ENTREPRENEURSHIP, START UPS AND INNOVATION

HELLO VIKING

In 2007 I co-founded an advertising agency called Hello Viking. Our first client was PWC. The office was entirely virtual. The “always in beta” shop ultimately grew to 16 employees, producing branding, marketing and media strategy, design, interactive user experience and advertising for 35 marketers on 82 projects over 5 years including Thrivent, 3M, Justin Timberlake, the University of Vermont, Tracy Anderson Method, Best Buy and Sears. Hello Viking also served as an entrepreneurial hub—we incubated and launched Curation Station (the proprietary, hosted SaaS software solution used by CNN, Marshalls, 3M, Mattel, Starkey Labs, H&R Block, and Nature Valley) and BannerPalooza, the online banner ad production shop used by 180LA/Sony, Fallon/Travelers, Mullen/Zappos, Arnold/Amtrak, and Carmichael Lynch/Harley-Davidson, among others.