Our Team

Beth Weesner, Founder & CEO

Over the past ten years, Ms. Weesner has established herself as a thought leader and visionary in the emerging field of marketing automation.  She is the Founder and CEO of Marketing Transformation Services (MTS), a strategic consultancy dedicated to transforming Global 2000 marketing organizations.  Her clients have utilized her organization as a trusted advisor to achieve differentiated business success. 

She has held leadership roles in the Direct Marketing Association (The DMA) and was the founder and chair of the Marketing Operations Management Symposium.  Prior to founding MTS, she held senior positions at Aprimo and Unica, the two leaders in the marketing technology space.  She was a significant force in the emergence of marketing resource management (MRM) as a defacto standard at marketing operations functions around the world.

Beth sits on the board of directors for the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University (SDSU).  She also has board positions with several international philanthropic organizations.

Some of Ms. Weesner’s specific accomplishments include:

  • Defining a course for the early stage development of MRM to automate core operational processes of marketing.
  • Establishing relationships with  HP, Intel, eBay, IBM, Nortel, REI, HSBC, Adobe, Symantec, Rubbermaid, Intuit and Google.
  • Holding leadership roles at industry leaders, Aprimo and Unica.  At Unica, she led a core group that created Unica Plan.
  • Serving as an industry thought leader through speaking, writing, and blogging.
  • Building a network of technology partners including companies such as Aprimo, Unica, Siebel, Oracle, Alterian, and Adobe.

Kyla Gundersen, Consultant

Kyla, an MTS Founding Partner,has held multiple senior-level consulting, marketing and sales positions during her 15-year career. She has a successful track record helping clients fully realize, organize and utilize their intenal and external resources to develop executable marketing and technology initiatives. Kyla has experience leading global marketing automation projects in the high tech arena.

Her professional career includes expertise in sales and marketing alignment, marketing automation technology optimization, social media strategies, database optimization and analytics and consumer insights advisory.

Kyla believes the best client relationships grow over time and are comprised of each team's willingness to create effective change, learn from successes and failures and ultimately dig deep to understand challenges that exist and quickly and thoughtfully develop and implement solutions.

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Sophie O’Neal, Consultant

Sophie O'Neal is a Senior Business Analyst who helps organizations maximize their strategic investment in marketing automation. Her consulting expertise includes defining business requirements for system implementation and expansion, determining optimal business structures and processes, conducting vendor evaluation and selection, and guiding organizations through change, helping clients turn transition into a force for innovation and success. As principal since 1995 of San Francisco based consulting firm Synergy Business Solutions, Sophie brings an entrepreneurial approach to large-scale decisions, systems, and processes.

Sophie’s client relationships span the private, public, and non-profit sectors, including Wells Fargo Bank, Move Inc., GeoVera Insurance, American Red Cross Bay Area, and the City and County of San Francisco. Previously Sophie was a marketing and management consultant specializing in high-tech business startups. She was manager of marketing services for Applied Graphics Technologies in NYC, where she led cross-functional teams in strategic analysis and planning efforts. She also has worked in the non-profit sector for The Children’s Aid Society and in advertising.

Sophie served on the Executive Planning Committee for The San Francisco Small Business and Entrepreneurial Forum, and chaired its Community Building and Involvement session. A fourth generation San Franciscan and ninth generation Californian, Sophie is proud to be an alumnus of Leadership San Francisco (LSF), is a member of LSF’s Board of Directors, and chairs its Website committee. Sophie holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Kaila Angello, Consultant

Kaila has expertise in project managment, internal and external communication, process development and change-management as related to marketing automation. She has worked with clients on defining success criteria, marketing automation platform vendor evaluation and selection, implementation of MA platforms and Global Program Framework development,designed to leverage platforms via customer-centric, solution-focused, globally consistent communications. Throughout her professional career, in an array of organizational settings - from high-tech to real estate and finance to non-profit - Kaila has facilitated decision-making and implementation of business goals through highly focused and personal service. Kaila's strengths lie in her ability to increase effective communication, reduce distractions and ultimately assist in the successful implementation of processes and executon of projects.

Kaila holds a B.A. in Technical Journalism - with emphases in Public Relations and Psychology, from Colorado State University. She completed additional course work at the University of Malta, and language studies in Tokyo, Japan.

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