Meet the Category Thinkers Ambassadors

Our Ambassadors are an invite-only group who've committed actively growing our community. Look for them driving discussions, Slack and LinkedIn, moderating our events, and evangelizing category design at large.

Jerry Macnamara
Jerry Macnamara
CEO
ProvenChaos
Neptune Beach, FL

The Ted Lasso of CEO Coaches

Joe Zboch
Joe Zboch
Director of Marketing
Luma Health
Nashville, TN

Hunter for brain-tingling conversations | Patient Success category co-designer

Jesse Rittenhouse
Jesse Rittenhouse
Director, Strategy
Spinnaker Group
Royal Palm Beach, FL

Building the category of sustainable building consulting for hot & humid climates.

Chris Stanley
Chris Stanley
Founder / Author
IA Path & Stanley Crew
Green Cove Springs , FL

23x Author Including Mini Book Model | Creator of Virtual Adjuster Mentorship Category

Mark Kilens
Mark Kilens
CMO
Airmeet
Newburyport, MA

People-first GTM Champion and CMO at Airmeet

Lynz Floren
Lynz Floren
GM & Podcast Producer
Growth Network Podcasts
Los Angeles, CA

Podcaster, Musician, & Storyteller

Gaby Israel Grinberg
Gaby Israel Grinberg
CXO & Co-Founder
Proofpoint Marketing
Phoenix, AZ

Chief Experience Officer at Proofpoint Marketing | Podcast Host x3 | Micro-Preemie Mom

Jerome Pineau
Jerome Pineau
Principal
STARS Advisory
Orlando, FL

Business Strategy Consultant

Andreas Gebhard
Andreas Gebhard
Founder & CEO
Forward Momentum, LLC
New York, NY

Business strategy for ambitious companies and people

Pablo Gonzalez
Pablo Gonzalez
Founder & Chief Evangelist
BeTheStage.live
Jacksonville, FL

Generated $40M+ off a content-led community... using category thinking.

Diego Pineda
Diego Pineda
Founder
Thought Leadership Marketing
Kelowna, BC, Canada

Author of the Solo Thought Leadership series, category designer in marketing and education

Mike Damphousse
Mike Damphousse
Partner
Category Design Advisors
Atkinson, NH

Category Designer • Investor • Advisor • Big Idea Junkie • Boating • New England • Florida

Katrina Kirsch
Katrina Kirsch
Head of Operations & Publishing
Category Pirates
Frankfort, IL

Head of Publishing at Category Pirates

Al Ramadan
Al Ramadan
Founder & CEO
Play Bigger
Santa Cruz, CA

Co-Founder of the discipline and the category of Category Design

Joel Magalnick
Joel Magalnick
Redesigner-in-Chief
North Then West
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Helping companies refocus their value proposition on their way to reinvention

Hannah Grady Williams
Hannah Grady Williams
Founder
d'Skills
Horse Shoe, NC

Building the FIRST community of Gen Z + GPT

Anj Bourgeois
Anj Bourgeois
Founder
Catching Made Simple
Irvine, CA

Taking the mystery out of the most important position in baseball: Catcher.

Kevin Maney
Kevin Maney
Co-founder / Partner
Category Design Advisors
New York, NY

OG category designer, author, music artist

Suzanne Taylor-King
Suzanne Taylor-King
Coach / Community Founder
Taylord Coaching
Marlton, NJ

Eudaimonologist for Entrepreneurs - Become the BEST Version of You - Community Founder

Dustin Robertson
Dustin Robertson
Partner
DRMG
Salt Lake City, UT

Risky Way Is The Safe Way

Holley Miller
Holley Miller
President & Founder
Grey Matter Marketing, Inc.
Alamo, CA

Helping life sciences companies change behavior so they can change the world

Kim Bach
Kim Bach
Chief People Officer
Dailyhuman
Mills River, NC

Helping students and teams create the one thing that changes everything- TRUST.

Jenny Weigle
Jenny Weigle
CEO & Community Consultant
Jenny.Community, LLC
Los Angeles, CA

Jenny Weigle - Community Builder for Categories

Dan Schultz
Dan Schultz
Category Designer
Schultz Collaborative
Northfield, MN

Agribusiness Psychotherapist | Helping companies in agriculture think different

Kurt Thomas
Kurt Thomas
Head of Marketing
Q-PAC
Ormond Beach, FL

Recovering Engineer | Making the Scientific Method a foundation to Marketing

Christopher Lochhead
Christopher Lochhead
Category Design Pirate
Category Pirates 🏴‍☠️
Capitola, CA

A Godfather of Category Design🏴‍☠️

Isaac Morehouse
Isaac Morehouse
CMO
Reveal
St. Pete, FL

The future is Nearbound

James Carbary
James Carbary
Founder
Sweet Fish
Winter Garden, FL

Building media brands for B2B companies

Lori Goldman
Lori Goldman
Founder
Community Service
Denver, CO

"Preparing Dev Rels and noobs to run communities"

Jillian Friot
Jillian Friot
3DEXPERIENCE Lab Senior Manager
Dassault Systemes
Memphis, TN

Supporting startups with access to prototyping resources, mentors, and community.

Mike Grinberg
Mike Grinberg
CEO
Proofpoint Marketing
Phoenix, AZ

Building Relationships at Scale for Technical Professional Services Companies

Eddie Yoon
Eddie Yoon
Founder
EddieWouldGrow, LLC and Category Pirates
Naperville, IL

Strategy Yoda and the Wizard of Weird Data

Scott K. Wilder
Scott K. Wilder
Head of Customer Success
Clari
San Francisco, CA

Focused on building Customer GEMs (Growth - Engagement - Marketing - Social)

James Ricks
James Ricks
Fractional Head of Marketing
James Ricks Consulting
Mesa, AZ

Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn
President
Corey Quinn, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

I unlock sales and customer loyalty for agencies and B2B SaaS by doing less, not more

Pietro Bezza
Pietro Bezza
Managing Partner
Connect Ventures
London, UK

Founder turned VC and Category Designer. Thesis: Product Love + PLG = Outlier

Apply to Be an Ambassador

Interested in being a Category Thinkers Ambassador? 
Send an email to info [at] categorythinkers.com [dot] com with your name and a short description of why you'd like to join. We'll then set up a call so we can get to know you better.