“Katharine is a quite simply
a marketing powerhouse. She is a versatile team player who excels at
whatever she does; whether it be marketing, marketing communications,
advertising, branding, event planning, or public relations. Have a
troubled project that is sinking fast? Throw her in the deep... she’ll
right the sinking ship and get it back on course. Need to give that
tired campaign a fresh look? She’ll bring the creative touch
your looking for. Looking to get the right exposure, in front of the
right people? Katharine can make it happen. She’s a smart, hard
worker who I found to be a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend
adding Katharine to your team.”
Scott Gordon, Founder, EPIC Innovations, Inc.
“Katharine worked for me for
many years, and has my highest recommendation. Her corporate communications
and branding work is of the highest caliber. She was the creative talent
for our corporate ID, including web site, literature, logos, ads,
user’s
manuals, conferences, and all the things in between. She’s also
a dedicated and hard-working person, and I hope to continue to contract
with her in the future. She had worked for me for many years before
at Altsys Corporation, where she also established our graphical identity,
and she later ran creative services [as Creative Director] at Macromedia,
after Macromedia bought Altsys. Experience, talent, and a nice person,
too.”
Jim Von Ehr, Founder, Chairman, Zyvex Group companies
“Katharine Green is a superb
practitioner of the art of corporate communications. Her skills are
impressive. Her commitment to her job is total. Her keen understanding
of human interactions in person and through different media sets her
apart from every other communications person that I have ever worked
with in companies big and small. I have personally benefited from my
association with her over the past 7 years at Zyvex and have thoroughly
enjoyed having worked with her. I can give her no less than my highest
recommendation.”
John N. Randall, Chief Technical Officer, Zyvex
Corporation
“Katharine Green is one of the
most talented professionals in the areas of communications and public
relations utilizing her expert skills in web, print, and media to ensure
products get to market and embraced. She is an absolute pleasure to
work with and has a high level of creativity, integrity, and ability
to work with entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists.”
Sha-Chelle
Devlin Manning, Managing Director, NanoHoldings
“Of all the high tech start-ups,
growth companies, and even large public corporations I have worked in,
it’s rare to find one individual who is as talented as Katharine.
The ability to take esoteric, confusing, and vague engineering concepts,
and translate them into concise verbal and visual images is rare. Plus,
organize them on web sites, etc. and create effective PR and marketing
messages. Plus, Katharine’s ability to work with a variety of
scientific and business personalities, and her flexibility and work
ethic, were of great value. Highly efficient and effective.”
Richard Weitzel, Director Sales and Marketing,
Zyvex Corporation
“Katharine was a fantastic Creative
Director at Macromedia. She managed to balance the overwhelming project
cue without cutting corners design-wise. She protected the style guide
and demanded attention to detail from her team, but managed to protect
her team and maintain high morale. Her working relationship with the
upper level management was always productive and even keeled. She knew
when to buckle down and make the deadlines at any cost when it was necessary...
and how to politely push back when it wasn’t. I consider Katharine
to be a personal mentor and my time working with her at Macromedia was
an instrumental step towards becoming a designer.”
Hillman Curtis, Owner, hillmancurtis, inc.
“What strikes me most about Katharine’s
accomplishments is her willingness to do whatever it takes to get the
job done well. She managed an overseas design team on the New Macromedia
Corporate ID, commuted between Texas and California, became the new
director of the group, and had to quickly assess talent and make some
decisions on who was to stay and who was to go. Through all this change,
Katharine kept the company’s needs first and dealt fairly with
people. Katharine prepares well thought out plans and works closely
with her team to produce excellent work. You can count on her to deliver
on time and on budget. She is also not afraid to make tough decisions
or inform you of news that isn’t pleasant (but is correct). Her
positive attitude, consistency and results-orientation show in everything
Katharine does. I would highly recommend her to anyone.
Bud Colligan, CEO, Macromedia
(Now with Accel Partners)
“Katharine has a unique ability
to interface with designers and copywriters as well as business folks.
She is able to get great creative teams to be more productive on challenging
projects while making sure that the basic requirements for the business
get met. Having worked on creative professional software for most of
her career she knows how to work with designers! Katharine has a good
eye and a good ear for language — always a critical ability for
creative directors.”
Tom Hale, VP, Product Management and Product Marketing,
Macromedia
(Now Chief Product Officer at Linden Lab)
“I first met Katharine while
serving as the CEO and co-Founder of the North Texas Technology Council
(NTTC). Katharine joined our Board and created NTTC’s entire branding
campaign that was an incredible success. In turn, I joined Katharine
on the Board of the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative. Her dedication,
drive and leadership was instrumental in bringing both national and
international awareness and of both North Texas and Zyvex as the leader
in an important and newly emerging technology. Any company fortunate
to have Katharine on their team will find the drive, talent, creativity
and leadership for propelling their message and business forward.”
Cynthia de Lorenzi, Chief Executive Officer and
Founder, The North Texas Technology Council
“I knew Katharine when we both
worked at Zyvex. She was Director of Corporate Communications. She’s
absolutely fantastic! Whether it’s setting up a web site for maximum
impact, screening reporters, advising on how to handle an interview,
doing PR photos, or making a conference work she can do it all. If it
involves getting a message across, she knows how to do it.”
Ralph Merkle, Nanotechnology Theorist , Zyvex Corporation
“Katharine is dedicated professional
who is very talented in the field of marketing and communications. Katharine’s
creativity and attention to detail has been exceptional throughout our
working relationship. I highly recommend Katharine for any position
where creativity, detail, and professionalism are essential to success.”
Lance Criscuolo, General Manager, Zyvex Performance
Materials