The highly experienced team at Kirk Communications works with clients at many different stages of their development. Regardless of when Kirk enters into the process, we always want to completely understand the client's corporate strategy.
Kirk will work with the marketing team to ensure that the marketing strategy is inline with the company goals. After the marketing strategy has been approved, we then work to execute the tactical plan on every level. In effect, we become an adjunct member of our client's staff.
This also enables us to take full ownership of the project from start to finish. As the project evolves, we can track its progress and make adjustments to ensure success. We pride ourselves on not only being great strategists, but also being able to tackle any project at any level. It is a unique skill set that few marketing firms can boast.
Management Team
Nate Tennant - Founder
Nate has more than eighteen years of experience in the strategic marketing of technology firms through comprehensive campaigns that thoroughly integrate traditional, electronic, and interactive media systems. He adds broad international business experience, in-depth world media expertise, and a unique knowledge of the globalization of American technology services. Before starting Kirk Communications, Nate served as Director of Marketing for CipherOptics, a network security start-up, and as Marketing Director for World Energy, a leading U.S. alternative energy firm. For the $100 million Internet security firm Ubizen, based in Belgium, Nate managed worldwide product marketing and brand management for one of the company’s signature products, Online Guardian. Ubizen was subsequently successfully sold to BETrusted for over $100 million dollars. He has served in senior marketing, campaign, and event management positions at RSA Security, Lotus and Cabletron Systems. Nate also is an adjunct faculty member in the executive MBA program at the Whittemore School of Businesses where he teaches advanced marketing. Nate is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at the Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Hampshire. He earned his BA degree at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont.
Anoop brings over 15 years of experience in interactive design and marketing. During his decade of professional experience, he has produced websites for start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies utilizing the latest technology. His recent focus is to understand various aspects of social media and turn his client’s online resources into inbound marketing tool. Prior to Kirk, Anoop worked as Director of Interactive Design for Theikos (a SaaS technology consulting company), where he was responsible for managing interactive projects, teams and clients for companies deploying on-demand technologies such as salesforce.com, Eloqua, and Google.
Anoop holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Lucknow University.
Anoop's favorite sport is cricket. He also enjoys photography, river rafting, traveling and sighting tigers on jungle safaris.
Kristan Bishop – Vice President, Market Development
Kristan has 23 of years experience in sales and marketing. She started her career in radio and network television before launching her own successful media buying service. Most recently Kristan served as the Marketing Director for Holloway Motor Cars of Manchester.
Her focus is on getting results for her clients. Kristan decided to work with Kirk Communications because she saw firsthand the scalable ROI made possible by from Kirk's Digital Marketing, as well as the ability for businesses to deliver the right message at the right time to consumers and other businesses with unique ideas, research and reporting.
Kristan has a BA in Communications from the University of New Hampshire. She has volunteered in many capacities including co-producing the Womenade Music Festival benefit concert, coaching youth soccer and T-ball and performing outreach to senior citizens. Kristan is a musician and plays in the band Bliss.
Like the pieces of a pie, marketing is increasingly becoming a complicated game of strategy. Make the right move and you can dominate a market. Make the wrong one, and you can end up behind your competition.