Establish a powerful digital experience custom-built to ensure maximum ROI for all your marketing efforts.
More customers, increased revenue, and peace of mind knowing you have a team of experts driving you forward.
In a world with more than one billion websites, competition to engage and convert customers has never been tougher. To achieve your digital marketing goals today, you need a great end-to-end user experience, with content, design, and development all working seamlessly together. That’s what Gravitate delivers.
We’re a team of brutally honest experts in our field building long-term, collaborative relationships with clients through meaningful, measurable digital marketing that drives real results.
When it comes to our people, our clients, and our community; always do what’s right, expect more, and give back.
Aditya Raikar
Director of Growth
Ariel Dunn
Digital Strategist
Ariel is a true PNWer at heart. She loves craft beer and will pursue challenging hikes to enjoy an epic view with good company.
She can pull the deepest of deep cuts from your favorite episode of The Office, and claims to 'get better over beer.' -- After two years, we can attest, it's true. Trust us when we say: you want her on your growth team, and if you have an office trivia team, count her in for that too.
From ad design to content writing, social media, and photography, throw any creative task at her and she'll conquer - it's kind of her jam.
Blake Goble
Account Coordinator
Blake comes from the land of sunshine and surfers but much prefers his music venues dimly-lit, filled with hardcore jams.
Obsessive of clean inboxes, SciFi, and being the proudest new member of the parenthood crew - assume all puns intended.
Brian Landi
CEO
Brian, a man who wears many different hats: - a skilled pianist - an avid reader - a walking pop-culture encyclopedia - and of course, CEO!
Always ready with a witty quip, Brian brings his indisputable talent and problem-solving enthusiasm to any project he gets his hands on!
Chad Stoecker
Fresh from the east coast, Chad is settling in naturally with the relaxed lifestyle that the west coast offers, especially here in the pacific northwest. Don’t get it twisted though– he approaches challenges head on with aggressive strategies to drive results. He takes his work like he takes his coffee, straight up with no fuss.
Chelsey Wyatt
Chelsey Wyatt is a PNW native who has spent over three years specializing in Paid Social Ad Strategy for both large enterprise or start-up level companies. She functions as a strategic partner who loves combining humor and positive thinking and brings the brightest attitude to even the toughest client calls. There's no challenge she won't meet head on.
On days off you can find her wine-tasting with friends, walking her dog around town, spending time with family, reading, or playing video games to unwind.
Chris McGuire
Web Developer
Chris is self-described as a medium-sized houseplant. He likes to spend most of his time in dry soil with only the occasional drink of water. The key to a happy Chris is good soil drainage, and believe us, he starts to wilt with too much water. When he’s not sipping on indirect sunlight he likes to lean slightly towards the window. PS, he’s a great web developer.
Chris Pacanins
Account Manager
With deep roots in the Pacific Northwest, this Texas transplant loves binge-watching Seinfeld, playing soccer, exploring new restaurants with his wife, and socializing with complete strangers. Not in a creepy way, of course. Chris is a problem solver at heart and believes that collaboration and transparency are the keys to any successful project.
Clay Woodward
VP of Operations
Clay is responsible for making sure our studio runs with buttery smoothness. His long tenure with Gravitate makes him the go-to guy when you need a question answered or embarrassing facts about coworkers.
Colleen Pyle
VP of Client Experience
Colleen daylights as our VP of Client Experience, whose attentiveness and exhaustive list-making leaves no detail behind. Under the pressures of deadlines, budgets, and convincing coworkers that there is good country music, she's one cool cat. The only time this California native breaks a sweat is when she's deep on a backpacking trail or snowboarding run.
Don Elliott
President, Managing Partner
Don leads Gravitate as a compassionate visionary, dedicated to creating positive change for people. As a natural commander of growth and a pristine track record of scaling multiple national agencies, he has shown his dedication towards the community and clients alike. Don’t mistake him for being all business though… he’s casually a non-fiction writer, Dungeon Master, and a scotch connoisseur. And just like the perfect balance of a glass of Oban 18, Don is equal parts of creativity and getting shit done.
Emma Kardaras
Senior Designer
This Chicago transplant has a passion for crafting intuitive and visually captivating digital layouts. With over 8 years of experience at Gravitate, she consistently delivers innovative solutions that align with her clients’ goals. When she’s not immersed in design, Emma enjoys the company of her two black cats, and spending time at the Oregon coast.
Fred Love
VP of Enterprise Marketing, Partner
A seasoned veteran with 30 years of experience in Silicon Valley and Tokyo, Fred loves marketing and looks forward to his work every day. Drawing on experience at global brands like Disney, Sony, and HP, he helps startups punch above their weight with kick-ass websites and next-level digital marketing. But enough talk -- let’s raise some unicorns.
Gary Langan
Gary is a Vancouver-born and raised native. During his time off, he’s online exploring digital worlds, working on his car, or exploring the great Pacific Northwest, taking photos along the way. He comes to Gravitate from Washington State University Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture program, and now puts his superpowers to work on every client account he touches!
Ian Crane
Partner
Ian comes to Gravitate with an extensive background in development, including building an event software company from the ground up - eventually leading to an acquisition. If you have a development issue, Ian is your go-to. He'll have a solution almost as fast as his highly modded S2000.
Jacob Merrill
Web Producer
Jacob has no secret talents. He cooly shares his bag of tricks with everyone. It doesn’t matter if he's bringing your non-profit’s message to life with a gorgeous landing page or fixing his motorcycle with his flawless, “never-been-broken bones” — Jacob doesn't mind jumping in and solving problems, rather nonchalantly we might add.
Jason Lance
Creative Director
If you want to know what Jason is up to on a given day, check his headwear. When wearing his short-brimmed hat — slightly askew — he's digging into deep strategy or focused on design. If you can see his hair — generally freshly cut and coiffed — it's presentation day; look for him in the conference or white board rooms leading the charge with one of our clients. When he's not at his desk, look for Jason killing at ping-pong, cultivating his review site of the best mac and cheese in town, or telling stories of Gravitate back in the day (he's been here 17 years!).
Jeremy Ross
Director of Development
Having learned HTML in the mid-90’s, when the world wide web was accessed through a modem and comic sans was all the rage, Jeremy loves to stand in the gap between technology and the people who use it to make sure it serves them well. When he’s not at his (giant) monitor or slinging code, you can find him hanging with his family and friends, sipping on some wine or whiskey.
Joel Adams
Joel is an Alaskan born, Portland living web developer, visual artist, and life of the party. Few things make Joel happier in his professional life than delivering fast, responsive web design. In his spare time you can find him practicing photography, painting miniatures, or shredding on the banjo.
Julia Stewart
Meet Julia, our Strongwoman of SEO! When she's not busy lifting heavy weights and competing in powerlifting contests, she's busy optimizing websites to rank higher than the bar she just set. And with her deep understanding of digital marketing and her love of dogs, Julia knows how to use data to sniff out opportunities for our clients and unleash their potential for growth.
Julianne Spencer
If her collection of certifications (Scuba, Wilderness First Aid, and hopefully her most-utilized: U of O MBA) is any indication, Julianne’s innate curiosity and discerning resolve makes her an ace of an account manager. With her COVID pup, Harry, at her heels (and only sometimes across her home desk), this serial hobbyist draws from a deep bench of brand management, advertising, and PR to ensure no stone is unturned in the quest for results-backed growth for her clients.
Kelly Riegler
Senior Account Manager
Kelly approaches results the same way she approaches weekends: completely unafraid of an uphill climb. Ask her for help wrangling chaos and she’ll serve it back to you in neat rows - the same way she likes her whiskey.
With a tool belt of marketing expertise and keenness for KPIs, you need Kelly as the steadying hand of your growth team.
Lorena Elliott
Finance Coordinator
Hailing from Torreón, Mexico, Lorena comes from a long career as a dancer, choreographer, and instructor. Equal parts artist and technician, she has an eye for detail and brings passion to everything she does from coordinating finances to corralling the CEO.
When she's not crunching numbers you can find Lo hiking in the gorge, watching guilty pleasures on TV, or lounging by a heated pool listening to Silk Sonic and 90's neo-soul but really you can find her with friends and a glass of prosecco singing Coda at karaoke—and it's probably the eighth song of the night.
Lukas Leary
Senior Account Consultant
Born in the frigid north—well beyond the tame Northwest—Lukas was forced to fend for himself at a young age and checks all the stereotypical Alaskan boxes. He’s tall, mustachioed, wears western vests, and knows how to domesticate a moose (wait, what?!). More importantly for Gravitate’s day-to-day, he comes from a family of entrepreneurs and understands both the challenges and rewards of marketing your business.
Matt Malone
VP of Growth
Pete Sherwood
Director of Content Strategy
Don’t let the ever-present hat fool you (he took it off for this one photo), Pete is "all business" when it comes to taking websites from good to great. Pete writes compelling copy for users as well as search engines, and while he's sensitive about his overuse of em-dashes, he's constantly churning out succinct, targeted copy for clients in a variety of industries.
Prabhash Thakur
Digital Coordinator
Rachel Billick-Smith
Catch Rachel hanging from the ceiling while practicing her moves during an aerial exercise class on the silks or lyra. She has a passion for all things K-pop, Lady Gaga, dance and her Siamese cat, Sammy. Not only is she nimble, but has also dabbled in powerlifting (double the protein in her Chipotle bowl).
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of balance displayed during working hours while she nimbly supports both paid search and paid social efforts for clients.
Rory Piecuch
SEO Specialist
SEO is no stranger to updating its best practices and changing on a dime. Enter: Rory Piecutch, Gravitate’s very own SEO Jedi Master. There’s no challenge too great for this self-starter, and he is continuously learning and expanding his knowledge base to deliver the highest quality results for our clients.
We’ll put it plainly… You want Rory on your growth team. He gets shit done by driving business growth results that (actually) matter.
Will Ashworth
Development Team Lead
Will brings a 23-year passion for web development that gets results. He enjoys tinkering to discover what makes something tick (or how to make it insanely better). He loves to explore the outdoors and enjoys getting creative with candle wax or discovering new music in his spare time.
William Hamal
William tackles technical SEO like Travis Barker tackles a drum kit: with enthusiasm and a natural ability that leaves us speechless. He loves all things analytics and data, knowing that the environment can change faster than a speeding ticket, which is why he knows staying up to date with the evolution of our platforms is key to delivering great results.
If you are smart, incredibly talented, or just simply too clever for words, you may have a home at Gravitate. We are always on the lookout for hardworking, passionate people to join our team. Our culture is laid-back, dog-loving, and has zero tolerance for bureaucratic BS.
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