Mike Elias — Founding Partner, President and Creative Director

 Mike has a knack for asking the right questions and engaging executives and their extended teams to extract and synthesize business strategies, communications goals and effective marketing messages.  He has a 15-year-long track record of working with major brands such as Intel, Adobe, and Facebook to find meaningful creative solutions and manage large, complex groups of stakeholders to deadline goals.  He believes the best marketing and creative emerges out of an environment where client ideas and agency ideas can connect freely.

Prior to founding Kinetic Story, Mike was a Principal Partner and Creative Director at Silverstein and Associates, an agency that specializes in developing events, video and keynote speeches for technology brands. Mike started his career with a variety of marketing and management roles at Intel, where he managed websites and teams for intel.com. Mike’s final role at Intel was as an Executive Program Manager in the Event and Speakerships Group, where he produced speaking events around the world for Intel’s CEO and other senior executives. His favorite road story involves a dog, a pony, a clown and an angry German stage manager at an ultimately successful event in Berlin.

Jon E. Seaman — Partner, Chief Branding and Strategy Officer

Jon is known for tackling complex branding and marketing challenges with deep customer and market insights. He has a 23-year-long track record of driving brand awareness, engagement, and loyalty with both consumers and businesses in healthcare and technology markets. Jon believes the best results come combining ambitious goals with unified common sense strategy.   “Every touch must clearly communicate what you want your audience to think, feel and do cemented by the framework of your brand promise and identity.”

Prior to partnering in Kinetic Story, Jon was Global Brand Director and Director of Consumer Marketing for Intel-GE Care Innovations, a healthcare technology company.  Jon spent over 15 years at Intel and is an expert in corporate and product branding.  He was entrusted to lead the development of Intel’s brand promise for enterprise customers and led the branding, messaging and marketing strategy for two Intel funded startups. Jon also drove the marketing strategy development and campaigns for Intel’s business products worldwide for 10 years.

Jon has a deep empathy for healthcare consumers and is an advocate for organ donation and transplants.  As a grateful recipient of a kidney transplant from an anonymous living stranger, he’s experienced the highs and lows of healthcare from the inside.