about us

Elizabeth Ames

Elizabeth is a Silicon Valley consultant with over 20 years of technology marketing experience. She has held senior marketing and general management positions with Netcentives, Apple Computer and Verifone, and consulted for a broad range of well-known and emerging companies, including Excite, Netscape, Podbridge, Sapias, Sony, Sun Microsystems, TriCipher, and Vidient.

Elizabeth works with start-up companies, venture capital firms and on leading-edge initiatives for established technology companies. She enjoys the entrepreneurial environment and has a passion for developing and marketing innovative products. Very knowledgeable in product marketing as well as marketing communications, she brings a strategic capability combined with a can-do practical approach.

Patrick Ames

Patrick brings a unique blend of publishing and technology experience, from running a successful independent publishing house, to launching Apple's networking books of the mid-1980s, to founding and creating Adobe Press in the 1990s (who continues to be a powerhouse technology imprint), to co-founding Octavo Corporation who preserves, digitizes, and distributes copies of rare books and manuscripts, and who now works on the macro level as a corporate literary agent for companies such as Nokia, Palm, Juniper, and Accenture. He helped create Nokia Developer Press, Palm Books, the Juniper Networks Technical Library and more corporation publishing programs.

Patrick works with major technology companies as well as business and technology leaders to develop and implement strategies that leverage technical expertise, business insight, and market experience to further business objectives and meet the information needs of business partners and consumers. He delivers strategic insight into what will succeed in the book publishing marketplace.