Our Team

Ira KaufmanIra Kaufman  President, Marketing Strategist

Ira challenges owners and senior executives to clarify their goals and translate them into a consistent Brand and Integrated Media Marketing Strategy. He combines 30 years of rich experiences with businesses and nonprofits and guides them to leverage the power of social media for marketing, recruitment and organizational development. Ira collaborates with a team of experts to design interactive environments that create long term business value by integrating traditional advertising, online marketing, public relations and social media. His strong values and sensitivity to organization innovation and change are the foundation of his work.

As a Ph.D. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, Ira was a founding member of the team that developed “Social Marketing” – applying marketing to organizations and associations where success was defined in other monetary terms. In addition he developed a strong skill set in cross cultural relations, building strategic partnerships between government agencies, non-profits, and foundation in the USA and globally. Ira serves as a consultant, trainer, public speaker, and lecturer for companies and Senior Executive programs.  Connect with Ira

Patsy StewartPatsy Stewart   Director,  Digital Marketing and Training

Patsy is responsible for designing and implementing social media strategies as part of an Integrated Media Marketing plan. She specializes in working with clients to generate conversations that create relationships. Patsy is well known throughout Virginia as a speaker, trainer and thought leader in Social Media.

She manages a recruitment team that was recognized as one of the top 50 recruiters nationally using Twitter/social media. Patsy is ranked by Grader as one of the Elite Twitter Users in SW Virginia. She is a contributor to local business publications and she authored the ebook, “How to Grow Your Digital Footprint“.  Connect with Patsy

Robert Harper   Senior Business Strategist

Robert is a management consultant with more than 30 years industry experience. He is a high-powered sales trainer and effective marketing/advertising  strategist, demonstrating to auto dealers how to effectively and efficiently integrate digital media into their current marketing strategies.

Prior to joining the Entwine team, Robert was President of Miracle Ford, Senior Vice President of the Berglund Automotive Group, and  Co-owner of Dave Sarmadi Mitsubishi.  He operated his own consulting business and has worked with auto advertising budgets from $200,000 to $3.5 million/ year.  Connect with Robert

Brian Duvall   Social Video Manager

Brian specializes in combining powerful social media tools with web video to drive targeted, high-converting traffic to client’s websites. He has been an award winning video producer and director since1986; his clients include CBS, Ingersol-Rand
ABB, Gardner Denver and Shaw Industries.  As the CEO of an international extreme sports company, he built a global readership for Inline Boarder.  This popular web magazine became the lead source of information for the Inline Boarding industry. He has broad background in managing and supporting associations.  Brian was honored as one of the Southwest Virginia’s Top 20 Under 40 by the Blue Ridge Business Journal (Apr. 2002) when he served as the Executive Director for two area Chambers of Commerce. Now he shares his experience of internet marketing, social media, and web video production & syndication through interactive workshops and social video solutions for leading Virginia businesses and non profits.

Janeson KeeleyJaneson Keeley   Search Engine Strategist

Janeson specializes in developing search engine optimization strategies that integrate with social media.  She provides end to end search engine implementation, content development, submission and monitoring.

Janeson is founder of TweetVA, Virginia’s Twitter Directory.  A regular columnist in Valley Business FRONT magazine, she writes on topics related to business, the Internet, and social media.  Connect with Janeson

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Eddie O’Leary   Online  Developer

Eddie guides the development of interactive online environments including content managed sites, eCommerce and database applications. His collaborative team specializes in customized WordPress sites that integrate social media and video. They enjoy developing user friendly sites that communicate the client’s Brand message .Their focus is customer service and client satisfaction.  Connect with Eddie