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Nicole is a sales and marketing veteran. She has nearly four decades of industry experience and 20 years of online advertising experience. Throughout her career, she has created thousands of comprehensive plans that include traditional media to SEM, SEO, display, email marketing, native and content solutions. Skilled in evaluating, implementing and tracking marketing strategies for positive results, she enjoys providing digital training and extraordinary customer service to clients. In addition, Nicole has coordinated and successfully executed numerous professional and community events from conferences to live auctions.

She has range. Nicole is a Girl Scouts volunteer leader with two troops, cigar aficionado and coffee overachiever. Her claim to fame is being born at the now Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and having lived in Virginia her entire life, a true local. Her greatest achievements by far are her amazing children, who are hardworking, loving and inclusive individuals.

This guy is an innovative and passionate graphic designer with decades of experience in traditional and digital advertising, marketing, editorial and website design. Throughout the years, he has led teams of designers, photographers, videographers and illustrators and produced many award-winning, high-end visuals and branding for products, businesses and publications that are not only strategic but also often emotionally resonate with audiences. He has worked with thousands of clients over the years in almost every industry.

EJ also is a capable musician, amateur chef, coffee addict and animal lover. His greatest fears are being trapped in a small space and, thanks to watching the movie “Jaws” as a child, being eaten alive by sharks. To quote the wise Quint, RIP, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”

Almost two decades in the biz, Lori has covered fractional CMO with over 30 law firms and served businesses such as Registrar Corp, Cox Communications, STIHL and Currituck County, North Carolina.

At Qantm, she works with clients such as The Breeden Company; Carmines, Robbins & Company; Gates Milling; Colley Executive Offices; Hampton Roads Workforce Council; Lago Mar Beach Resort & Club; Manassas Economic Development; Historic Manassas; Manassas Parks and Recreation; City of Norfolk, City of Manassas; Sail250; Sundial Resort & Spa; Virginia Health Services and Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development. Digital marketing makes her happy because of how highly targeted and measurable it is.

Something to know about Lori: she loves her dog Luna, a sometimes visitor to the office and her beach buddy, which makes sense because both prefer vacays in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. A wildcard Lori fact: she still has two baby teeth.

The daughter of an accomplished Black former executive in the industry, the communications business is just a part of Nealy’s DNA. In the industry herself for a couple of decades, Nealy started out as a journalist and copy editor and has since transferred her skills to the corporate, nonprofit, government and now agency world. As PR director, she brings her passion for storytelling, relationship building and attention to detail and grammar to her role. Nealy has helped companies win several awards, including a Stevie International Business Award, Public Relations Society of America Pinnacle awards, an LACP Vision award and a Nielsen Norman Group Intranet Design award. She received her bachelor’s degree in mass media arts from Hampton University and a master’s degree in writing from DePaul University and has her accreditation in public relations. She is also a former Maynard Institute Fellow and was part of the LEAD Hampton Roads Class of 2014 (the best class ever!).

Nealy is also active in her community, serving on the Norfolk Tourism Foundation and Virginia Beach Public Library Advisory boards. Nealy is also a member of Black Brand, the Hampton Roads Black Chamber of Commerce, and the Public Relations Society of America.

Outside of work, she is a published author with a passion for short-term mission trips with her church. She also practices aerial arts, can eat fire, loves spending the spring and summer berry picking and is her family’s appointed baker. Her claim to fame? She’s related to the great late jazz musician and bandleader Dizzy Gillespie … but failed miserably at learning trumpet.