment and gaming for kids.
Highlights include virtual reality projects for SEGEMAR, the geological and mining survey division of the Argentine government, and designing the UI for a Stan Lee project while overseeing the creation of over 25 characters for the project. Pablo's work has spanned efforts for the notable advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, where he oversaw cultural design changes to the well-known Kellogg's characters for the LATAM market, to online soccer games for Budweiser, to an original property for kids called b.bot, the best parenting app of 2019.
Pablo runs multimedia projects from creation to application, directing the planning process, participating in the production process, and leading work teams.
HIs bachelor's degree in fine arts and a unique eye and style honed over the past two decades have allowed him to also work on character creation and management for the top media networks and many global brands.