As President and CEO of Hacker Group, Spyro Kourtis oversees all strategic planning and day-to-day operations of the agency. He brings more than 20 years of direct marketing experience to the position and has used this expertise to leverage the agency's new business development and account planning efforts. Over the years, he has secured and managed relationships with a significant number of Fortune 500 clients, including VISA, AT&T, Carnival, Kawasaki, Chipotle, Kaiser Permanente, Expedia, Hilton Hotels, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, MSN, Comcast and Oracle. He also is publisher of LEAD: Performance Marketing Insight, writes a monthly column for the Puget Sound Business Journal, and is a regular contributor for Ad Age, DM News, Adweek, The Madison Avenue Journal, Brandweek, and other marketing publications. He is the founder of the Green Marketing Coalition.