About Us: Management

Donna Bletzinger
President & CEO

A Silicon Valley veteran of global corporations and startup ventures, Donna is known for crafting unique and profitable marketing solutions. She is adept at identifying target markets and key customers as well as developing creative strategies for launching new products and services.

Donna started her career at AT&T. She held leadership positions of increasing responsibility at AT&T and Lucent Technologies in marketing, sales, customer support, professional services and operations. She was on the leading edge of technology at Octel Communications and Cisco Systems where she launched new products and excelled at go-to-market strategies.

During the start-up frenzy of the 90’s, she helped build three broadband startups by securing customer field trials and speaking at national broadband conferences and trade shows.

Donna believes in giving back to the community. She served on the Executive Board of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) - San Francisco for three years. In 2005 and 2006 she chaired “Women of the Year, San Francisco”, a gala benefiting the American Diabetes Association. She is a valued guest lecturer in marketing at the Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California where she taught classes in Online PR (“Writing for the Web”) and Setting Product Strategy. She currently is a member of the East Bay Innovation Group (ebig) and is organizing new Special Interest Groups for the East Bay technical community.

Donna graduated with a BA in French and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She attended the Universite d’Aix Marseille, Aix-en Provence, France on the University’s Junior Year Abroad Program. She has an MBA in Market Management from Golden Gate University and is a graduate of the UCLA Anderson School Executive Marketing Management Program.

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