Moonshot

STRATEGIC MARKETING + COMMUNICATIONS

Collaborating with diverse and project teams to shape marketing and communication strategies, leading to the successful launch of 110+ startups, generating thousands of pieces of earned media worth millions of dollars in advertising equivalent.

AWARD WINNING BRAND DEVELOPMENT + MANAGEMENT

Crafting breakthrough categories and strategic narratives, enhancing brand positioning, culminating in prestigious client awards, including "Best State Court Research and Analytics Platform 2023," "Fast Company Innovative By Design 2021,"  and " Central Banking Finnovator of the Year Award 2021".

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS + THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Devising and implemented marketing and comms plans with project leads, coordinating w/ subject matter experts to drive national and industry-specific media messaging. Successfully prepared an executive client for testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services and Task Force on Financial Technology.

Orchestrating speaker and influencer programs featuring high-profile figures such as Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan.

CREATIVE CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT

Utilizing a range of storytelling mediums (short-form video, image carousels, social audio events, podcasting, and online courses) to engage key audiences and convey compelling project narratives.


Staying ahead of digital and traditional marketing trends, executing integrated marketing initiatives like a street marketing campaign at SXSW involving a 10-person team, and art directing out-of-home advertisements in Times Sq.

Proactively exploring new technologies and trends, venturing into diverse fields such as remote sensing, hyper spectral imaging, agricultural water rights management, and legaltech.

EVENTS AND INFLUENCER PROGRAMS

Masterminding notable events, including the private hedge fund investor summit Compound:Thesis, and a high-profile launch event for 300+ Atrium stakeholders, raising over $35,000 in event sponsorship.

Founder | Global Director of Marketing and Public Relations

First Round Fast Track

Working 1:1 with First Round network founders to identify opportunities to share their stories and build personal and professional brands that deliver on business objectives such as fundraising, recruiting and customer development. First Round Fast Track mentors meet bi-weekly for 12 weeks per cohort.

Mentor - Public Relations 

Alchemist Accelerator

Founder pitch practice, message crafting and PR roundtables with leading technology industry reporters from The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch.

Mentor - Public Relations

StartX.

Empowered early-stage startups with strategic insight into marcomms, effectively positioning their unique stories to reach key audiences, including mainstream media, and key stakeholders. Leveraging my 10+ years of experience in PR, marketing, and branding, I've developed and implemented repeatable frameworks spanning content, social media, and events to elevate early stage founders and teams. My deep understanding of the innovation ecosystem and climate sustainability has resulted in notable brand growth and industry awareness for StartX companies.

500 Startups

Supporting multiple cohorts of portfolio companies with public relations training and hands-on growth communications and go-to-market mentorship  with global early stage founders from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, Nigeria Poland Mexico, South Korea, etc.

Mentor - Marketing and Communications 

SparkPR

Senior Communications Manager

Cleantech Law Partners

VP Business Development

Google

Intern, Google News

Viacom

Marketing Intern - MTV

Strategic storyteller and publicist driving scalable marketing outcomes for Silicon Valley executives and brands. I craft category-defining narratives that have helped companies raise $1.5 billion in new investment

Every great company is actually a social movement.

Bring me a highly-technical founder with a muddy storyline, and I will deliver a movement leader with a sparkling new narrative that dominates headlines, and drives business results. 

I’m a media storyteller, community-builder, and thought partner to high-performing executives, investors and visionary founders. 

Together we activate audiences to tackle humanity’s most pressing challenges with ingenuity, passion and deep expertise.  

Everyone says they’re result-driven, but over the past decade I’ve consistently transformed high-growth technology founders into category leaders, launching more than 80 startups that have earned thousands of media features. 

Collectively my clients have raised more than $1.5 billion from the top venture capital funds and private equity groups. 

Leveraging my extensive network of investors, operators and media, I curate unforgettable events that lead to strategic relationships and unlock opportunities that propel my clients to the head of the line. 

I don’t win awards, but my clients do. 

Whether it's being recognized as a Fast Company Most Innovative Company, Central Banking Magazine’s Finnovator of the Year, or receiving the Core77 Design Sustainability Award, the founders I support stand out among their peers year after year.

After 14 years in the heart of Silicon Valley, I remain fired up about technologies that tackle humanity’s greatest challenges, including food security, global warming, and how the rise of artificial intelligence will impact small business owners, knowledge workers, creative professionals and educators.

When I’m not working you can find me coaching my son’s soccer team, nerding out about all things Arsenal Football Club, or exploring San Francisco’s bounty of mysterious nooks and crannies on two legs. 

I’m a lover of spicy food, black coffee and true crime documentaries. 

Lifetime learner.

I only work with clients I know I can help. 

Reach me at: chikodi@moonshotpr.com

Chikodi Chima

Heliospace

Advisor, Investor Relations and Marketing

Camp Earnest

Welcome to Camp Earnest, a former summer camp in the mountains of northern California near Yosemite National Park. Visit us to relax your mind, open your heart, move your body, fill your belly and enjoy nature.

Camp Earnest is a retreat center near the towns of Twain Harte and Sonora, just two and a half hours (140 miles) east of San Francisco. We're at 3,500 feet of elevation in a ponderosa pine, cedar and manzanita forest with light snow in the winter and mild summers. 

Our 21 acres include a rental house, four cabins, a dozen seasonal bell tents, dining lodge, bathhouse with a sauna and cedar hot tub, a small outdoor amphitheater and a meditation and movement hall. Enjoy our fire pits and circles, or follow Stair Trail down to the spring fed Turnback Creek with a walking paths and a rock labyrinth.

Camp Earnest hosts company and organizational off-sites and retreats.  During our events, we feature chef prepared farm to table feasts and a wide range of activities and outings. We bring Good People together, produce and host facilitated conversations, programs and workshops that ground us in our shared humanity and hopes for an inspiring future.

Typical groups are around 30 guests and we've hosted up to 100 guests on occasion.  In addition to our cabins, yurts and tents, we can arrange lodging through our friends and partners nearby for larger groups.

Co-Founder

Assisting technology driven impact oriented startups achieve liftoff. Former and current clients include Eqogo, Zymmo, Talgo, Lohika, AH Global, Better Humans, New Age Meats, Dispatch Labs, Artkick and more.

We work together on funding, core branding, marketing, sales and go to market strategy.  I'll help you define your ethics, your vision and answer vital questions on your way to launch and market traction.

Startup Advisor

Good People Dinners

"Take time to build relationships, and you will be rewarded with experiences you could never pay for." 

- Jon-Paul Bowles

Most of the enjoyment we experience over a communal meal is mostly about the quality of companionship and conversations. Good People is about inspiration, community and friendships.  

We consider Good People to be our best selves, when we rise above tribalism and explore big ideas.  

Here, we talk about things that matter, share opinions, insights. We're vulnerable, do our best to leave our agendas at the door and participate in the most enjoyable kind of community, laughing over wonderful food and drink.  

-   We foster community, trust and friendships through food, drink and conversation.
-   We're building a world denser with networks of trust and friendship.
-   Civility, mutual respect, humor and love of deep discussion.  

WHAT TO EXPECT

Thinking of attending one of our dinners? These are ticketed events, usually $85 per person, inclusive of a huge family style feast, wine and other drinks. They are informal and unpretentious, hosted mostly in private homes, for about forty people. Corporate sponsored series are free, but attendance must be approved in advance.

6:00 to 6:45 – Cocktail hour. Hors d’ouevres are served.
6:45 to 7:10 – Organizer introduces the Good People community and principles, then a speaker who offers a 10 to 15 minutes story, concluding with a question for attendees to discuss over dinner.
7:10 to 7:20 – Organizer introduces a professional chef.  S/he talks about their menu, highlighting seasonal, local and organic ingredients. Main courses and side dishes are offered family style.  Guests plate themselves, passing large dishes around.  
8:30 – Chef offers up dessert and tea or coffee. Organizer moderates a popcorn conversation.

Chefs have included Brian Bligh of Chez Panisse, Hiroo Nagahara of Bao Hiroo, Ola Fendert of Oola and Anthony Yang fresh from stints at French Laundry, Per Se and Michael Mina.

Founder

Dispatch Labs

Dispatch Labs is building the world's first business ready blockchain.  
www.dispatchlabs.io

Founding Partner 

The Bureau

A blockchain investment fund, incubator and growth accelerator.

CCO & Partner

Artkick

Artkick brings the digital revolution to the world of images and art. It transforms millions of internet connected TVs into large interactive picture frames. An unlimited selection of images, appealing to a broad range of tastes and interests, becomes available with a simple click or swipe on a controlling mobile device.

VP of Customer Engagement

Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern

Branding, marketing and sales, artist relationship management.

Owner, Co-Founder

Everyone deserves a life of purpose, learning and exploration. 

www.ramanfrey.com

For the last 24 years, I've built companies and communities in the Bay Area, bringing people together around meaningful conversations about art, technology, religion, politics and philosophy.  I've started a variety of businesses and served on the boards of several organizations.

In 2012 I founded Good People Dinners, a Bay Area community that fosters substantive discussions, usually over food and drink.  These dinners, corporate salons, overnights and retreats bring together professional chefs and speakers on a wide range of topics.  GP Dinners has  produced over 700 events and counting.  

In the fall of 2020, with my partner Karin Johnson, we purchased a former summer camp in the mountains near Yosemite National Park. Camp Earnest's 21 acres include a rental house, several cabins, two yurts, two three season bell tents, two cottages, dining lodge, a bathhouse with a Finnish sauna and a cedar hot tub, an outdoor amphitheater, a year round creek and meadow and a meditation and movement hall. We run an art program of outdoor murals and sculptures that so far includes Asad Faulwell, Ema Harris-Sintamarian and Dario Antonioni.

https://www.campearnest.com

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