Management Team

Kathryn N. Marshall

Partner, Chief Operating Officer

As a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at 104 West Partners, Kathryn manages the agency and guides all business operations for the firm. She actively oversees the firm’s professional talent to ensure clients’ expectations are continuously exceeded and spends time counseling various clients on business and communications issues. 

Since joining 104 West Partners in 2004, Kathryn has helped grow the agency by more than 85 percent each year, transforming it from a start-up to a respected strategic communications firm. She has been instrumental in developing a client portfolio that has included some of the most recognizable entrepreneurs in business today such as Trip Hawkins (founder of Electronic Arts), Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and creator of Pong), Perry Evans (founder of MapQuest), Jeremy Jaech (founder of Visio and Aldus), and Brian Behlendorf (co-founder of the Apache Web Server).

Prior to joining 104 West Partners, Kathryn served as a Director of Public Relations for Metzger Associates, a high-tech public relations agency. As a member of the firm’s senior management team responsible for business development, she helped build a solid base of technology clients ranging from early-stage start-ups with innovative ideas to multi-billion dollar heavyweights that enabled Metzger Associates to win a place on the Inc. 500. At Metzger Associates, she developed a diverse set of communications programs for her clients that included both public relations and investor relations components. Many of her communications programs garnered top honors from the nationally acclaimed SABRE and PR Platinum awards, as well as the PRSA.

Before entering the field of public relations, Kathryn served as the Assistant Director of Operations at a Wall Street investment fund, Unicom Capital LLC, where she managed operations supporting the firm’s multimillion-dollar domestic and international trade accounts. Prior to Unicom Capital, Kathryn worked for Hanifen Imhoff, an investment banking firm.

Beyond her full-time job, Kathryn was elected to the Colorado March of Dimes Communications Committee in 2006 and spends a portion of her time raising awareness to help fight prematurity which today remains the leading killer of America's newborns. In February 2008, Kathryn was selected from a group of more than 1,000 volunteers and awarded Outstanding Denver Committee Member by the March of Dimes for her work to help increase awareness and support for prematurity education.

In addition, Kathryn is also an advocate for pediatric stroke and cerebral palsy children, and continues her decade-long work with animal welfare organizations such as the Humane Society of America and the Dumb Friends League.  

Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Representative Client Experience:
Advanced Software Technologies (acquired by Embarcadero), GE Access Distribution (acquired by Avnet), Blue Titan (acquired by SOA Software), CollabNet, Displaytech, etalk, Exabyte, GTRI, Local Matters, MCI WorldCom, MX Logic, Network Photonics, Plasmon, SchlumbergerSema, Sprint PCS and ViaWest.