As President and CEO at MarketStar, Keith Titus is responsible for leading the organization in all long-term strategic planning, revenue growth strategies, business innovation, client success and corporate operations.

Under Keith’s leadership, MarketStar has evolved into a highly focused and specialized B2B sales as a service provider, launching sales and revenue solutions for some of the biggest and brightest companies in the world.

Keith joined MarketStar after working at Motorola Solutions for eleven years, where he was most recently the Head of Strategy for Global Sales and Field Operations. Additionally, he held several other senior operations, sales and marketing roles during his tenure at Motorola including; Chief of Staff to the CEO of Motorola Mobility, Product Marketing and Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to Motorola, he worked at MarketStar leading several VAR and retail accounts.

Keith earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Weber State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Utah.

Ben Kaufmann sets the strategic financial vision for MarketStar and directs our finance, accounting, and legal teams. Ben has deep experience in and a passion for the technology industry and in it’s capacity to unlock economic value by aggregating human intelligence to solve intractable problems.

Prior to joining MarketStar, Ben was the CFO for the $15B Global Enterprise Business at HPE where he led a successful turnaround of that business based on a three pronged approach of aligning culture with strategy, re-engineering business process’ to drive transparency and accountability, and re-calibrating investment capacity to drive growth. During his time at HPE he also held leadership roles in organizations with financial and strategic accountability for Strategic Account Sales, Strategic Alliance Partnerships, Inside Sales, Pricing Strategy, Divestiture Management & M&A integration. Prior to HPE, Ben spent several years in transaction advisory roles in the mortgage banking and venture capital industries.

Ben earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics from Utah State University and an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Brigham Young University. He enjoys exploring the world through the eyes of his four children. He and his family currently reside in Liberty, Utah.

Paul has a passion for relationship management and business development. An experienced enterprise leader, Paul is responsible for driving revenue and growth at MarketStar through our uniquely talented marketing and business development team. He relishes an environment of teamwork, success, finding balance in life and lives for great experiences in the outdoors.

Prior to joining MarketStar, Paul held the role of Executive Vice President at Teleperformance where he worked for 15 years and held various roles. He was responsible for business development, client services and operations for a large global business unit. During his tenure, Paul opened, acquired and expanded sales and service centers in the U.S., LATAM and APAC regions and was a driving force behind many major client accounts worldwide. Paul previously worked for MarketStar early in his career, leading direct inside sales teams.

Paul earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration-Marketing from Weber State University.

Justin Nalder is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations and is accountable for MarketStar’s human resources, talent acquisition, talent development, Business Intelligence, and project management teams.

Prior to joining MarketStar, Justin spent 14 years in various roles involving Human Resources, Risk Management, Customer Service, and Retail Operations with Famous Brands International, the parent company of Mrs. Fields Cookies and TCBY. Between 2015 and 2017, Justin was the General Manager of DAS Shared Services, providing Accounting, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Talent Acquisition support services to MarketStar, Creative Channel Services, and Creative Channel Retail. Justin is results focused with a proven track record of leading diverse teams, delivering financial and operational results, and improving cross-functional team work and customer experience. He has been married for 20 years, has two daughters, is a second degree black belt in Hap Kwon Do, and enjoys spending time with his family in the outdoors.

Justin received a Bachelor of Science in Management from the University of Utah

Angela Towns currently serves as the Chief of Staff and Corporate Communications to CEO, Keith Titus, of MarketStar in Ogden, UT. During her 18 years with the company, she has worked for all three CEOs and several executive teams. Her primary responsibilities are to work with the executive team to ensure that time and energy are aligned to strategic priorities, build strong relationships with team members, organizations, shareholders, and community partners. Alongside marketing, she oversees internal and external communications to improve business outcomes and progress toward corporate initiatives. She heads the MarketStar Women in Business group with a focus to elevate women in all aspects of the business. She attended Weber State University from 1994-1996 and received a paralegal certification in 2009. Recently, she successfully completed the Career Development Series with the Women’s Leadership Institute. Angie also serves on the University of Utah Executive Education Advisory Board.

As SVP of our Dublin-based operations, Tony is a familiar and influential voice in the organization and brings a depth of expertise and innovation that has accelerated our demand generation and growth trajectory. His valuable knowledge, skills, and proven capabilities enable him to engage and influence leadership, partner with stakeholders across the business, lead strategic conversations with prospects and clients, drive product positioning in the market, and focus the team to create and retain growth.  

Joel has 10 years of experience in fast-paced sales for a number of technology and IT companies, driving indirect channel partnerships and revenue. As technologies shift and emerge, Joel continues to follow trends in digital engagement models to build high impact sales and marketing programs. He brings a talent for creating unique revenue-driving solutions, capitalizing on efficiency, effectiveness, and utilizing a technology-led sales process.

Joel’s experience at MarketStar as the Vice President, Strategic, gives him the opportunity to focus on key clients, where he develops and manages Direct and Channel Go-to-Market/Channel strategies. He has also worked as SVP, Channels and Business Development for Lendio, and was a Director for Simply Mac, an Apple Computer retail and business services company. Joel also founded ThresholdGives, the largest regional non-profit cycling club of its kind, to promote health, wellness, and cycling safety through community events and programs.

Joel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business/Finance from Westminster College, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah.

Dan Peterson is a Senior Vice President over our newly formed Digital Ad Sales Business Unit. Dan has been leading our internal client teams as Vice President since 2018. In that time, he has been instrumental in growing our client business to include more than 600 full-time positions. Dan was a pioneer for MarketStar in building ad sales capabilities, and leading our very first Digital Ad Sales client team in 2012.

Todd has a history of building and mentoring sales and customer success professionals, utilizing team focused sales and customer success processes. He previously led a large outsourced enterprise sales team in North America for IBM, and he has held influential leadership positions at Omniture, which eventually sold to Adobe. He was also instrumental in building a world-class Customer Success department at inContact and InMoment. In 2016 he was elected to the Pleasant Grove City Council in Utah, and was recently re-elected for another four-year team.

Jonathan Blythe is our Vice President and Head of EMEA Operations. Jon is a seasoned veteran in the outsourcing business and has a broad depth of knowledge in our industry as well as connections with many great industry leaders. His desire to help create growth for our people in Dublin and our ever-growing roster of clients worldwide make him the perfect choice to infuse our ongoing growth strategy in EMEA and the rest of the world.

Shea comes to MarketStar with over 18 years of experience in sales and sales leadership. He spent the last 3 years as a VP of Sales helping early-stage startups develop and launch their sales teams. Prior to that, he spent nearly 5 years at AdRoll/Rollworks where he served in several global leadership capacities, including Head of Sales & Account Management and Senior Director of Agency sales.

Phil is a highly skilled and energetic leader with more than 25 years experience in directing marketing and corporate communications teams. His career spans stints in professional sports, consumer goods, and non-profit expertise, both in founding and acting as a board member on various organizations. Phil is an avid reader, an expert audiophile, and a certifiable Star Wars geek. He is a proud Bonneville Laker, Weber State Wildcat, and a dedicated spouse and father of three.

A passionate and committed community builder, Danette excels at connecting people to people for productive and powerful outcomes.

A highly effective relationship-based communicator with a diverse skill set, she thinks big on creative strategy and delivers growth that strengthens communities.

Danette loves to put all the wheels in motion and turn ideas into action through dynamic interpersonal and organization skills, detailed planning, cohesive team management, solution-based decision making, and focused follow-through.