Executive Director
Sarah Dudley
Sarah has content marketing in her DNA. An avid storyteller and creative, she spent 6 years focused on helping to grow and define the content marketing discipline at IBM. Recognizing that content doesn’t stop at content creation, she is now a senior product marketing manager who spends most of her days thinking about how to put the customer at the forefront of every experience.
Her tendencies to strive for greatness began in 5th grade selling posters of the Backstreet Boys on the school playground for 50 cents each. It only makes sense that she also has a blog and co-hosts the Entry Level Podcast, where she talks about navigating the first 10 years of your career and developing an “entry level” mindset of always learning and growing. She was named a Top 15 Millennial Marketer to Follow by LinkedIn and has an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.
Volunteer Leadership Committee
Allison Grinberg-Funes
SOCIAL AND GROWTH
Allison is a connection catalyst that views marketing as a true extension of the customer voice. By day, she's a Marketing Manager for Raizlabs, a Rightpoint company that builds emerging tech products that improve lives. She's also a freelance digital strategist and copywriter and enjoys helping healthcare, nonprofit, and social impact businesses connect with their audiences through content.
When she's not building content and social media campaigns, doing user research, or optimizing for SEO, Allison enjoys the non-digital world. You can find her perusing Boston's independent bookstores, enjoying the outdoors, or on her yoga mat. She also dabbles with her own creative writing and can sometimes be seen telling her stories at events around Boston.
Chuck Leddy
Brand storyteller
Boston-based Chuck Leddy connects brands with customers through engaging stories that help customers solve problems and be happier. A former print journalist, Chuck has crafted stories for organizations in higher education (MIT, Harvard, BU), business (GE, ADP), and technology. His stories offers intelligent solutions to customers and brands. To find more about Chuck, visit his website here.
Karra Barron
community manager
Karra Barron has been a writer since she was three and has since ditched the crayons to lead content marketing for high growth companies. She's the Sr. Content Marketing Manager for Visier, an analytics software company helping businesses see the truth in their data.
Karra grew up in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. and recently moved to Boston, where she's excited to get better acquainted with New England clam chowder, lobster rolls, and craft cider. When not tasting her way through a city, she loves trying out new-to-her fitness studios, reading, and writing on novels for young adults.
Amrutha Ananth
Social Media
Amrutha has been working in the Marketing Communications field for over 6 years and is currently pursuing her MBA at Babson College. Her previous stints at FinTech giants like PayPal Inc. and Polaris Group taught her that consistency and creativity co-exist. She has also worked as a freelance journalist for various leading publications in India, and enjoys writing about Culture, Lifestyle, and Food.
With a strong passion for Indian Classical performing arts, she has undergone intense training in South Indian Classical Music & Dance, having performed in various venues in India and the US. A shutterbug, she still holds her decade-old DSLR camera dear. During her free time, she experiments with new recipes, writes blogs, adds ‘new places to visit’ to her bucket list, and catches up with movies/tv-shows.
Executive Directors Emeritus
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Katie Martell
Katie Martell is an on-demand marketing strategist based in Boston, MA.
She has been named one of the most interesting people in B2B marketing, a "marketing expert to follow" by CIO Magazine and a top marketing writer on LinkedIn 3X.
With experience as a millennial CMO and entrepreneur, the world’s first “Director of Buzz” and her distinct opinion about the world of marketing, Katie is a frequent speaker and emcee at conferences including TEDx, INBOUND, and MarketingProfs. She also serves as the Co-Executive Director of Boston Content, the city's largest nonprofit community of content professionals.
Follow her on Twitter @KatieMartell and subscribe to The Worlds Best Newsletter at Katie-Martell.com
Katelyn Holbrook
Katelyn Holbrook is Vice President at Version 2.0 Communications, a PR and digital communications firm for disruptive brands. Katelyn sets the strategic direction for high-impact integrated communications programs, as both an account team leader and head of the agency’s burgeoning content practice.
She has developed award-winning public relations and content campaigns for clients including SimpliVity, Panjiva and the University of Michigan. You may have seen her clients on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, as guests on CNBC’s Mad Money, as bylined authors in Harvard Business Review, or leading discussions at SXSW.
Katelyn is a self-described grammar nerd, passionate defender of the Oxford comma, and news junkie
Devin Bramhall
@DEVINEMILY
Devin is the Director of Content at Help Scout, an online help desk software. She is also a writer, storyteller and founder of The Master Slam, a story-slam style debate that turns a traditional panel discussion into an evening of live performance and competition. For the past 5 years, Devin has been telling stories live on stage as well as training speakers for TEDx talks, teaching storytelling and personal branding at the Startup Institute and General Assembly.
Mike Baker
@MarketingBaker
Mike is the Senior Manager of Global Content Strategy at Crimson Hexagon, a social analytics company based in Boston. Before entering the content marketing industry, Mike worked as a reporter, editor, farmer and pre-school teacher. Mike is also currently working on a book (in fits and starts) about the story of how and why his grandfather invented the chicken nugget.
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Founders Emeritus
Jay Acunzo
@JAYACUNZO
Jay Acunzo is an award-winning podcaster and dynamic keynote speaker. Before creating the popular show Unthinkable, Jay was a social media strategist at Google and head of content at HubSpot. He's built content marketing strategies from scratch for exciting new startups and produced attention-grabbing documentaries for brands. His work has been cited in places ranging from Harvard Business School to the Washington Post. Today, Jay hosts shows and works with teams that break conventional thinking and become the welcome exception to all the average noise in their niche.
Arestia Rosenberg
@ArestiaR
Storyteller, video lover, and adventurer, Arestia Rosenberg started Boston Content when she was the Senior Content Producer at Hill Holliday. She brought that advertising agency experience, along with her background in major motion pictures and television development and production, to The Daily Beast as their Creative Director of Brand Strategy. Now, Arestia is participating in Remote Year and is available for remote content strategy, writing, producing, and creative direction work!