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.

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.

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.

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.

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.