Best Places to Work in the Bay Area

Northbound is honored have been selected a winner by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal with a place on this year's prestigious "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area" list. The "Best Places to Work" program acknowledges small, medium and large companies that provide outstanding workplaces based on their employees' evaluations.

Best Overall Company of the Year

Northbound LLC voted as a finalist in the 2008 and 2009 Stevie Awards for "Best Overall Company of the Year - Service Business (up to 2500 employees)".

Fastest Growing Company of the Year

Northbound LLC voted as a finalist in the 2008 and 2009 Stevie Awards for "Fastest Growing Company of the Year".

Srikant Sharma
EVP, General Manager

Srikant Sharma brings two decades of experience and business acumen to Northbound. His areas of expertise include business strategy and execution, driving market demand, sales and marketing. Based on strong backgrounds in financial services, engineering and manufacturing, and enterprise software, Srikant is able to guide Northbound's customers in targeting their customers via a solution-selling approach. Srikant's previous roles included running Americas Strategic Sales & Marketing at Open Text's Web Solutions Group, Global Marketing to the financial services sector at Interwoven (Autonomy). Srikant's educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Bombay, and an MBA from Cornell University.

Chrissy Dal Porto
VP Demand Generation Services

Chrissy Dal Porto is an innovative, results-driven marketing executive with proven ability to drive demand. For the past 15 years she has established a track record in delivering lead generation initiatives resulting in dramatic top line growth. Her core competencies include demand generation, ROI metrics & reporting, alliance and industry marketing, marketing automation, CRM optimization and enterprise social networks. Her previous roles include Director of Americas Marketing at Borland Software and Strategic Account Manager at Bank of America. Chrissy's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Literature and European History from University of California at Santa Cruz and raised in Rome and Paris, she speaks fluent Italian and French.

Maurice Troute
Director of Sales

With a passion for technology, Maurice has spent the better part of 20 years selling and managing the sales efforts of a very diverse group of technology firms. With a background in telecommunications, networking and digital imaging, Maurice understands the need to sell value over price and solutions over products. Maurice is currently working to bring that passion and experience to others as the leader of our Sales Production organization.

Married to a successful interior designer, Maurice now understands the value of a throw pillow, and his education in Psychology from Western Oregon State College is put into use every day as the father of a 16 year old boy and 6 year old twin girls. In his free time he is an aspiring photographer, an under skilled webmaster and longtime SCUBA diver.

Lesley Barnes
Client Partner

Lesley Barnes' career has been dedicated to working in marketing and advertising in the tech, health and art industries. After starting her career at Extensis, a software start-up, as a Marketing Programs Manager, she moved on to agency work. Helping clients such as Hewlett- Packard, Diamond Multimedia and CreativePro launch products, build brand and drive demand. Through her career, she found her strength in marketing strategy. Helping her clients understand their market and customers values to define a strong, realistic and functional marketing strategy is her strong suit as well as a keen understanding of the need for strong project management to achieve defined results. Lesley's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism. She's a professional photographer and an aspiring writer.

Deanna Martignetti
Client Partner

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Deanna brings many years of client service and project management to Northbound. She spent the beginning years of her career working for companies such as Hewlett Packard and 3Com. She eventually moved into the agency side working as an Account Manager at a top marketing & advertising agency in the Bay Area. She spent 10 years managing integrated marketing projects for companies such as Borland Software, Delta Electronics, Fine Science Tools, Tyco Electronics and TaylorMade-adidas. Accustomed to working in a fast-paced, creative environment serving as a liaison between the client and creative team, she has a proven record of on time project completion and first class customer service. Deanna received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from San Jose State University. She enjoys traveling.