Graeme Thickins

Founder & President, GT&A Strategic Marketing Inc. (www.gtamarketing.com)

Graeme Thickins is a technology marketing consultant, new media strategist, and startup advisor -- who's *always* looking for interesting gigs. He's the founder of GT&A Strategic Marketing Inc., a marketing, communications, content development, and startup advisory consultancy he formed in 1982 after working for two pioneering Fortune 500 technology firms. Graeme has helped more than 100 tech firms launch, grow, and prosper, many from the initial concept stage. He has also served in several interim roles as a content development and marketing executive for Minnesota-based emerging technology firms. Since 2005, he has written the well-read Tech-Surf-Blog.com, which focuses on technology trends, entrepreneurship, innovation, startup issues, venture capital, and other topics, and often reports from major technology conferences around the country. He's also a regular contributor to Minnov8.com. In 2007, Graeme began helping clients take advantage of new trends in social media and marketing. In the past few years, he's been an advisor to several startups, including an iPhone app developer, a rich-media advertising technology firm, a disruptive storage startup, and a new cloud computing management tools company. To put Graeme on your team, it all starts with an email to graeme@thickins.com.