About Our Team

Michelle Stinson Ross

Marketing Operations Director

Michelle is Apogee’s internal marketing strategist. She is responsible for growing our website, blog, social marketing, industry thought leadership and advertising footprints. She is also a key consultant to the internal team and the clients.

Michelle has written about digital marketing for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch, and Forbes. She is national industry conference speaker for SMX, Pubcon, Digital Summit.

Michelle is passionate about writing and storytelling and is working on a novel. She also loves social dancing – salsa, tango, cha-cha, and swing.

Chris Glazer

Sr. Director of Operations

Chris is our Director of Client Operations. He helps clients grow. His responsibilities include sales, managing and growing high-priority clients, and acting as an operational leader for the company. He strives to look at the whole picture of a business and use marketing to help companies achieve their goals.

Chris has an MBA in Digital Management and has been in the Digital Marketing industry since 2015.

He is a die-hard Red Sox fan and enjoys spending time with his wife, dog Willow, and two cats.

Andrew Boyd

Account Manager

Andrew is one of Apogee’s Account Managers. He helps develop strategy, support the Service teams, identify potential new opportunities for our clients, and makes sure the relationships run smoothly and the clients’ needs are met. He has worked with international, domestic, and local companies across a multitude of industries and business models.

Andrew enjoys golfing, playing volleyball, going to the gym, and being outside (preferably around water!), and loves taking advantage of the countless opportunities to enjoy live music that Austin offers.

Lena Sidhu

Digital Paid Media Mgr.

Lena is a part of Apogee’s paid marketing efforts. She has previously managed multi-million dollar per month campaigns with positive results. Lena worked in-house at a large insurance company prior to starting her career at Apogee. In her current role, she is responsible for developing strategy for clients and the subsequent implementation of that strategy.

In her free time, Lena likes to frequent concerts at various venues across Austin. When she’s not at a concert, Lena likes relaxing at home with Tex-Mex and stand-up comedy.

Patrick Dunn

Sr. Digital Paid Media Manager

Patrick leads Apogee’s Paid Search department. His team is responsible for the strategy, implementation, and growth of all Paid Marketing efforts. He has experience working both in-house and at agencies in both Houston and Austin. He has successfully managed campaigns across multiple industries including several multi-million dollar a month campaigns.

Patrick enjoys making music when he’s not busy lowering our client’s CPAs.

Brad Abanilla

Sr. PPC Specialist

Brad started his career at Apogee Results as an intern. He is currently responsible for strategy development and implementation for our paid search clients, and consistently provides substantial revenue growth YoY for several clients.

Brad has been playing musical instruments from a very young age. Anything from the piano, marimba, and a plethora of percussion instruments. However, his true passion lies in competitive gaming.

Clarissa (Fonseca) Chen

SEO Specialist

Clarissa is part of Apogee’s SEO team and also works on Conversion Rate Optimization. She is responsible for making sure clients’ websites show up at the top of search engine results pages as well as well as optimizing sites for conversions. She has also been integral in creating viable products that gathered support on Kickstarter and other funding platforms such as Teespring.

Clarissa has always loved running, music and animated movies. She enjoys running with her dog, Darwin, and challenging herself to surpass personal records.

Daniel Lira

SEO Specialist

Daniel is a homegrown Austin native and a BBQ connoisseur that graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management. He developed an interest in Digital Marketing soon after graduating and joined the Apogee team in 2017. He has provided effective SEO services for clients ever since.

Daniel played the trumpet for 7 years, is bilingual, enjoys swimming, owns a boxer pup and is always on the lookout for new food spots around Austin.

Brent Schiffman

SEO Manager

Brent is Apogee’s SEO Manager. His team is responsible for the strategy, implementation, and growth of all SEO efforts. He has several years experience working for a variety of companies and has been a key member of the Apogee Results team since mid-2017. Brent is a strategist with a demonstrated history of driving growth for clients. He is exceptionally strong at technical SEO and content strategy.

Chad Torres

Senior Account Manager

Chad has been one of Apogee’s Account Managers since 2006. He manages customized marketing strategies for key accounts, maintains a thorough understanding of clients’ end-use markets, their important customers, and their main competitors. He also helps grow client partnerships and cultivates and strengthens relationships with client decision makers and influencers.

Chad loves to spend his free time with his family and is an avid hunter and shooter.

Mark Genung

Director of New Client Success

Mark is a born and raised Austinite and is the Director of New Client Success at Apogee Results. His job consist of generating new business for the agency. Mark is an industry leader with over 15 years of digital media experience, working with brands and agencies such as Southwest Airlines, AT&T, GSD&M, and The Richards Group.

Mark played High School Football with the All-Time Leading NFL Passer, Drew Brees.

Kyle Nations

Client Development Director

Kyle’s mission is to grow our agency and our clients. He is responsible for pursuing new markets and attracting and onboarding new clients. With a passion for digital marketing and sales, Kyle feels right at home at Apogee Results. He takes great pleasure in helping companies figure out what to do so they can achieve great results.

With a long career in business development and marketing, Kyle brings both big and small company experience to Apogee Results and our clients.  He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in business and two college-age sons he loves to brag about. A lover of sports, he is both participant and spectator and is particularly fond of the water, hiking, and snow skiing.

Erika Tapie

SEO Associate

Erika is part of Apogee’s SEO team. She recently graduated from Sam Houston State University with a degree in Mass Communication and began working for Apogee Results in late 2018. New to the industry, Erika is a current SEO Associate that helps clients by providing effective SEO services and content writing.

Erika played soccer for 16 years, enjoys trying new food, going on hikes, dad jokes, attending music concerts, and playing with her pups.

Santiago Gutierrez

SEO Associate

New to the industry, Santiago is an Austin native that graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, with a concentration in Marketing. He joined the Apogee SEO team shortly after graduating in 2018. He is currently responsible for providing clients with effective SEO best practices in order to best appear on the search results page. Santiago enjoys playing soccer, being outdoors and traveling to new places.