Leadership Team

Our leaders are tech-savvy, idea-driven innovators with a deep understanding of every facet of the customer experience

Paula George Tompkins

CEO & Founder

Paula Tompkins is a strategic visionary with a deep understanding of marketing and technology. Her 30-plus-year career encompasses the full spectrum of marketing, from direct mail and call centers to multi-channel and omnichannel experiences. She is an authority on leveraging digital touch points to drive store traffic. An inventor, Tompkins holds two U.S. patents for ChannelNet’s SiteBuilder™ software technology.

She started her career as a commercial banker in 1974 with a stint on Wall Street at the Bank of New York. Abandoning Wall Street in 1975, she went on to break gender barriers at both 3M and General Electric (GE) industrial sales division ... More

Favorite Quote:

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward toward the technology—Not the other way around.”
– Steve Jobs

Best Part of Her Job:

“Being a change agent for my customers over the years and consistently getting results!”

Secret Super Power:

I can see into the future, and it includes personalization!

Chris Sims

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer, Chris Sims, oversees research, development and technology trends so that ChannelNet’s patented platform, Sitebuilder™, remains at the forefront. He constantly seeks ways to exploit data and incorporate new technologies to achieve the results customers are seeking.

Chris is also responsible for working with clients and their technical staff on integrations, system goals and planning. His technical experience covers software architecture and design patterns for web-based and mobile software technology, web API, mobile applications and responsive web design. He is also well versed in the Scrum Framework ... More

Favorite Quote:

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
– Stephen Hawking

Best Part of His Job:

“Working with a team of the best and brightest in the industry to help push the cutting edge a bit farther every time.”

Secret Super Power:

I am really a robot!

Molly Smith

Vice President of Operations

As Vice President of Operations Molly Smith is responsible for all clients and their channel partners’ program successes and support as well as our project management office (PMO) and resource management. She works to strengthen our solutions delivery and to ensure that our growing list of client solutions are completed successfully and get the results our clients need.

Molly sets the vision for the PMO and aligns the end-to-end processes with ChannelNet’s resources. Her goal is to position our clients and ChannelNet for continued long-term growth ... More

Favorite Quote:

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin

Best Part of Her Job:

“I’m lucky to work with some of the most intelligent, passionate, and likeable human beings around.”

Secret Super Power:

Finding the good in everything.

Joe Karle

Vice President of Sales & Account Management

Joe Karle, Vice President of Sales and Account Management, is responsible for the leadership and success of ChannelNet’s overall business development including establishing and managing client relationships, strategic account planning and the overall success of our digital solutions.

He has more than 25 years of digital marketing experience. During the course of his career, he has managed digital marketing campaigns for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) digital initiatives. To his credit, he has executed brand strategy, strategic planning, sales and digital marketing in the automotive, financial, hospitality, retail ... More

Favorite Quote:

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right.”
– Henry Ford

Best Part of His Job

“Establishing and strengthening trust and subsequently building long-lasting relationships with clients across disciplines and industries.”

Secret Super Power:

Guitar Hero

Tim Cory

Creative Director

Timothy Cory, a creative director driving strategy using data insights to deliver marketing solutions, finding unique ideas that solve a business problem to meet objectives. Passionate in executing the grand vision of “In the Moment” customer-centric experiences where every place is the right place and every time the right time to have a personalized brand conversation.

He has more than 30 years of marketing and advertising experience. With a strong background and expertise in shopper marketing, brand identity, and broadcast focusing on the intersection be ... More

Favorite Quote:

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, than to take rank with those poor timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

Best Part of His Job:

Helping consumers and clients to find a loyal relationship that is beneficial to both.

Secret Super Power:

Need only 4-5 Hours of Sleep

David Indish

Director of Client Services

David Indish, Director of Client Services, oversees ChannelNet’s eBusiness Support Center (eBSC), which is responsible for providing technical and content support for all of ChannelNet’s clients and customers. The eBSC is also responsible for onboarding new clients and project-based content implementations for existing clients. To this end, David and the eBSC work closely with ChannelNet’s Development, Creative, Project Management, and Quality Assurance departments to ensure projects are completed on time and with the highest level of quality.

In addition to managing the eBSC, David interfaces with clients, provides virtual an in-person tr ... More

Favorite Quote:

“All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.”
William of Ockham

Best Part of His Job:

Constantly learning in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Secret Super Power:

Consumes oxygen and releases carbon dioxide.