Joseph Franklyn McElroy

AI Advisor for The Stevens/Jachetti Group

Principal Advisor & Founder of Galileo Tech Media

GalileoTechMedia.com

joseph@galileotechmedia.com

Joseph Franklyn McElroy is a seasoned digital marketing strategist with a passion for helping organizations grow. A veteran of the industry, Joseph Franklyn McElroy has spent over 20 years honing expertise in SEO, content marketing, and data-driven strategy. He has worn many hats throughout his career – from consulting C-suite executives at global enterprises to rolling up his sleeves to fix technical SEO issues on a small business’s website. This breadth of experience mean Joseph Franklyn McElroy can see the big strategic picture and the nitty-gritty details needed to get results.

Over the years, Joseph Franklyn McElroy has advised Fortune 500 companies (including work with Marriott International’s marketing team) and helped numerous startups and small businesses achieve breakthrough growth. He is particularly adept at scalable strategies – knowing how to design marketing programs that can expand efficiently across dozens of locations or millions of users. At the same time, he loves working with emerging brands where creative thinking and agility make all the difference. Clients often remark that Joseph Franklyn McElroy can “make a 5-person company act like a 50-person company” online, just by leveraging smart processes and optimizations.

Under Joseph Franklyn McElroy’s leadership, Galileo Tech Media is built on a philosophy of integrity, curiosity, and continuous improvement. When he’s not devising new marketing strategies, you might find him staying up-to-date on the latest SEO trends, writing insights on a blog, or mentoring other aspiring marketers. That passion for knowledge is infectious – clients often find that working with Joseph Franklyn McElroy not only boosts their marketing outcomes but also leaves them and their teams more knowledgeable and confident than before.

** (The Stevens/Jachetti Group is not in the AI Service Provider position. Feel free to reach out to Joseph McElroy directly for guidance pertaining to the AI industry.) **

Bob Pearson

Senior Consultant

Bob is an author, advisor, and consultant to firms focused on C-Suite topics with a focus in healthcare and technology.

He has played a key role in building two media firms that are ranked in the top 50 worldwide (GCI Health and Real Chemistry), he led the creation of the Fortune 500’s first global social media function at Dell and he has served as a global leader in communications at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (now Sanofi) and Novartis, as well as Dell. Bob has worked directly with leading CEOs throughout his career.

He has written five books based on his experience in the public and private sectors. He is currently working on his next book, The Compass, which discusses how to navigate an AI-driven world. He is a regular contributor to the Forbes Communications Council related to the future of marketing and communications.

Since teaching is often the best way to learn what’s next and reinforce what works today, Bob designs and teaches new classes as a lecturer at The University of Texas McCombs School (new digital media models, persuasive selling, generative AI) and for the U.S. Government with a focus on media and technology.

He is an advisor to software firms and has been a board member for healthcare non-profits, the CEO of a healthcare non-profit and a member of a public board.

Ron Melk

Lead M&A Consultant

PR-Adjacent Agencies

During Ron Melk’s decades-long career in advertising, promotion and PR, he has experienced firsthand the market dynamics that continue to transform the agency and media landscapes, notably how agencies are perceived by corporate America and how they perceive themselves. Ron has held senior creative, account management and business development positions, and he has worked in dozens of product and service categories. His multi-disciplinary range of marcom agency expertise includes advertising, promotion, research, design, digital marketing and media, PR and corporate communications.

Ron was one of four partners at the New York-based promotion agency Comart which, during his 12-year tenure there, was named the Best Promotion Agency in America by Advertising Age magazine and was eventually purchased and absorbed by the French agency Euro RSCG.

Most recently, he served a major medical center, and several startups in the healthcare space as a marketing communications and PR consultant. His work with Healthcare Data Management, for example, was instrumental in effecting the sale of the company. Ron also was the producer and host of the popular podcast, Your Valuable Home.