Nell-Marie Colman

Director of Content

Nell-Marie Colman has over 20 years of content experience in the technology sector. She especially enjoys helping people discover new technologies that can transform their business. Whether she’s developing step-by-step documentation or punchy ad copy, she keeps the same goals in mind: be clear, be honest, be helpful. As the Director of Content at Gurobi, she puts these goals into practice—helping people discover how Gurobi answers the world’s most complex business questions. Prior to Gurobi, she spent 16 years at Rackspace Technology, where she covered cloud computing, applications, data, and security content. She holds a B.A. in English from James Madison University, where she immersed herself in the disparate worlds of both Shakespeare and technical writing. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two teenagers and taking long walks together, cooking, reading, and watching British sci-fi.

Colum Devine

Sr. Global Marketing Manager

Colum Devine is the Senior Global Marketing Manager at Gurobi Optimization LLC. He has over 15 years’ experience creating, managing and optimizing omni-channel, complex marketing campaigns with a focus on ROI as a benchmark for success. An experienced search marketer, well versed in Paid Search (PPC), Organic Search (SEO) and Display Advertising he has launched innovative Account Based Marketing programs to focus on high value targeting accounts and has been awarded the ABM Innovation Award for Data Driven Marketing for his efforts. He has worked with a number of industry leaders in the ABM space including: DemandBase, 6sense, Bombora, Choozle, Alyce and Kickfire. Colum holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Ulster (Co Derry, Ireland), he is ABM Certified (DemandBase), Google Certified and Certified By Digital Marketer in Short Form Copy Writing, Search Marketing and Web Analytics. He resides just outside of Boston with his family.

Angela Di Stasio

Sr. Marketing Manager

Angela Di Stasio has her bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Having graduated early, she pursued her MBA (with a concentration in Marketing and Corporate Communication) at Fairleigh Dickinson University as well. Angela has spent the majority of her Marketing career working in the technology industry. Her background includes social media, demand generation, PR, events and email marketing, to name a few. She is well-versed in Marketo and SFDC. Angela lives in New Jersey with her husband and enjoys spending time with her family, baking and trips to the Jersey Shore.

Marlene Hopewell

Marketing Manager

Marlene has been in the startup tech environment for over 10 years, with experience growing an Ed tech company called Magnus Health through two successful acquisitions. After Magnus, Marlene most recently worked for a small company in the SAP ecosystem. Marlene currently lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania with her husband and their two pugs. In her free time, she enjoys reading, running/biking or anything outside, snowboarding and spending time with friends and family.

Adam Horowitz

Marketing Operations Director

Adam is a data-driven growth marketer and technologist. He has over 15 years experience with end-to-end campaign management, aligning sales and marketing teams, and driving revenue in high-level complex work environments for Fortune 500 organizations and Start-ups. He is a passionate, dedicated problem solver who brings ideas to market through building strategic marketing solutions that support mission-critical business objectives and drive innovation. Adam holds a M.A. in Advertising from The University of Texas. He is an avid backpacker, yoga enthusiast, and guitarist, who loves sharing those interests with his two children.

Paloma Lucas Jambrina

Partner Ecosystem Program Manager

Paloma brings an extensive international experience in Marketing, Business Development and Events Management. Prior to Gurobi she led partners to be successful through their marketing strategy at PTC (SaaS solution space) delivering growth, designing and optimizing B2B marketing programs and enabling solution providers, system integrators and distributors to plan and execute their go-to-market strategy. Before, she contributed to Bigpoint´s growth (computer games) building and cultivating strong business relationships and in the events industry, she led a team to execute remarkable events. Paloma is a curious individual who uses her positive character and tireless energy to encourage and inspire others. Having started a life from scratch in Italy, Germany and Scotland, where she earned her MSc at Edinburgh Napier University, lives now in Barcelona where in her spare time loves to spend time outdoors and to discover every corner of the city.

Lindsay Montanari

Academic Program Director

Lindsay brings over 13 years of experience working at the intersection of technology and education. Prior to Gurobi, Lindsay worked as an Operations leader at Opex Analytics, a product and services firm dedicated to solving complex business problems using the power of Artificial Intelligence. While there, she focused on growth and business development, product launch, and marketing. Lindsay spent 10 years working in various leadership capacities at Universities including Columbia University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. From 2013 to 2017, she worked to establish and grow the Master of Science in Analytics degree at Northwestern University’s School of Engineering, the program was one of the earliest MS degrees focused on an applied data science curriculum. During her time with Northwestern, she managed external relations and corporate relations, helped hire and onboard new faculty and subject-matter experts in various disciplines of analytics, directed recruiting efforts/admissions/student advising, and managed a team of administrative professionals. Prior to Northwestern, she spent over 5 years working in Advancement at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.   She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in English and Fine Art at Sewanee: The University of the South and her Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management at Columbia University.

Silvana Quintero

Director of Ecosystem Marketing

Silvana Quintero brings more than 13 years of experience to the company. Before joining Gurobi, Silvana worked at Minitab (predictive analytics software vendor), Anixter (global technology distributor), and Oracle (Engineered systems, enterprise, and software products) in the design, planning, implementation, and execution of marketing campaigns, sales enablement programs, and demand generation strategies with customers, partners, and distributors. As an Electronic Engineer with an EMBA from the Loyola University of Chicago, Silvana pairs her passion for technology with business, helping organizations to create profitable partnerships and measurable marketing strategies that enable companies to deliver the most value to customers. In her spare time, Silvana loves traveling with her family, reading, dancing, and water sports.

Nick Roman

Director of Creative Services

Nick Roman brings over 15 years of branding experience for B2B and B2C companies. Early in his career, he helped implement the first digital advertising network in Mall of America, NY MTA, San Francisco BART and helped to design an iconic billboard in the heart of Times Square. At HarperCollins, he was responsible for the creation and buildout of online communities, sweepstakes and interactive content dedicated to promoting popular book series. Prior to joining Gurobi, Nick was a Senior Creative Director leading overall brand strategy and global marketing programs including website, SEO, PPC and sales enablement.

Nick enjoys spending time with his soon-to-be wife, reading about technology and playing handball.

Vanessa Schmidt

Marketing Manager

Vanessa studied International Business & Cultural Management and has almost 10 years of experience in marketing and events organization. In the past, she organized webinars, business events and trade shows all over Europe and being the team leader for B2B partnerships at her last position, she was responsible for international growth and business development. She developed innovative marketing strategies and created market entry plans to introduce various brands and companies to new markets increasing lead generation and brand awareness exponentially. Being a German native and having lived in different countries such as Spain and the U.S., she has gained lots of international working experience opening her insights on how marketing can have a bigger impact if tailored to the target market’s culture. Vanessa currently lives in Spain and loves traveling, skiing and spending time with family and friends.

Kathleen Spalding

Marketing Manager

Kathleen Spalding has worked with marketing teams all over the world implementing strategies for digital and account-based marketing. Her passion for tactical and inventive marketing are fueled by her keen analytical mind, creative thinking, and 15 years of experience in an industry that is infinitely interesting and absolutely essential- supply chain. As a frequent blogger, Kathleen shares insights on accelerating digital optimization strategies to address the challenges of an increasingly disruption-prone world. Kathleen is an Atlanta native and holds a B.B.A in Marketing. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, spending time with her family and serving as VP of Communications for her Homeowners Association.

Pamela Trevino

EMEA Marketing Manager

Pamela has a Msc. Degree in International Management from Paris School of Business. She began her marketing career at Citrix as Marketing Specialist then moved to AdaCore firstly as EU Marketing Manager then as Global Marketing Manager. She has great expertise in B2B marketing in the software industry and actively contributes to position marketing as a growth enabler. In her past life she was a stage actress in Paris and enjoyed travelling all over France to perform in small villages.

Isela Warner

Global Marketing Senior Director

Isela Warner is the Director of Marketing at Gurobi Optimization, LLC. She has more than 20 years of experience in marketing in the high-tech industry. She is responsible for lead generation, PR and digital marketing with a team of passionate marketers. Prior to Gurobi, Isela worked at IBM for nine years driving global marketing campaigns for Watson Retail, Watson Commerce and IBM CPLEX. She also worked at ILOG, Inc. for three years supporting the ILOG CPLEX business. Isela holds a Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University. She currently resides in beautiful Reno, Nevada with her family.

Jerry Yurchisin

Data Science Strategist

Mr. Yurchisin has over ten years’ experience applying operations research, machine learning, statistics, and data visualization to improve decision making. Before joining Gurobi, Jerry (who also goes by Jerome) was a Senior Consultant at OnLocation, Inc. where he customized several linear programming models within the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) to analyze implementing specific energy policies and utilizing new technologies. Prior to OnLocation, Jerry was an Operations Research Analyst & Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton for over seven years. There he formulated scheduling and staffing integer programming models for the US Coast Guard, as well as led a project to quantify the maritime risks of offshore energy installations with the Research & Development Center. Further, Jerry was the technical lead on several Coast Guard studies including Living Marine Resources and Maritime Domain Awareness, providing statistical analysis and building supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. He also performed statistical analyses, machine learning modeling, and data visualization for cyberspace directorates at DoD and DHS. Jerry has several years of experience teaching a wide variety of college-level mathematics and statistics courses and has a passion for education. He also enjoys golfing, biking, and writing about sports from an analytics point of view. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, son, and two dogs. Jerry holds B.S., Ed. and M.S., Mathematics degrees from Ohio University and an M.S. in Operations Research and Statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.