Planning your 2023 Comms Strategy

Jennifer Hammers is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Issuer Direct Corp. She joined Issuer Direct in May of 2021 and has brought her 20 years of outstanding experience and know-how to the company as an insightful and creative leader of the sales and marketing teams. Throughout her career, she has taught countless sales professionals and corporate communicators how to successfully execute the fine art of storytelling and brand messaging. Her expertise in project management, creative direction, inside and outside B2B sales leadership, employee coaching/development, and aggressive growth planning has served her well in her current role.

Brian Balbirnie is a member of the board and president and CEO of Issuer Direct. He established Issuer Direct in 2006 with a vision of creating a technology driven back-office compliance platform that would reduce costs as well as increase the efficiencies of the most complex tasks; today the company calls it Platform id. Balbirnie is responsible for the strategic leadership of the company and oversees day-to-day operations. Under his direction, the company has grown and worked with more than 6,000 customers in 2020. Balbirnie is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in emerging industries.

Jon Minnick is the special projects manager at Ragan Communications. He develops and oversees critical in-person and virtual conference programming, awards events, webinars and workshops for Ragan's vast audience of internal and external communicators, wellness professionals and human resources specialists. With nearly 20 years of experience in B2B media, he has consistently taken on the industry's new challenges to grow brands, successfully ensuring their long-term strength and profitability.