Steve has over twenty years senior management experience in sales, marketing and general management of marketing agencies, entertainment properties, record labels, record retail and music distribution companies.

Steve joined Drillteam as CEO in 2004 helping to establish many notable brand programs including Toyota Heya, Target College Engagement Marketing, NY Magazine Event Activation, Nestle Advocacy Programs.

Prior to Drillteam, Steve was a senior marketing executive in the music business, helping build the careers of popular music artists for various labels within the Warner Music Group. Steve has a degree in Business and Music from New York University.

     

Jennifer van der Meer is a strategist, teacher, and speaker focused on developing sustainable relationships between people, products and brands.

A former Wall Street Analyst and Economist, Jen has held executive management roles at Organic and Frog Design. She has provided brand strategy, research, product design consulting, and technology marketing strategy to clients such as MTV, Chase, Nextel, Interface Inc., Disney, and GE.

At Drillteam, Jen serves in the role of lead strategist, and has conducted research and brand engagement plans for Toyota, Nestle, Saucony, Neiman Marcus, and Target. In addition to serving on the boards of the Designers Accord and o2NYC, Jennifer writes and speaks on the topic of green marketing and design, and is an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s ITP school.

Jen has a BA in comparative religion from Trinity College, and an MBA from HEC in France.

     

Blogging: American Express Open Forum, Inhabitat

Eric Moll is Vice President of Sales at Drillteam Marketing where he is responsible for leading sales and business development activities for the company.

Eric is a former inner city high school teacher turned corporate sales and marketing executive, responsible for on boarding dozens of the world’s largest consumer brands. He started his corporate sales career at Computer Associates and joined BuzzMetrics (now Nielsen Online) as an early stage member of the team. He was most recently at BzzAgent, a company that runs one of the largest Word of Mouth media networks, where he built and managed many new blue-chip clients in the New York region.

Eric lives in New York City, and is passionate about how social media can change the world for the better.

 

Lisa Lahde has a deep history in interactive marketing, launching some of the Internet's earliest big brands, such as Amazon.com, Starwave, and Preview Travel (now Travelocity). She also conducted marketing efforts for groundbreaking companies such as togglethis, who created some of the earliest, consumer-facing graphic avatars on the Internet.

At Deja News, widely considered the original Web-based community, Lisa worked with the management team to transform the site’s vast content and user base into a shopping platform centered on consumer-generated ratings and reviews. Following that, she created one of the first online boutiques catering to emerging fashion designers, and quickly cultivated a 250,000+ customer base.

For Drillteam, Lisa directs the advocacy efforts for Nestle brand ambassador communities, including program strategy and execution.

   

Blogging: The Jewelry Hunter

After stints at an independent publishing house and a start-up search engine marketing firm, Brooke, an Atlanta native, started a boutique indie music PR and booking agency called The Costume Party.

Following a spontaneous move to NYC in 2005, she acted as an account manager at US Concepts (now known as MKTG), strategizing and executing mobile marketing programs for such brands as T-Mobile, Nintendo, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart.

At Drillteam she has overseen programs for Virgin Mobile, CUSP Neiman Marcus, NY Mag and Saucony Originals, managing everything from sampling parties to SXSW day shows to 3,000+ venue events.

   

Mike DeSutter is a graphic designer and photographer. Mike’s eclectic background includes content management for Insound.com and graphic design for Purdue University’s Housing and Food Services department.

As Drillteam’s design director, Mike handles design, creative direction, and management of freelance designers, illustrators and photographers. His design influence permeates nearly every website, event flyer, glossy fashion ad or screenprint that Drillteam produces.

As an art & design enthusiast and independent publisher, he recently published his first design book, Weird Weight by Andy Dixon. Mike has a BA in Art Studies with a concentration in Photography from Purdue University.

       

As Director of IT at Drillteam, Travis serves as lead information architect and developer on all technical projects, including design and development of the Talkshop community platform.

Travis’s portfolio as an information architect includes microsites, editorial sites, and online communities, featuring re-designs of CooksIllustrated.com and Playboy.com. As a developer, he is proficient in many of today’s most popular web technologies, including PHP, Python, Javascript / Ajax, and Flash.

His previous job at iNDELIBLE Media Corp focused on management of web development, graphic design, and video production, resulting in integrated online experiences for M·A·C Cosmetics, Citigroup, NBC Universal, Sony, and others. He also worked to develop online marketing strategies for Pfizer, Virgin Mobile, and Publisher’s Clearing House. He has a BA in Theoretical Economics from New York University.