AL EVANS

An experienced business development, online and traditional marketing strategist, Web-based software (SaaS) product manager and entrepreneur. Al is the President and Chief Consultant for The Core Element Group a boutique consultancy located in upstate New York's Tech Valley Region.

During his long-term involvement with online media, the Web and Internet, Al has worked with General Electric, SmithKline Beecham, Vice President Al Gore’s Reinventing Government Project (REGO), CBS Radio, the State University of New York and various Regional Hospitals, managing Web development and online marketing projects. From 1997 to 2007 he worked with the University at Albany’s Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology, which became the Center for Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE) and is a multi-billion dollar University, Government and Business mega-research center, now know as Albany Nanotech, to develop successful Internet initiatives and software applications.

At GE Fanuc, Al was a Software Product Manager for the CIMPLICITY Systems division where he managed all Web development, systems integration and online and electronic media marketing programs for this joint venture between GE and FANUC of Japan.

After graduating from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Al started as a Business Analyst with Dun & Bradstreet and later became the Director of Marketing for High Technology Systems (HTS) a local specialty materials start-up that commercialized NASA’s LARC-13 technology for industrial, electronics and aerospace applications.

Al was the Founder of Matrix Intermedia Corp., and responsible for developing one of the first Web-based content management systems, WebDirect, which is still powering numerous Websites around the New York's Capital Region today.