Who We Are
You're in Good Company
We define a founder as someone who is building a new firm within NPG.
They have a vision of what can be created, they have financial responsibility (P&L), and we are here to support them to make it happen. It is our view that founders should remain founders and continue to pursue their dream and our collective dream of building the next generation agency model. Within each firm, they will tell you more about their leaders, who do an awesome job of really making it happen.
Our Founders
Since you will hear more about their teams via their sites, we’ll just focus on each founder along with a brief description of their vision.
Founder and Managing Partner, The Bliss Group
CORTNEY RHOADS STAPLETON
Corporate storyteller and marketing architect. Relentlessly in pursuit of smart, unique, global/local marcom programs focused on what matters most to you and your audience.
Learn MoreFounder and Managing Partner, The Bliss Group
MICHAEL ROTH
Integrated communications executive who builds innovative & impactful programs, supports rapid business growth and counsels C-suite & senior marketing executives across multiple industries.
Learn MoreGlobal CEO, The Next Practice
CHRIS FOSTER
A global business & communications leader, investor, adviser and strategist. Chris brings 20+ years of experience in senior roles at Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Y&R to help define what’s next.
Learn MorePresident, The Next Practice
COLIN FOSTER
Founder, digital transformer, analytics lover, integrated marcom strategist. With two decades in global roles both client and agency side, Colin has led many organizations through massive change.
Learn MoreCEO, The Next Solutions Group
RAY KERINS, JR.
Prior to joining The Next Solutions Group as CEO, Ray was communications, government relations and foundation lead in the U.S. for one of the world's largest agriculture, consumer and healthcare companies. He brings strong global and regional experience in reputation management, corporate reputation, and crisis/issues management.
Learn MoreChief Data Scientist, NPG and CEO, Ringer Sciences
YASH GAD, PHD.
A data science leader who has helped companies create industry-changing technology innovation pipelines in healthcare, marketing, and retail.
Learn MoreCEO, Matchfire
CHRIS NOBLE
With more than 20 years of experience running high tech startups, Chris built a career around identifying, championing, and executing new ideas. Chris guides Matchfire in helping brands do good in the world. He has broad experience in creating and launching new businesses, marketing campaigns, and products - including the ability to take existing products and chart new directions, or to start it all from scratch.
Learn MorePresident, Matchfire
JOEY LESLIE
Joey brings over 20 years of award winning experience creating and managing unique social good campaigns for major entertainment studios, large national charities and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He’s directed online and offline cause campaigns that have raised over $100 million for non-profits across the United States.
Learn MoreManaging Partner, Matchfire
BRIAN POWELL
Brian is an integrated marketing leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, and a strong advocate of ideas with business and social impact. His experience spans strategic planning, branding, product development, advertising, business development, promotions, digital, and cause marketing for some of the world's most iconic brands.
Learn MoreChief of Business Strategy, NPG; Founder and CEO, Brain + Trust Partners
TIM HAYDEN
With 20+ years of marketing and business leadership experience, Tim has founded several new ventures and been a catalyst for transformational progress for some of the world's largest brands.
Learn MoreChief Technology Officer, NPG; Founder and CEO, Victory CTO
JOHN CUNNINGHAM
A veteran entrepreneur with 3 successful startups under his belt specializing in operations while building and delivering large-scale, highly availability consumer facing applications.
Learn MoreChief Technology Officer, NPG; Founder and CEO, Victory CTO
CHRIS CHILEK
Veteran business architect and founder of multiple successful startups specializing in tech, data-driven process, multi-disciplinary perspective, & "Math+Magic" method for organization-wide alignment.
Learn MoreChief Media Officer, NPG; Founder and CEO, RocketSauce Media Labs
DAVID PIERPONT
An entrepreneur, thought leader in performance media, David has worked with top brands across verticals, developed technology and digital solutions for government, non-profits and political campaigns.
Learn MoreChief Integration/Client Officer, NPG; Founder & CEO, RocketSauce Media Labs
JULIA THUMAN
With deep agency and in-house leadership experience across industries, Julia relentlessly focuses on solving client’s business challenges via new and innovative media strategies that drive results.
Learn MoreChair, NPG; CEO, The Bliss Group; Chair, The Next Solutions Group
BOB PEARSON
Advisor, Author, Professor, Entrepreneur. Built two top-50 media companies, led comms at Dell & Novartis, professor at UT, lecturer U.S. State Department, advisor to media software companies.
Chief Experience Officer, NPG and The Next Practice
TRACY ARRINGTON
Marketer, Strategist, Analyst, Planner, Professor, Author. Tracy believes in working smart, collaboration, planning when you can and adjusting on the fly when you can’t.
Learn MoreCFO and COO, NPG
MICHAEL GEHB
With years at network agencies leading finance & operations across digital strategy, budgeting, ops management, E-commerce and advertising, Mike is now ready to shape what’s next. Prior to The Next Practices Group & the MedicAlert Foundation, Michael was the vice president of finance and operations for global marketing and advertising company, Omnicom Group Inc.
President, Social Purpose, NPG; Founder and CEO, CHANGEx
JOHN MCNEEL
Forged by two decades in leadership roles at global network agencies, John has been a pioneer in the social purpose space at in/PACT, a scalable giving platform that links purpose to purchase.
Learn MoreFounder and CEO, NextTech Communications
JANINE SAVARESE
Janine brings more than 20 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, and marketing. With a focus on storytelling, she advises on programs that range from thought-leadership initiatives to crisis communications, and product launches. She consistently delivers results for her clients due to the deep relationships she has built with top-tier media and industry influencers over the years.
Learn MoreCo-Founder and CEO, Boundless
KERRY HILTON
Kerry founded the company in 2001 and has helped transform the agency into one of the leading medical marketing firms in the country. During the past 21 years, Kerry has recruited top-tier talent to lead Boundless into its third decade, encouraging boldness in its leaders and striving to inspire everyone. He has been recognized by PharmaVoice Magazine as one of its top 100 inspiring individuals.
Learn MoreChief Commercial Officer, Boundless
FRANCESCO LUCARELLI
Francesco exemplifies the Boundless value of “embrace challenge." During his more than 25 years in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, he has overseen product launches and developed results-driven strategy in a wide variety of leadership roles.
Learn MorePresident, Next Content Labs
CHRIS MARTIN
As a Producer on the venerated news magazine “60 Minutes," Chris worked closely with legendary reporter and anchor Dan Rather. After 14 years at CBS, he went on to work as a producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show. And in 2014, Chris founded the strategic marketing and communications consulting firm LEVER.MEDIA (formerly CAVU Media Works) where he worked with numerous companies to help hone messaging, solve communications challenges, and elevate brands and public profiles.
Learn MoreManaging Partner, NPG
DAVID GALLAGHER
Global PR strategist and business leader with a history of helping organizations and brands thrive though purpose, resilience and impact. Twenty-five years and more at Ketchum, Omnicom and at the head of British and global trade groups. Author, speaker and dual US-UK national.
CEO Next Practices Group Health (NPGH) and Bliss Bio Health
GLORIA VANDERHAM
Industry veteran Gloria Vanderham leads both Next Practices Group Health (NPGH) and Bliss Bio Health as Chief Executive Officer to help clients across the health continuum disrupt the healthcare ecosystem and remove barriers to optimal care with an unrelenting focus on the whole person and their health journey. Gloria is a creative, values-driven leader who has more than two decades of global, regional and local country experience in communications, digital and social media marketing. She understands the challenges and opportunities from the agency and in-house perspectives and brings invaluable patient insights to drive business impact for our clients and strong leadership for our teams.
Learn MoreOur Companies
We developed the concept of NPG in 2020 during the middle of Covid-19 and officially stated January 2021. We’re just getting started. 180 people have decided to work with one of our firms and for that we are thankful.
We have offices in New York City, New Jersey, Dallas, London and soon in Austin. We select offices based on where our team is located and where our clients live and work. Click on the logos below to learn more about each company and their teams.
BLISS BIO HEALTH
We are an AI-infused, next-generation life sciences marketing communications firm that partners with clients across the health continuum, focusing on the whole person and their health journey.
BOUNDLESS LIFE SCIENCES GROUP
Creative campaign development and omnichannel execution are just the start at Boundless. We offer a broad catalog of strategically focused, analytically driven services.
BRAIN + TRUST PARTNERS
A strategic consultancy, empowering brands to compete at the speed of the customer and grow revenue.
CHANGEx
At CHANGEx, we are relentlessly determined to put more purpose back into corporate purpose: radically focused, tangible and authentic, measurable and accountable.
NEXT SOLUTIONS GROUP
Protecting and advancing reputation, our team has a broad range of experience in business, government and journalism.
NEXT TECH COMMUNICATIONS
We are an integrated communications agency for companies that. We work with technology innovators and the industries they're disrupting, across all stages of growth from startups to the Fortune 500.
RINGER SCIENCES
We are a data science and analytics consulting firm that works with companies of all sizes and across industries to help them leverage data to make informed business decisions backed by research.
ROCKETSAUCE MEDIA LABS
We are an innovative media services agency that meets the customer where they are, delivers content that people want and makes it easy for them to return over and over again.
THE BLISS GROUP
We are an insight-driven marketing communications agency that blends data science with the art of storytelling to target priority audiences with precision, empathy and purpose.
THE NEXT PRACTICE
We are a team dedicated to unlocking the potential energy that exists at the intersection of Purpose, Analytics, and Human Creativity.
VICTORY
Victory is the world's leading Hypernetic Solutions consultancy, delivering business evolution through technology, data-driven process, and cross-disciplinary experience.
MATCHFIRE
Matchfire is an award winning digital marketing and design agency specializing in purpose-driven work.
NEXT CONTENT LABS
Next Content Labs focuses on developing strategic, short-form content solutions and quick-turn videos for businesses, non-profits, healthcare systems, and individuals to help brands shine.