Christopher Ryan is founder and president of Fusion Marketing Partners, a B2B marketing and sales strategy consulting firm. Chris works with a team of highly experienced strategic consultants to help companies improve their marketing and sales operations. Chris has 25 years of marketing, technology, and senior management experience, and is a well-known expert in business-to-business marketing, sales strategy, business development, and operations. As both an in-house executive and services provider, Chris has played a significant role in creating and implementing marketing and sales programs that achieve the desired results and deliver synergy and alignment between the sales and marketing functions.
Prior to Fusion Marketing Partners, Chris was Vice President of Marketing of SpringCM, the world’s largest provider of SaaS-based document management systems. Chris has also served as Vice President of Marketing at Stellent, Inc., a $125 million supplier of enterprise content management (ECM) software and services (now part of Oracle), and Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing of FrontRange Solutions, Inc., a $100 million supplier of customer relationship management (CRM) software. Chris was also Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of Saligent Software, a marketing and sales automation software and services company. Chris has also served in senior management positions at technology firms Sybase, PeopleSoft, and Group 1 Software.
Chris Ryan is known in the marketing and technology industries as an outstanding communicator. He has delivered keynote addresses and sessions at many conferences on B2B marketing and technology. Target Marketing magazine named Chris as one of the Top 100 U.S. Marketers for three years. Chris’ latest book is How to Create an Unstoppable Marketing and Sales Machine, and he has written three other books on marketing and information , and he has written three other books on marketing and information technology. Chris has been an instructor and lecturer at the University of Colorado, College of Notre Dame and Montgomery College.
Myron Berg is a partner and Managing Director, Web & Online Strategies for Fusion Marketing Partners. Contemporary sales and marketing often depends on the effective and efficient application of technology to meet business requirements. As a seasoned entrepreneur and technologist, Myron understands how business needs must drive the application of technology. And the technology must be rapidly deloyed at low cost and with the flexibility to adapt. Myron has often been on the front lines in driving and deploying the needed technology infrastructure to meet business goals.
Myron Berg has designed and implemented many technology advancements during his twenty year career. Myron was a key engineering architect at TellSoft Technologies, a co-founder of Black White Box, and a co-founder of Bit Weld. He is the author of ten pending and issued patents. Before deploying his skills in start-up organizations Myron developed his expertise in security platforms and applications with MCI and GTE where he defined, architected and fielded large-scale security intensive software development projects. Myron holds a M.S. in Software Systems Engineering and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
