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Meet The Team

Marketing Leaders with a vision for the future

Chalva Tchkotoua

Chalva Tchkotoua
Founder & Managing Director

Chalva is a senior strategy consultant and marketing specialist, with prior leadership roles at consulting firms Cognizant Technology Solutions and Accenture, he has extensive experience with developing and driving growth strategies and marketing programs for small to midsize firms (SMB).

He has also worked with smaller private equity-backed B2B SaaS businesses in Financial Services, Communications, Media, Technology, and Retail. By analyzing key market data using AI-driven insights and analytics, he helps companies in their market positioning against key competitors and in their market expansion efforts on their journey to double-digit revenue growth.

Chalva focuses on deploying generative AI to unlock operational efficiencies and drive revenue growth. Leveraging design-thinking workshops, he helps clients envision the “art of the possible” to uncover new value opportunities. Over the past decade, he has served as an operational CMO and growth leader, partnering with companies’ sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams to craft go-to-market strategies that maximize competitive advantage, accelerating digital transformation and helping clients win market share.

He holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from Villanova University and is trilingual with fluency in written and spoken English, French and Spanish.

Separately, he is a certified NAUI Search, Rescue, and Recovery diver and rescue swimmer.

Michele Anderson

Michele Anderson
Founder & Creative Services

Michele Anderson is an award-winning marketing and creative leader with over 20 years of experience shaping impactful strategies across industries such as technology, AI, health and wellness, health-tech, food industries, education, SaaS, and retail. Renowned for her ability to distill complex ideas into clear, engaging marketing campaigns, Michele’s work consistently drives measurable results, from increased audience engagement to significant revenue growth.
She combines strategic insight, a visionary approach, and hands-on expertise in delivering tailored marketing solutions, making her a trusted partner in building client-focused offerings. Michele’s career reflects a commitment to innovation, collaboration, and turning challenges into opportunities to elevate brands and create lasting impact.

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Chalva is an outstanding B2B technology marketing executive. His deep understanding of the product, technology, and software landscape and his strategic marketing expertise make him an invaluable asset.

He consistently leverages analytics to refine campaigns, ensuring that every initiative is creative but also measurable and impactful. As a team leader, Chalva is collaborative, approachable, and a great communicator. He fosters a culture of innovation and teamwork, empowering his colleagues to contribute their best ideas. His open communication style and positive attitude make him a natural mentor, and his passion for driving measurable results is evident in all of his interactions.

Kristen Darby, DIALEXA

I had the pleasure of working with Michele Anderson on several projects, and I am continually impressed by her exceptional talent and dedication. Michele’s creativity and innovative approach consistently lead to outstanding results, making her an invaluable asset to any team.

She brings a critical thought and mindset to help drive solutions, while being able to get her hands dirty and get in and do the work. Has a great eye and feel for design and easily incorporates what’s effective and can move quickly. She’s able to adapt to many verticals and continues to stay up on the applications needed as the market changes. She’s fearless in learning new processes and software.

Also, she is very easy to work with, affable, and always positive in her approach. I highly recommend her for work!

Michael Ciardiello, J & J— Johnson & Johnson

I worked with Chalva, the Chief Marketing Officer of Avnetri (formerly etouches) as the facilitator and master of ceremonies for a ‘customer innovation council’ event in New York city recently. The attendees were senior executives from many of the company’s top global clients. Chalva was responsible for the company rebrand and name change which was shared with the audience. It was therefore an important meeting designed to share ideas and the innovative technologies the company was planning to roll out in the next 18 months.

The fact that the audience were so engaged with the brand story, and his pre-production briefing so clear and thorough, made my role that much easier. Chalva is a real professional. And a joy to work with.

Roy Sheppard, BBC TV & Radio Presenter/Reporter

Michele is an amazing, talented and committed graphic designer. I’ve had the opportunity of partnering with her on multiple thought leadership marketing deliverables for Cognizant, since 2016. Michele has always come up with innovative, compelling designs keeping in mind brand guidelines. She was our lead designer on a weekly blog series and she excelled at it. She’s a fast learner, reliable and delivers work on time, which was always a key requirement at Cognizant. Her expertise, dedication and collaborative attitude have made our projects together highly successful and well appreciated. Michele has always been my go-to designer for all graphic requirements and would be a true asset to any organization. I highly recommend Michele — she’s a star!

Sagarika Kamath, Cognizant Technologies

I had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Chalva during his tenure at Infinity Info Systems as VP of Marketing. Over his two years with the company, he provided strategic direction and concrete actions in building an integrated marketing program. His insight around brand, inbound marketing and driving successful publisher relationships helped steer our team to a new era in our marketing approach. He stays attuned to marketing trends and uses that knowledge to challenge the status quo and drive change.

Kathy Cochran, Infinity Info Systems

I have worked with Michele Anderson during my last two positions as Chief Marketing Officer of high profile technology companies, and found her to be one of the most creative designers I have ever had the pleasure to work with. Michele always comes up with smart, compelling design and communications solutions that are strongly grounded in marketing and brand strategy. Her work really is impeccable. Michele is also easy and fun to work with, totally reliable, and she delivers the work fast and on time, which is very important in this rapidly moving business environment. I would wholeheartedly recommend Michele for the most challenging creative director and marketing communications roles. She is first rate in every way!

Patrick U. Di Chiro, CMO, EMpiRx Health

Chalva has an excellent track record as a marketing professional at Accenture and led the marketing efforts of Accenture’s global delivery network expansion into a number of different countries worldwide over the last 7 years. He was also very involved in forging strong relationships with a number of senior industry analysts that covered Accenture in the global delivery and outsourcing sector. He has always been able to clearly articulate Accenture’s key messages and differentiation in this important space vis a vis the competition. Over the years he has hosted a number of analysts in different global locations so they could get a first hand look at our operations, meet and be briefed by some of our senior leaders and interact with the client project teams. He is very astute and strategic in his thinking and brought very strong market insights into our overall Industry analyst program. I have worked closely with Chalva for more than 5 years.

Allen Valahu, Accenture

For nearly 910 years, Michele has been an integral part of our day-to-day team at RSi. She’s never been one to shy away from a creative challenge and is “all in” for her clients, showcasing focus, speed and next level execution for every project. From instances where we had little vision to those where we knew exactly what we wanted, Michele has repeatedly delivered. Web design, logos, booths, infographics, sell sheets, PPTs…she’s done it all and more for us over the years. She adapts to the speed of business, never thrown off by a last minute change or a total upheaval in branding. She consistently takes these moments in stride and always exceeds expectations. Michele has a heart of gold behind her determined “we go this!” attitude, making even the toughest projects and timelines seem more than achievable. Because of all of this and so much more, Michele would be an absolute asset to any organization, and I could not recommend her more highly.

Caitlyn Bordeux Graber, Marketing Director, Circana
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