Our Team

Jerry Suhrstedt | Senior Marketing Strategist

Jerry is our Senior Marketing Strategist at Heavy Guerrilla, a northwest advertising & marketing agency.

Before starting Heavy Guerrilla, Jerry was founder of Heavy Skate Wheels, a Tacoma based inline roller skate manufacturer, which was acquired in 1997 by public First Team Sports. Jerry also founded Stanbrooke Custom Homes, a Tacoma residential custom home construction company. Stanbrooke was ranked 6th place for 2006 by the Puget Sound Business Journal’s – Washington’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies. As the founder of the Tacoma Speedskating Club, Jerry coached Apolo Ohno during the first two years of his ice speedskating career.

Don Warner | Marketing Consultant – Olympia, Tacoma Market

Serving clients in the Los Angeles, Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia markets for over 20 years, Don has a proven ability to understand a client’s business and help them get what they need to succeed.

Representing Allied Van Lines, Mayflower Transit, and Wheaton Worldwide Moving, he developed lead sources and account management plans that resulted in new business,  increased market share, and long-term clients.  He has worked with a variety of clients on business projects including; Farmers Insurance, Delta Dental, The Boeing Company, AeA (formerly American Electronics Association), TBWA\Chiat\Day, Spelling Entertainment, TEAC America, Rand Corporation, Maguire Thomas Partners, Tokyo Express, Nissin International, Titan Global Distribution, Washington Department of Health, Office of the Attorney General, University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, Pierce College, Red Wind Casino, Providence Health, several State of Washington agencies and boards, and many law, accounting, consulting, engineering, and professional firms.

In his current position he applies his sales, marketing, and project management experience to connect businesses with Heavy Guerrilla’s revolutionary growth strategies. Don has a reputation with both clients and our staff for being dependable, practical,  flexible, and positive.  He looks for good companies that want to grow in the technology, manufacturing, services, logistics, and medical sectors.

When not working for his clients, Don can be found cheering on the Seahawks, Sounders, and Mariners or attempting his latest do-it-yourself project.

Serving clients in the Northwest for over 8 years, Wendy connects with her client’s and knows how to find that unique difference that really grows companies.  Wendy cut her organizational teeth working for the State of Washington over seeing a large annual budget in the health department.  She also has owned and operated her own business.

In her current position she applies her sales and marketing experience to help organizations with Heavy Guerrilla’s revolutionary growth strategies. When not working with clients, Wendy can be found spending time with her family and the occasional social gathering.

Daren Riggs | Marketing Consultant – South King, East Pierce Market

Daren brings a wealth of experience in sales and customer service with a high-tech focus to the Heavy Guerrilla team.  He studied advertising and psychology at the University of Washington before earning his B.A. degree from the University of Iowa where he was recognized for his academic achievements.  A Puyallup native, Daren will utilize his sales skills and experience to expand Heavy Guerrilla’s clientele in the South Sound area.  Outside of work, Daren likes to stay active with fun runs, soccer, inline skating and snowboarding.

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DeAnna Dailey | Web Development, Graphic Design

DeAnna Dailey brings a wide range of experience to the team with a background in Technical Writing, E-Commerce startups, HTML/CSS coding, and Graphic Design. She has worked with such diverse companies as skateboarding companies, niche publishing houses, dairy producers, and wilderness education schools. She believes passionately in the idea of the “internet as dialogue” and believes that if you want to create a successful business in today’s market, you need to give your customers a way to feel heard as well as a way to communicate in a real voice, not the voice of “business speak”.

In her current position with Heavy Guerrilla, she applies this breadth of experience to supporting the personalized marketing plan that will work for each individual company and their customers. In a typical day, she might be optimizing your site’s keywords, creating or proofreading new content for your social media platforms, re-coding the underlying code of your site to help it conform to SEO standards, or creating a line of branded collateral based on your logo.

When not working with Heavy Guerrilla, DeAnna can be found running around in the woods of the Pacific Northwest with her Border Collie dog, spinning yarns (both literal and figurative), and running nature education programs.

Monica Jonen | Marketing Admin Support

Serving clients in the Los Angeles, Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia markets for over 20 years, Monica has a proven ability to understand a client’s business and help them get what they need to succeed.

Thubten Comerford | Social Media Partner | Social Potency

Thubten grew up in Malibu, California in the 1970s surrounded by 
celebrities. His classmates included Charlie Sheen, Chris Penn, Rob
Lowe, Dean Cain, Robert Downy, Jr., Holly Robinson Peete and Griffin 
O’Neal.  He once wanted to become a movie star, just as his classmates 
were, but eventually decided to leave LA “at the top of his career,”
following his appearance in a scene with Ken Olin on the TV show
 Thirty Something in May of 1990. Thubten knew that Silicon Valley held
 the keys to his future.

After arriving in the promised land, Thubten worked in marketing at 
Apple Computer and later at Mac World Magazine. After catching the 
internet wave in 1995 Thubten supported Macintosh users for Netcom (an 
early ISP), then moved on to serve as a postmaster for AOL. In 1998
 Thubten founded a network engineering firm in San Jose, Samaya Inc., 
and after securing a contract with the Thai government, opened an
 office in Bangkok.

With over 70,000 followers on Twitter, Thubten is building his social media consultancy, Social Potency, which has been his full-time “job” since moving to Portland. He’s also been 
contributing his social media and marketing expertise to two technology  startup
 companies, Business 3.0 and CluePad. Keeping up with his blogging can 
be a challenge, too, but he loves it.  He has two Meetup groups in 
Portland, one for entrepreneurs called Startup Founders, and a Twitter
 group called PDX TUG (Portland Twitter Users Group). He also volunteers
 as a facilitator and mentor for @StartupWeekend events around the 
country.