Marsh Sutherland
President | Co-Founder
Favorite social network: LinkedIn



Living by the philosophy of “givers gain” and recognized as one of Boston’s best business networkers, Marsh is a social and business networking evangelist. The inventor of SocialGrow’s patent pending engine, Marsh has held a number of technology management roles at deNovis and Akibia, and is a former technology consultant with KPMG. Marsh founded the Boston BizSpark™ Meetup, co-founded the Web Executives Group on LinkedIn, manages the Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network group on LinkedIn, and chairs the Boston Chapter of the Technology Executives Networking Group and the Boston JavaScript Meetup. Marsh earned his MBA and JD degrees from Arizona State University and his Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies, with minors in Mathematics and Philosophy, from Pacific Lutheran University. A proud Washingtonian, Marsh is a member of the Washington State Bar Association.

Marsh has been appointed a Microsoft Solutions Advocate and will attend the prestigious Nantucket Conference in 2010.



Ken Herron            
Chief Marketing Officer | Co-Founder
Favorite social network: Twitter



SocialGrow’s “cool hunter” for new ideas, strategies, and technologies, Ken’s passion is helping people, brands, companies, and academic and government organizations around the world to effectively participate in social media’s online networks and communities to achieve their desired goals. Ken joined SocialGrow™ from Online Buddies, where he was the Chief Marketing Officer of one of the world’s largest global social networks. Prior to that, Ken was the Vice President of Interactive Strategies for Realogy, the global parent company of a family of consumer and commercial franchise real estate brands. Ken spent his early career in a series of marketing, strategy, and operations leadership roles with telecommunications giants Avaya, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T. Along with being selected to participate in the Marketing Management Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in Stanford, California; Ken earned his Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, and his Bachelors in International Economics and German from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. A native Californian, Ken currently lives in the epicenter of marketing innovation, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ken has been appointed a Microsoft Solutions Advocate. In February 2010, Ken was named one of the world’s “Top 5″ Chief Marketing Officers by Systemic Marketing for his use of Twitter for @SocialGrow.




Charbel Elkhoury
Chief Technology Officer | Co-Founder
Favorite social network: LinkedIn



A technologist with a “human touch”, Charbel co-founded his first startup — Human Micro Processing — in 1991. Since then, Charbel has helped companies worldwide to strategically use their information technology to more quickly and cost-effectively achieve their business objectives. SocialGrow’s technical brain, Charbel previously held senior-level technical managerial positions with KokoFitClub, Greenfield Online, Eleven Technology, Trimble Mobile Solutions, and Siebel Systems. Charbel earned his Ph.D. in Information Technology Management from Capella University in Minneapolis, Minnesota; his MBA from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada; and his Bachelors in Computer Science from Beirut University College in Beirut. Lebanon. Charbel enjoys keeping ahead of the game on cutting edge technologies.




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