Steve McGill leads Kilowatt Marketing’s Sales Training & Sponsorship Sales teams. Steve has expertise in sponsorship creation for conferences and online properties, direct sales, and customer satisfaction. He has led sales efforts for major brands such as CeBIT, Hadoop Summit, Game Developers Conference, Interop, and Macworld.

Caryl Lyons has more than 15 years experience in the event industry. For Caryl, effective events management means proper planning, dedication to the process and accountability. Caryl has successfully designed and managed worldwide events for major enterprise companies and has planned everything from multiple city road shows, product launches, and incentive trips to sales meetings and user conferences.

Caryl’s expertise includes site selection, contract negotiation, hotel & room management, theme development, project management, web registration, video production and on-site management.

Vanessa Bauch is an award winning freelance copywriter with over 10 years’ experience creating advertising and marketing concepts for companies large and small. Vanessa has created print and online campaigns for Fortune 500 companies, launched start-ups with inventive direct marketing programs and developed unconventional PR projects including the World’s Largest Snow Globe in Times Square.

Vanessa’s expertise spans the gamut— from corporate naming to crafting websites, collateral, packaging, ad campaigns, PR solutions and direct response programs.

Julie McGill has more than 18 years of marketing experience and has held senior marketing roles at both large corporations and technology start-ups. With a background in technology and publishing, Julie has created highly successful lead generation programs for enterprise companies, managed the re-launch of a software brand, and developed revenue-driving marketing programs for an Internet start-up.

Julie’s expertise includes product launches, web marketing, promotions, partner marketing and sales support.