Kathy Cox

Kathy Cox brings fresh ideas and executive experience to help companies succeed. With over two decades of marketing management experience on both the agency side and the client side and as the founder and chief executive of two Internet companies, she develops strategies meet bottom-line objectives. Kathy started her career on the agency side with SCC&B;:Lintas and Admarketing, managing accounts such as Carnation Company and helping launch seven pioneering subscription TV entities. Expanding into line responsibilities, Kathy moved to the client side as a marketing executive in top media companies, including Viacom, Times Mirror, and TCI Cablevision. She won several cable industry awards and was the president of the Bay Area Cable Cooperative. She then moved to the Pacific Northwest first negotiating the Seattle Mariners’ first cable television rights contract and then launching NorthWest Cable News (NWCN). As head of marketing, she helped to make NWCN the highest rated regional cable news network in the country. As an Internet entrepreneur, Kathy founded FilmPix, a movie information service, with funding from media analyst, Paul Kagan, which was ultimately acquired by Hollywood.com. She then founded ParentOrganizer, an online communications tool used by schools and community organizations to inform and interact with families. Kathy has also published a guide to her home town of Kirkland, and has brought her marketing skills to consulting assignments for clients such as Winterbrook Beverages, Edgate, Tolar Manufacturing, and Sol, Inc. Kathy graduated cum laude in broadcast journalism and political science from Ohio State University and received her MBA from Pepperdine University. She judges competitions for Washington DECA, the high school business education organization. She developed a new planning system for the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Marketing Association as the Vice-president of Planning and is the current President elect.