The Walker Group

Walker's specialty is in developing highly strategic go to market strategies for companies that need to drive sales and revenue or position for a merger or acquisition.

Before forming The Walker Group, Walker directed worldwide marketing strategy and operations for USInternetworking as its VP of Marketing. AT&T acquired USi in 2006. Chris Walker joined USi in 2000 from Digital Education Systems, where he directed business development. Paragon Solutions acquired Digital Education Systems in 2000.

As Director of Message within the Office of Legislative Affairs at the White House, Walker helped formulate and execute the President's communications strategy and was specifically involved in driving support for key White House priorities including NAFTA, MFN for China, the TeleCom Act of 1996, and Campaign Finance Reform.

Chris is a graduate of Duke University. He and his family live in Washington, DC.

Neill's specialties are developing effective strategies that drive revenue through meaningful interactive experiences and working with executives and founders to create and deliver a message that resonates in the marketplace.

Neill has worked on marketing strategies and programs for brands that include Marriott International, Tyco, BlueCrossBlueShield, Tecumseh, Preferred Hotels, Tandberg, Pew, and the Washington Post. Tim has also managed partnerships with agencies such as Ogilvy, Vertis Communications, and Porter Novelli.

Before agencyQ, Tim served as CFO and Executive VP of Strategy for a number of early-stage start up companies.

Prior to his career on the web, Tim studied Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Virginia. While many find that path a bit convoluted, Tim believes that his research on Rastafarians living in the Cape Province of South Africa provides solid insight into the potential for media to provide a meaningful shift in language, perspective and behavior.

Prior to The Walker Group, Lucash was Chief Marketing Officer of SecureInfo. Under his leadership, the company developed a renewed focus and achieved 50% revenue growth from 2006 to 2007. Lucash joined SecureInfo after serving as Vice President of Marketing for e-Security, Inc. During Seth's tenure, the company grew by more than 50% and his innovative sales and marketing strategies led to e-Security's successful acquisition by Novell in April 2006. 

Lucash also served as Vice President of Marketing for POMS Corporation, Director of Marketing for GE Global eXchange Services, Vice President of Marketing for B2eMarkets, Vice President of Marketing for Digital, and held several sales and marketing positions at IBM. A number of these companies had successful exits during his tenure.

Lucash graduated from Binghamton University with a degree in management and did his graduate studies at Rice University in organizational development. Seth lives with his family in the Washington DC area.

Over the course of his career he has created marketing and market intelligence programs for CEO’s of F100 service providers, as well as for founders and chairman of VC-backed start-up’s. Kepler has researched and written hundreds of reports, white papers, and articles, including the first-ever market report on Business Process Outsourcing. Kepler has also been a noted analyst and speaker at various industry events.

As a U.S. Army officer, he has also trained in leadership, intelligence, maneuver, and logistics. In addition to his national service, Kepler has also worked in local community as a full-time teacher for a public middle school on the U.S. federal government’s “needs improvement” list, and he continues to volunteer, as as friend and mentor to at-risk individuals who are battling mental illness, developmental disabilities or the isolation that can come with getting older.

His formal education and training include an M.A. in International Policy Studies from The Monterey Institute, University of California and a B.A. from Duke University.

Kepler’s work and education have taken him all over the world, and include multi-month project work in Russia, Hong Kong, and Ireland, as well as graduate-level research and work in Russia and China. He has lived abroad in Moscow, Dublin, and Tokyo, and traveled to over 30 countries.

Her expertise and track record in the technology, outsourcing, professional services and software industries have earned her a reputation for putting companies, from Fortune 500 multinationals to privately held start-ups, on successful paths of profitable new growth.

Prior to joining the Walker team, Amy Claire was Vice President of global marketing for TeleTech Holdings Inc., a business process outsourcer operating in 19 countries. There, she refocused the company’s marketing strategy and sales positioning, resulting in revitalized new business growth. Before that. she served in a similar role for customer care outsourcing specialist StarTek.

During her tenure as Vice President of Marketing at security startup Webroot, she repositioned its brand identity and refocused its product portfolio, producing product line penetration in retail and online channels and doubling revenue for eight consecutive quarters prior to a venture investment transaction.  And, at London-based e-commerce specialist Izodia PLC, Amy Claire led marketing operations across 11 countries.

She spent a “formative fifteen” years early in her career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) where she developed business-entry, product/service and organizational/acquisition strategies for emerging markets.

Amy Claire began her professional career with GM in 1978 in industrial engineering and computing and earned her Bachelor of Science from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), GM’s private undergraduate engineering program. Originally from Seattle, Amy Claire has lived in West Africa, the UK and across the United States.