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.
- Wine Snob 10%
- Ballroom Nerd 20%
- Caffeine-fueled Marketer 70%
Chris Glazer
Director of Client 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.
- Live Free or Die New Hampshirite 30%
- Business-Minded Marketer 20%
- Red Sox Junkie 50%
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.
- Concert Goer 40%
- Outdoor Enthusiast 30%
- Lakers Fan 30%
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.
- Dad 100%
Patrick Dunn
PPC Manager
Patrick is Apogee’s Paid Search Manager. 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.
- PPC Geek 40%
- Music Nerd 40%
- Coffee 20%
Brad Abanilla
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.
- PPC Wiz 40%
- Competitive Gamer 30%
- Musician 30%
Clarissa Fonseca
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.
- Caffeine-Fueled Runner 50%
- Caffeine-Fueled Digital Marketer 50%
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.
- Sneaker Geek 20%
- Foodie 30%
- Dog Dad 50%
Kenny Madison
SEO Specialist
Kenny is an SEO Specialist. He makes sure the websites we work with are optimized for users and for search engines. He does this by looking at the technical spaces and by looking at the content on each page as well.
Kenny has written on behalf of clients for Rifinery29, Bustle, TheBerry, SheKnows, and many more.
Kenny is passionate about movies and comedy. He writes about movies and comedy in his free time and also teaches comedy professionally at The Institution Theater.
- Over-Achiever 40%
- Movie Buff 35%
- Comedy 30%
Bill Leake
Founder, CEO
Bill Leake, CEO of Apogee Results, draws on a deep expertise in both business and marketing to help increase revenues for a wide range of clients. He has been involved in driving provable revenues through Internet marketing techniques since the early 1990s when, as part of the management team at Power Computing, he built the first company to sell $1 million of product over the Internet.
As founder of Apogee Results, he has guided the company from inception to its current position as the largest search engine marketing company in Texas, one of the 20 largest independents in North America and one of the fastest growing companies on the Inc. 500 / 5000 list.
- Family Guy 50%
- Goat Herder 20%
- Internet Marketing Nut 30%
Recent Blog Posts
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Splashing Outside the Digital Box
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2018 Award Winning Work
2018 Award Winning Work by Michelle Stinson Ross During the fall conference season, Apogee Results was honored with the recognition of our industry peers for a sample of the work we do all year long for our clients. In October of 2018 the fully integrated work we do...
The Marketing Lessons of Sears, Roebuck
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