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Curt ensures that Ascentium provides the best business solutions and highest satisfaction to clients. Before cofounding Ascentium, Curt was chief technology officer for ContractorHub.com. Curt served as chief technology officer at Data Dimensions, founded Redmond Technology Partners, a regional systems integrator. Along with Jim Beebe, Curt championed the development of the application consulting organization at Excell Data. Curt is a member of the Mises Institute, a think tank for market-driven policy, researching and writing about the evolutionary nature of knowledge and certainty in business, society, and government. Curt received an M.S. in computer science from Central Connecticut State University and a B.F.A. from the University of Hartford.

Susan MacDermid oversees Real Branding’s strategy and business development practices, leveraging insight into customer behavior to develop digital strategies that achieve marketing objectives. Susan’s clients have included 25 of the world’s top 100 brands: ABC, Adidas, Anheuser-Busch, AOL, AT&T, BMG, Cartier, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Delta, Diageo, Disney, EMI, ESPN, Fujitsu, GE, GM, Hitachi, HBO, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Lipton, Matsushita, Panasonic, Sony, Sprite, Toshiba, Transamerica, Warner Bros., UBS, and Unilever.

Prior to joining Real Branding, Susan held various management roles: Founder and President of a $10 million overseas office for Modem Media (acquired by Digitas, since acquired by Publicis), and Managing Director of InfoPlus, a privately held integrated marketing agency. She has a dozen international awards for marketing achievement and is a frequent industry presenter.

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president of Jumpstart Automotive, EVP/ Carat and professor of advertising, university of san francisco

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