About Red FanIcon

Red Fan is a senior, full-service team of advisers, brand strategists, media relations professionals, content writers and domain experts who come together to drive value for B2B tech brands.

With over 30 years of experience transforming complex technologies into compelling stories, Kathleen helps B2B tech companies clarify their narrative, secure funding, and achieve strategic growth objectives.

Kathleen Lucente
CEO and Founder

$2.5B

Guided high-growth tech companies through more than $2.5 billion in M&A, IPO and SPAC transactions.

Emma’s passion for communications, technology expertise and B2B strategy across every major Red Fan vertical and service has laid the foundation for Red Fan’s growth into one of Austin’s leading strategic communications firms.

Emma Chase
Director of Client Services

With nearly a decade at Red Fan Communications, Matt has contributed to multiple award-winning campaigns, including comprehensive rebrands, successful go-to-market launches and integrated marketing initiatives. As a senior strategist, he functions as an extension of his clients’ executive teams, bringing deep expertise in brand strategy.

Matt Beezley
Senior Strategist

$100M+

Announced hundreds of millions in venture capital funding.

Heidi DeHart brings a deep love for storytelling and a steady hand under pressure to any client. With a career rooted in B2B and tech communications, she knows how to spot a great angle, build lasting media relationships, and turn complex ideas into headlines that matter.

Heidi DeHart
Senior Media Relations Manager

Birds of a Feather

Partner with us to solve complex client problems. We’re building a community that creates mutual referral opportunities between experienced partners.

This program rewards our community for helping us discover more like-minded (and like-driven) groups of individuals.

Hope isn’t afraid to jump into the deep end of the media relations pool to help clients achieve their dream stories. She has been placing clients in such prestigious outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business TV, Bloomberg (print and TV), Bloomberg Radio, CNBC TV and USA Today since the earliest days of her career.

Hope Sander
Senior Associate

Anika is a dynamic PR professional whose passion for storytelling enables her to craft narratives that connect with people, inspire change and drive results. She thrives at the intersection of PR and technology, using data-driven insights and digital strategies to make a significant impact.

Anika Grendell
Associate

50

Successfully positioned and brought more than 50 tech brands to market across more than 15 verticals.

Collyn Burke is a passionate communicator who excels at bringing big ideas to life. With a background in journalism, she works hand in hand with clients to transform their PR goals into strategic, impactful results. Her experience spans fast-moving industries such as AI, cybersecurity, and fintech, where she has helped clients land coverage in outlets like Axios, Bloomberg and Fortune.

Collyn Burke
Client Success Manager

100s

Enhanced the thought leadership footprint of hundreds of tech executives.

Jill Neuhaus is your go-to maestro for all things organization and project management. Whether it’s streamlining processes, orchestrating automation, or turning chaos into coordinated brilliance, count on her to increase engagement and exposure. She is not just a “Jill of All Trades”; she’s your strategic partner in conquering the business world.

Jill Neuhaus
Administrative Assistant

As a seasoned marketing professional, Johnny has over a decade of experience developing effective media strategies and building innovative campaigns. With expertise spanning digital, linear and out-of-home channels, Johnny excels at developing data-driven marketing plans that expand audience reach and drive meaningful market share.

Johnny Vargas
Marketing Strategist

Blair is the founder of AutoCFO, and specializes in financial analysis and reporting, forecasting, board communication, M&A transactions, process development and implementation. Prior to her experience as a CFO, Blair was a private equity investor at Dos Rios Partners in Austin, Texas and at Fisher Lynch Capital in San Francisco, CA.

Blair Morrison
Fractional CFO

Robin Schaffer is an analyst relations wiz, AR evangelist and author of Analysts on Analyst Relations.  She has been entrenched in the AR world for almost 20 years, having built programs for several global vendors.

Robin Schaffer
Analyst Relations

Glenn Mandel is a seasoned public relations and media relations professional with more than 30 years of national PR agency experience leading major brand accounts. In addition, he has deep relationships with major national media yielding consistent and impactful exposure for clients.

Glenn Mandel
Senior Strategist

Anywhere that data and marketing intersect, you’re bound to find Jed tinkering nearby in his mad data lab. From his early days of taking truck parts inventories in Excel 97 spreadsheets to building machine learning and AI models today, Jed is sold on the power of data to help companies make smarter marketing, advertising and PR decisions.

Jed Jones
Data Scientist

10,000

Executed internal communications programs that reached more than 10,000 employees across more than a dozen companies.

A bastion of steadfastness, Stephanie spearheads the agency’s finances, ensuring that the team has the tools it needs to perform at full capacity, achieve exceptional results and surpass clients’ lofty expectations.

Stephanie Trusler
Accounts Receivable