Meet the Verblions
Team Verblio serves 1,500 digital agencies and businesses every month from beautiful Denver, CO.
We’re freaking fantastic
Fourth year in a row!
The stuff that
matters to us
supporting great writers
Quality writing comes from happy, motivated writers. We ask for excellence and support their success. Our online writers' forum is an active community, and connection creates better content.
TECH + HUMANS
We’ve built a super-cool technology platform, but deeply personal content comes from humans. Beyond the binary code, team Verblio is a well rounded group of reasonably intelligent people.
Rah rah TEAM SPIRIT
Variety is the spice of team Verblio. We’re a supergroup of SEO-philes, content connoisseurs, designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Left brain & right brain, together = just-right brain.
Leadership Team
Steve Pockross
CEO
Favorite word Hootenanny
Hometown Denver, CO
Steve Pockross
Steve brings more than 20 years of startup, nonprofit, and Fortune 500 experience to his role as bon vivant of Verblio. He was part of the early management team at crowdsourcing pioneer LiveOps and previously led five SaaS and marketing businesses. Outside the office, Steve enjoys ultimate frisbee, telemark skiing, hosting jazz concerts, and spending time with his two boys. Steve hosts Verblio's Yes and Marketing podcast and stars in some truly strange video ads.
Greg Levow
COO & CTO
Favorite word Aardvark
Hometown New York, NY
Greg Levow
Hailing from the Empire State, Greg is Verblio's Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer. He's also extremely skilled at moving people into and out of zoom breakout rooms. Prior to joining Verblio, he founded an ag-tech startup that uses simulation modeling and weather data to help farmers optimize their fertilizer usage and improve yields, while reducing environmental impact. When he’s not solving hard problems that intersect business and technology, you’ll find Greg in front of a hot BBQ, cold drink in hand, cooking up something big.
Jason Sindler
CFO
Favorite word Shenanigans
Hometown Baltimore, MD
Jason Sindler
Jason is our resident spreadsheet ninja and currently ranked 28th Worldwide (and 5th in the US) in the Financial Modeling World Cup. He brings 20 years of financial experience to his role at Verblio, where he helps cull information from our data. Before that, Jason worked in corporate finance and consulted for startups, wineries, and even the PBR (Professional Bull Riders). When he's not on his laptop, Jason is a domestic first responder and can be found spending time with his family.
Zoe Treeson
VP, Operations
Favorite word Bedraggled
Hometown Albuquerque, NM
Zoe Treeson
As senior director of operations, Zoe draws on her background in business and film production to help Verblio customers tell their stories. Outside of the office, Zoe does all the (Boulder) things—hiking, cycling, running. Only her complete disinterest in snow sports differentiates her from your average Boulderite. Yet somehow, we’ve found it in our hearts to forgive her.
Brad Kemp
SVP, Business Development
Favorite word Arugula
Hometown Port Huron, MI
Brad Kemp
Brad loves pizza, but not pineapple on pizza. When he’s not leading enterprise sales efforts, you'll find him achieving the perfect Neapolitan-style pizza crust. Spontaneous and rarely bored, he also excels at 90s music trivia. Before Verblio, Brad spent most of his career building and leading sales teams, most recently launching and growing a platform that makes it easy for Fortune 1000 companies to find video production freelancers.
Paul Zalewski
SVP, Marketing
Favorite word Yup
Hometown St. Louis, MO
Paul Zalewski
Paul runs marketing at Verblio and is a self-proclaimed digital marketing and SEO nerd. (Checking Google Analytics is his favorite form of procrastination). Although digitally savvy, Paul has a rare genetic defect that makes him incapable of understanding memes. His prerequisite I-live-in-Colorado activity is snowboarding, and his prerequisite millennial drink of choice is bulletproof coffee. Verblio colleagues do not approve of his favorite word.
The gang’s
all here
Verblio Yearbook
Marketing
Most likely to make unfounded claims on the internet
Megan Skalbeck
Head of AI Projects
Favorite word Pandemonium
Hometown Spirit Lake, IA
Megan loves denim on denim, energy drinks that make your face tingle, the ocean, and also the desert. Her role at Verblio is a smorgasbord of high-value efforts ranging from podcast production to writer marketing to a lengthy sojourn involving Quality. She rejects the cat/dog binary. She also has a life outside the office that involves a saxophone, a skateboard, and last-minute 20-hour road trips.
Brittnee Spears
Senior Marketing Manager
Favorite word Sesh
Hometown St. Louis, MO
Brittnee is an adventure seeking mountain lover. As Verblio's marketing manager, she runs a tight ship, so beware. Outside the office, you will find her doing all the quintessential Colorado activities. Yes– she’s that crazy Colorado person you will find hiking 14ers, rock climbing, and tent camping with her husband and their small child in tow.
Product & Engineering
Most likely to have “make a to-do list” on their to-do list
Jo Hutchison
Senior UI/UX Designer
Favorite word Sonder
Hometown Dallas, TX
Hailing from sunny Austin, TX, Jo is enthusiastic about pretty colors, user empathy, and organized thinking. When she’s not obsessing over finding the perfect shade of gray, she’s usually either inventing a recipe, binge-reading sci-fi/fantasy novels, or exploring all of the nerdy LARPing bars that Austin has to offer.
Customer Success
Most likely to Succeed
ALEXA BARAY
Director of Enterprise Ops
Favorite word Tsundoku
Hometown Coral Springs, FL
Alexa is a trilingual bibliophile with a severe case of nerdiness. She started as a Verblio writer, rose to account manager, and finally coerced worked her way into the operations team,now managing our Enterprise Customer Success team from her home office in Florida. When she’s not spamming Slack with pictures of her husky, you’ll find Alexa playing video games, boating, re-reading Harry Potter, or singing showtunes.
Sarah Schenkkan
Enterprise Operations Manager
Favorite word Tandsmør
Hometown Seattle, WA
A proud multi-hyphenate, Sarah brings her background as an interdisciplinary performer, writer, and scrappy community builder to the Enterprise team. When she’s not captivating clients on Zoom, you can find her plotting future trips, poring over her vintage cookbook collection (jellied chicken, anyone?), and adventuring to the best food spots the five boroughs have to offer. Ask her for a rec!
Nat Larson
Enterprise Customer Success Manager
Favorite word Behoove
Hometown Vashon, WA
Hailing from a picturesque island in Puget Sound, Nat is the hyper-competent, delightfully quirky, process-obsessed puzzle piece our Ops team was missing. When he’s not helping customers succeed or improving processes (and moods) around the office, you’ll find Nat playing board games, video games, or roleplaying games with friends.
Marketplace Operations
Most likely to have been a writer in a past life
Josh Duvauchelle
Director of Marketplace Ops
Favorite word Chill
Hometown Poipu, HI
Born and raised in Hawaii,Josh spent years as a magazine journalist and digital media writer, so his love for Verblio's writer community runs deep. Josh loves to nerd out over data, analytics, and optimizing processes. When he isn't strategically combining his passions at the office, you'll find Josh chasing his three kids: A son, a daughter, and a French bulldog.
Jill Tyburski
Enterprise Writer Ops Manager
Favorite word Buttermilk
Hometown Rochester, NY
Jill began as a freelance content writer for Verblio and quickly became passionate about SEO, contextual links, and Verblio’s quirky culture. Now, she uses her empathetic writer perspective to provide our writers with the resources they need to succeed, while also helping our enterprise customers receive high-quality content. Jill can proudly solve a Rubik’s cube, ski her first Breckenridge blue as a new Denver resident, and roast vegetables to perfection.
Verblio
values
Curiosity, creativity, and humor
Clear and respectful communication
Quirkiness and scrappiness
Bold and fearless action
Listen and assume good intent
Our
commitment
We are committed to being the friendliest, easiest-to-use content creation platform in the business. We believe in the value of content as a powerful tool to drive sales and build relationships for our customers. The goal is to deliver quality content and a fantastic experience, so customers feel ease and enjoyment when they use Verblio.