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Chris Marentis

Chris Marentis

Chris Marentis is the Founder and CEO of GenNext Media LLC, a revolutionary interactive media and marketing company, and creator of the Surefire Social lead generation marketing system. With over 25 years experience leading traditional and interactive marketing businesses, Chris is a recognized leader helping Fortune 500 companies as well as small business use new technology to enable dramatic growth.

Chris is the former CEO of Clearspring Technologies, one of the most widely adopted venture-backed Web 2.0 technology platform companies in the world. During the Web 1.0 boom, Chris led the industry as Senior Vice President of America Online's (AOL) Interactive Marketing group. Working with some of the world’s most progressive and successful companies, Chris and the AOL interactive marketing team created the blueprint for online marketing, ecommerce and content branding in the new medium.

Chris has spent the last 27 years working with hundreds of global businesses successfully transform their marketing strategies by adopting new technologies and practices. His focus and expertise is using powerful, low-cost technologies (including web services, cloud computing, semantic web and AJAX)—combined with new techniques like social media, crowd sourcing, viral marketing, educational marketing and search engine marketing.

GenNext Media LLC is focused on helping companies re-think their business paradigms and become innovators in this new “distributed web.” Chris’s years of experience as an innovator in both traditional and interactive media have allowed him to develop proprietary processes and techniques—that bridge technology with accountable marketing and social media principles in order to drive revenue growth. Surefire Social is custom designed for small business to win big in the new digital marketing world.

Chris lives outside of Washington, DC, with his wife and daughter, where he enjoys living the entrepreneurial lifestyle and giving back to charitable causes. When not working or traveling, Chris enjoys golf, tennis, skiing, and watersports.

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