Anne Corning, Principal
Anne has 20 years of experience managing marketing and business communication in a range of industries, including high tech, health care, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and consulting. This broad background allows her to quickly grasp the big picture issues involved with any project and formulate effective strategies and tactics. She helps her customers focus resources where they can have the greatest impact.
During her career, Ms. Corning has held corporate management roles and been a part of several successful entrepreneurial ventures. She has run dynamic B2B marketing and sales administration departments where she was responsible for strategy and execution of marketing communications, public relations, market research, proposal management, and contracting. Her history includes work with companies from start-ups to Fortune 50 firms.
As an experienced chief marketing officer and entrepreneur, she is adept at helping firms develop and refine their marketing and business plans, whether starting a company from scratch, entering a new market, or launching a new product line.
Ms. Corning applies her insight to quickly grasp clients’ business issues to develop and implement communication programs that help them grow and thrive. She has researched global economic markets and industries, and led project teams that consistently delivered results. She has proven performance in many strategically important client campaigns, for instance, she managed sales proposal production that attained a win rate of 74-86 percent. She has planned and implemented product launch campaigns including one for an Internet service that now reaches more than 3 million users. And she has written award-winning business plans that received millions of dollars of investment funding.
Ms. Corning is active in the Northwest entrepreneur community, serving as a judge at the University of Washington’s annual business plan competition since 2005. She earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Chicago, an MBA from the University of Washington Foster Business School with a specialty in marketing and entrepreneurship, and is certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt. She also served for three years on the Board of the Women Business Owners association of Western Washington as the Marketing Chair.
