Management
Brandt Page
Founder & CEO
With a strong business sense, a deep understanding of clients’ needs and an unfailing dedication to high integrity business practices, Brandt oversees all company departments at Launch Leads, his third successful business venture.
As a young entrepreneur with a bootstrapping mentality, Brandt believes in doing more with less, focusing on quality of service, and consistent innovation throughout the company. With experience in starting multiple profitable businesses centered on the highly competitive sales and marketing industry, Brandt continues to make his mark on Utah’s entrepreneurial landscape.
Brandt and his team’s award-winning strategies have enabled companies to improve their bottom line and reduce costs by allowing Launch Leads to do the “heavy lifting” of prospecting and lead generation on their behalf. Brandt’s personal dedication to accountability and honesty has led to the formation of long-lasting and quality business relationships with clients.
Prior to founding Launch Leads (formerly Launch Sales and Marketing), Brandt partnered in starting Seatability, LLC, winning 4th & 3rd place in the Entrepreneur of the Year Competition at Brigham Young University as well as landing on the Top 10 in the Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge. Later, he helped build and lead an internal sales team and started Mortgage Compliance Advisors, LLC (MCA). While at MCA, Brandt built the sales and marketing teams, structure, systems and processes taking the start-up company to $1 million in sales in their first 8 months before a private equity firm acquired majority ownership.
Brandt is active in numerous associations, including Utah Technology Council, UtahTechX as a Board Member and mentor, Junto Partners, Corporate Alliance, ConnectShare, and Step by Step: Scholarships for Humanitarian Travel as a Board Member.
Brandt earned a B.S. of Communications from Brigham Young University.
He is a mentor for the Community Foundation of Utah and works with at-risk youth in Salt Lake City. He been on numerous panels and has judged various business competitions.
Awards and Recognition:
- Launch Leads was voted a “Top 25 Under 5” by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum in 2011 & 2012
- Launch received the Silver Medal for the “Best Outbound Marketing Campaign of the Year 2012″ by The Stevie’s Awards
- American Express selected him to advise their national OPEN Forum Pulse on Twitter and his Twitter @BrandtPage and @LaunchSales were selected as a Top 40 sales people to follow on Twitter
- Page was nominated for the “INC 30 Under 30″ award in 2010 and was elected into the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs elite group in 2010, 2011, and 2012
- Launch has been featured in the Utah CEO magazine as the 6th fastest growing company in Utah (2010)
- Launch was also named the CrowdPitch Winner (2010) from Funding Universe and was a Utah Start-up of the Year finalist 2010
- Page was named the Emerging Executive of the Year in 2009 by the Utah Technology Council
Ken Trionfo
Vice President of Operations
Being part of both early stage start-ups and large International companies over the last 15 years, Ken has proven excellence in 3 areas:
- In-depth understanding of markets and customers.
- The ability to execute operationally, showing real ROI.
- Delivering powerful & engaging leadership, forming and inspiring high-performance teams.
In 2003, Ken joined 2 colleagues in the founding stages of InterbankFX, a small Utah online financial start-up, and in just over 5 years grew it from a 3 person start-up to Utah’s fastest growing company, with over 185 employees, 45,000+ global customers and a market valuation of 330 million dollars.
InterbankFX received numerous awards including:
- Inc 500 annual list of America’s fastest growing companies, #46.
- Utah’s #1 fastest growing company – Mountain West Capital’s 100 fastest growing companies.
- Customer Excellence Award - IB Times.
- #1 Fastest growing company in Utah – Utah Business Magazine’s annual Fast 50.
- American Business Awards Finalist for “Best Customer Service”
- UVEF #1 in it’s annual “Top 25 under 5”
As VP of Operations, Ken and his team created an award-winning customer experience, recognized by customers, third parties and competitors alike as the industry standard.
Ken specializes in using business analytics to optimize metric-based improvement processes that enable organizations to both scale and accelerate the expansion of their world-wide customer base.
Ken is an active member of the International Customer Management Institute and recently served as a member of the board of the Utah chapter of International Customer Service Institute.
Ken and his wife have two children and enjoy a very active life in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ethan Brown
Director of Teams
Bio coming soon.
Nancy Sutton
Client Services Director
Bio coming soon
Art Cole
Director of Technology
Coming soon
John Rail
Director of Human Resources
John brings extensive professional experience to the table for Launch Leads. As a member of Launch’s leadership team John is responsible for planning, developing, and administering human resource functions within Launch.
Prior to joining the Launch team, John served as Director of Corporate Quality for Learnframe, a Web-based learning management software system for corporate employee training programs. Working closely with the Executive and HR teams, he was instrumental in developing and implementing practical and sound HR processes and procedures for the company. John has influenced or been involved with human capital, HR, and leadership development for over three decades at Micron Technologies, NCI Information Systems, CACI International, and the U.S. Military.
Mr. Rail served in the U.S. Army for 20 years, retiring in 1989.
John joined Launch in September 2009 and was appointed Director of Human Resources in October 2010.
John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix.
