Meet The Team

Combined, our team has over 55 years of PR and marketing experience with business-to-business, consumer and venture capital organizations – both agency and corporate side. When you work with Stepping Out Communications, you’ll only receive senior level attention – always.

 

Lisa Copass

Lisa Copass, co-founder of Stepping Out, provides clients with public relations strategy, media positioning, and program development and execution. Lisa has 19 years of technology PR experience with companies of all sizes, from start-ups through Fortune 500 organizations. She's played key PR roles at companies including AppStream, Ariba, Baan, Hewlett-Packard, Intira, KIVA (Netscape), Motive, Persistence (Progess), Tandem, Terayon and Xsigo Systems. Her strong strategic positioning and media skills garner regular client appearances in key industry and business publications. Prior to starting Stepping Out, Lisa worked at leading Silicon Valley PR agencies including Blanc & Otus, Copithorne & Bellows and Manning, Selvage & Lee, and held a senior corporate PR/Marketing position, at Intira Corp. Lisa is an honors graduate from the University of Colorado holding two Bachelor of Science degrees - one in anthropology, the other in communications. lisa@steppingoutcomm.com

 

 

Jennifer Kammeyer

Jennifer Kammeyer, co-founder of Stepping Out, provides Stepping Out clients with communication coaching, including message development, presentation creation, and delivery rehearsal with video feedback. Jennifer has 20 years of marketing and public relations experience in the technology and venture capital industries. For 12 years, she worked in public relations, primarily at Blanc & Otus as a senior director servicing clients including Ariba, Business Objects, Persistence (Progress), and Sybase. For the past 8 years, she broadened her scope, providing marketing communications services as a consultant. Throughout her career, Jennifer has coached high-level executives on effective communication to key audiences such as the media and financiers. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Management Science degree from University of California, San Diego and has continued her marketing education through U.C. Berkeley Extension and San Francisco State University. jennifer@steppingoutcomm.com

 

 

Carole Sinclair

With over 18 years experience in marketing, advertising and high tech public relations, Carole has expertise in corporate and product positioning, consumer and technology communications strategy, media and analyst relations. She has written annual reports, supervised the creation of investor videos, and launched over 15 startups. Carole has counseled a broad range of technology companies with equally broad PR and marketing challenges from venture funded start-ups to pre-IPO companies and venture capital firms to publicly traded market leaders. These include Woodside Fund, Gizmoz, Bag Borrow or Steal, Plumtree Software, Xsigo Systems, Tandem, and Sun Microsystems. Additionally, during her advertising days, she worked with Avia, GAP, and Neutrogena and was on the creative team that came up with Gap’s “With every generation there’s a gap.” A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Carole holds a Bachelor of Arts degree. carole@steppingoutcomm.com