Kathleen Ashmore

Kathleen Ashmore is a Digital Marketing Manager at Convergence. As a member of the Digital team, Kathleen helps run internal email/peer-to-peer list offerings, coordinates with external prospecting vendors, and monitors email and peer-to-peer deliverability. Kathleen emphasizes the importance of data driven decision making in order to increase fundraising efforts for all digital clients. Kathleen graduated from Wofford College with a degree in both Humanities and Spanish and lives in DC.
Highlights:
  • Ecommerce intern at SCOUT bags where she analyzed the retail website daily and worked with the e-comm platform Magento
  • Marketing intern at the Hughes Agency in Greenville, SC where she learned all things behind PR, marketing, tracking data, and graphic design
  • Interned with US Congressman Trey Gowdy in the Greenville, SC office where her communication skills as well as verbal and written skills were strengthened

Michelle Barrientos

Michelle Barrientos is a Client Strategy Manager at Convergence. As a member of the Digital team, Michelle assists with developing and executing strategic marketing campaigns. Michelle graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University with a degree in Public Relations and Political Science and currently lives in Arlington, VA
Highlights:
  • Interned on the DeSantis for Governor Campaign
  • Digital Marketing Intern for Harris Media

Michael Bonilla

Michael Bonilla is a Client Strategy Manager at Convergence. As a member of the Digital team, Michael works to drive engagement for clients by employing various marketing and design strategies. Michael graduated from Boston College with a degree in Political Science and Film and currently lives in Alexandria, VA.
Highlights:
  • Interned in Convergence’s Production department
  • Interned in Rep. Joe Wilson’s (SC-02) congressional office, leading constituent tours of the U.S Capitol
  • Assisted in production of multiple documentaries focused on WWII Germany and Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be distributed in Europe through the Boston College Film Department

Austin Fiala

Austin Fiala is Senior Director of Digital Marketing at Convergence Media. Specializing in housefile fundraising, new donor acquisition, and voter engagement, Austin provides a data-driven approach to help our clients meet their fundraising and political needs. He graduated from the University of Mississippi with degrees in both Public Policy Leadership and French. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Highlights:
  • Managed strategy for all channels of the RNC’s Digital Fundraising program in 2021
  • Managed and executed nationwide peer-to-peer prospecting SMS for Donald J. Trump for President in 2020
  • Former Student Body Attorney General and member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of Mississippi

Mark Jennings

Mark Jennings is a Client Strategy Manager at Convergence Media. As a member of the Digital team, Mark assists in developing fundraising programs for various clients. He graduated from the University of Arizona and currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Highlights:
  • Served as 3rd Vice Chair of the Arizona LD9 Republican Party
  • Assisted with grassroots operations for Yvette Herrell’s successful 2020 campaign and served as her Staff Assistant in Congress
  • Assisted with grassroots operations in Northern Virginia for Glenn Youngkin’s successful campaign for governor in 2021

Liam O’Toole

Liam O’Toole is the CORE Director at Convergence. As a member of the Digital team, Liam supervises the full life cycle of all digital data from managing proper tracking and storage to building compelling visualizations and in-depth analyses. Liam designs and runs the Marketing Intelligence platform for the digital team, providing insights to make data-driven decisions. Before joining Convergence, Liam worked on the digital team at the RNC during the presidential election cycle.
Liam is a graduate of the University of Dallas and currently resides in Alexandria, VA.
Highlights:
  • Served as Senior Data Analyst on the RNC digital team during the 2020 Presidential campaign, overseeing reporting and analytics on the more than $1 billion raised during the cycle
  • Designed and implemented the RNC Marketing Intelligence platform driving analytics and marketing decisions

Sarah Mautino

Sarah Mautino is an Advertising Manager at Convergence. As a member of the Digital team, Sarah assists with developing and executing strategic marketing campaigns.
Sarah graduated from the University of Richmond with a degree in PPEL concentrating in Political Science and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Highlights:
  • Spent her senior year interning and assisting on local, gubernatorial, and senatorial races in Virginia
  • Interned at Data Trust working on their clients leads and development team
  • Interned at the Republican Party of Virginia assisting with the Trump Victory Campaign

Charles Barbour

Charles Barbour is the Managing Director of Production at Convergence. He started his career at Cartoon Network in Marketing and moved over to Production, creating award-winning ad campaigns for CN partners like LEGO, Kraft and Nintendo. Charles joined Convergence in June 2021 and discovered that politics and cartoons have much in common (at least from an ad perspective). Diving right in as a Writer, Producer, Director, and Drone Operator, he has executed over a hundred ads for various candidates, campaign committees, SuperPACs and corporate clients.
Charles is from Houston, Texas. He graduated from Washington and Lee University, where he met his wife, Emily. They live in Atlanta with their son, Charlie, and daughter, Mary Benson.
Highlights:
  • American Business 2021 Awards: Gold Stevie for Cartoon Network – “Stop Bullying: Speak Up”
  • Campaigns & Elections 2022 Reed Awards: Best Online Video – 30 Seconds or Under (Republican) – “Publicity Stunt”

Jesse Stokes

Jesse Stokes is a Digital Content Director at Convergence. As a member of the Digital team, Jesse manages client expectations, develops messaging, and tracks client fundraising initiatives day-to-day.
Jesse graduated from The University of South Florida with a degree in Political Science and lives in Alexandria, VA.
Highlights:
  • Ran the communications and social media in the U.S. Representative Ross Spano’s re-elect campaign
  • Interned in the Congressional Office of U.S. Representative Ross Spano
  • Served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Oracle, The University of South Florida’s student-run newspaper

Remy Hart

Remy Hart is Vice President of Digital Marketing at Convergence, leading Convergence’s digital team and overseeing its clients’ online programs. Remy and her team architect and execute some of the most competitive digital operations in the marketplace, prioritizing creativity in combination with data-driven strategies to power their success.

Remy joined the Convergence team as its Managing Director of Digital Marketing in 2021, directing the team’s internal operations, systems and processes for team efficiency and growth.

Prior to joining Convergence, Remy led digital operations for some of the most competitive statewide, congressional, and local campaigns throughout the country. She has over a decade of expertise in developing and streamlining online political efforts to strategically cut through the noise and reach voters and donors where it counts.

Remy is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and two children.
Highlights:
  • Named a “Kentucky Colonel” after directing digital operations for Governor Bevin’s 2019 re-election campaign in Kentucky
  • Architected the digital program for Governor Rauner’s 2018 re-election campaign in Illinois
  • Directed digital on the re-election campaign of former U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (IL) the same year that her Chicago Cubs won the World Series