Michele Landry
CEO/Owner/Strategic Lead
Michele Landry has over 25 years of experience in strategic communications, corporate positioning, marketing and communications programs for technology companies in industries including enterprise software, wireless, networking, communications and semiconductors. She has implemented successful executive and employee communications programs, and marketing campaigns that integrate traditional, owned and social media.
Prior to Tanis, she was vice president of corporate communications of Spansion Inc., a $1 billion semiconductor company. She first joined the company after it spun out of AMD and prior to its IPO. She later rejoined the company, after spending two years living in Australia, to help transform the company following its emergence from bankruptcy. She helped reposition the company as an embedded systems leader, following the company’s acquisition of the microcontroller and analog divisions of Fujitsu, and led the communications activities for the company’s merger with Cypress Semiconductor.
Before Spansion, she held senior communications roles at NEC Technologies, Openwave Systems, Weber Shandwick and Golin Harris Communications. During her tenure at Weber, she managed its Denver office and led several startup and enterprise software clients in Denver and the Bay Area.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University and a Master of International Management degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Nicole Conley
Media Director
With more than 20 years experience with key business, semiconductor and enterprise software press and analysts, Nicole understands the best strategies and procedures for working with each one. As a former newspaper reporter, she also looks beyond traditional analysts to identify key influencers, a practice that can build credibility over night.
Thoughtful yet aggressive in her press efforts, Nicole drives company awareness, secures coverage, arranges extensive press line-ups and can strategize unique ways to get meaningful exposure, such as identifying and pitching industry trends, working with key customers to secure case studies, and uncovering interesting company and management stories for profile stories and executive Q&As. Some of her current and past clients include Connectivity Semiconductor company CSR, GPS leader SiRF Technology, Ampere, Crossbar, Intermolecular, RetailNext, EPIC Insurance Broker and Consultants, mCube, DeltaID, S3, Mercury Interactive, Everyone.net and Sana Security.
Nicole holds a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University.
Katherine Haig
Account Executive
Katherine supports the team by managing editorial calendars and status, developing LinkedIn campaigns ads, organizing press lists for our multiple clients, and building social media presence on Twitter and LinkedIn. She also creates coverage reports, builds briefing documents and monitors daily news for our clients.
During her time working at San Diego State University Global Campus as a Communication and Marketing Assistant, Katherine developed the Instagram account from the ground up. She focused on developing social posts for 4 different platforms, while reporting and researching engagement rates. She was responsible for interviewing instructors, alumni, and students, then organizing these testimonials into blog posts
Kimberly Gamble
Account Executive
Kimberly manages social media for several Tanis accounts and supports the team on PR and event activities.
She attended University of the Pacific where she received a B.A. in Communication. She was involved in the Public Relations Student Society of America and Lambda Pi Eta, a communication honor society.
