2023 Pinnacle Awards
Special Recognition Awards
This “category” arose from Judges’ comments and recommendations during the scoring process. We asked them to make notes about entry elements that were especially powerful, impressive, and/or creative that they would recommend honoring in their own right. The result… Special Recognition for Excellence! We have FOUR finalists in this category – these each have their own area of excellence and are not ranked.
Read about our 2023 finalists below.
InfoTrust: for their campaign – We Wrote the Book on Data Privacy” Literally.
InfoTrust is a privacy-centric digital analytics solutions company that empowers marketers to make confident, data-driven decisions. InfoTrust partners with enterprise organizations in the CPG, retail, media, health, and finance spaces. We are a certified Google Marketing Platform Sales Partner and Google Cloud Partner with offices spread across three continents.
Meet the dynamic marketing team at InfoTrust: Chase Howell, VP of Marketing; Natalie Shawver, Head of Content Marketing; Brooke Steurer, Marketing Automation Specialist; Lean Villanueva and Jay Alalawi, Graphic Designers; Amanda Luebbe, PR & Event Marketing Specialist; and Peyton Jourdan, Digital Marketing Intern. With expertise in data-driven strategies, compelling content, automated campaigns, stunning designs, media presence, and digital marketing, this team is dedicated to driving success and making a lasting impact in the industry. Together, they bring innovation, creativity, and a passion for results to every marketing initiative at InfoTrust.
Revision Collection: Simplesoft Rebranding effort
Revision Collective, is an employee-owned holding company that unites Ingage, Fivestar, and Simplesoft in a shared mission: leveraging business for positive impact. Our shared services model allows us to support our sister companies as well as offer a select number of services externally to the public.
Ryan Payne – Senior Designer
Ryan is an experienced brand and digital product designer. He helps product teams solve problems by asking the right questions and sweating the details. On weekends you’ll find him spending time outside with his family or roasting coffee in his garage. Or drinking coffee. He really likes coffee.
Patrick Schirmer – Web Developer
Patrick’s love for coding began in childhood, tweaking video game files for a competitive edge. This early fascination blossomed into a successful career, marked by his significant contributions to numerous websites and software applications. A problem-solver at heart, Patrick’s passion for technology and coding drives his professional accomplishments. Outside of work, he cherishes family time, fervently supports local sports teams, and experiments with emerging technologies.
Alex Toth – Marketing Director
Alex leads the Marketing charge at Revision Collective. She embodies the belief that genuine connections and purposeful endeavors can help us navigate the complexity of this world. From this lens, she’s helped numerous brands in all domains of marketing over the years. With a passion for shaping brand identities and driving impactful campaigns, Alex’s expertise lies in crafting compelling stories that resonate. Beyond the 9-5, Alex practices and teaches aerial yoga, quite literally gets lost in the woods, and enjoys spending time with her family and dog.
The Brand Evaluator: Modernizing the story of an 80-year-old company, Alexander and Associates
The Brand Evaluator helps entrepreneurial companies and nonprofits convey their unique value through brand building strategy and engaging communication design that builds equity and drives results. Our focus is helping organizations make an impact in their communities through clear and consistent branding.
The Brand Evaluator is led by co-founders, Michelle Thompson and Christine Sech.
Michelle Thompson is an accomplished brand strategist and creative director with over 20 years building market leader brands with Procter & Gamble. Her expertise includes brand identity and naming, packaging and digital design.
Christine Sech is an experienced agency executive whose passion is helping organizations connect with people through actionable brand strategies and stories. Her experience includes brand & design strategy, market research, and marketing working for Interbrand, IRI and Nielsen BASES.
Our website development and pitch deck writing partner was 5 Whys Marketing.
UC AMA CATALYST team: Marketing Case Competition
This team consists of members of the University of Cincinnati’s AMA CATALYST team. A selective group of students who compete in the American Marketing Association’s International Case Competitions.
Our team included Autumn Jenkins, Sam Foley, Erica Alves, Suraj Tamang, and McKenzie Wallster. This team worked hard to fully execute this particular case by providing concrete recommendations through research.
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We thank you for attending tonight’s event and would like to congratulate our winners on their dedication to excellence. We look forward to seeing you next year!
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