experience amazing
To us, culture is more than a buzzword. It’s a way of living. We take our culture seriously, living and breathing the Interrupt way, every day, to deliver a killer experience for our clients, our team and our community.
#workfun
our people are ridiculously smart (alecks)
We pull, stretch and contort until we create ideas that live in the unexpected. And the fun we have together far exceeds what should be allowed at work. Think you can hang with us?
the team
Took what he learned from 20 years of corporate sales and business leadership in the building products space and created the kind of agency partner he always wanted as a client.
Bill Rossiter
CEO and Principal
Leads our team with a powerful fusion of creative and strategic insights honed over 20 years of cultivating major brands.
Anita Holman
Executive Creative Director and Brand Strategist
A marketing pro turned insights guru, this recovering adrenaline junkie channels his need for speed into deep research and strategic leadership to help take our work to the next level.
Sandy Embrescia-Hridel
Director of Strategic Insights
Previously did accounting for the agricultural industry, literally counting beans. Today we’re thrilled to have her improving yield and nurturing growth in our field.
Jolene Tanner
Director of HR and Finance
With nearly two decades of agency experience and a relentlessly upbeat attitude, she handily juggles ever-changing details against fixed deadlines to get each job done right.
Suzanne Silva
Director of Operations
His passion for people and client success has allowed him to develop strong relationships with clients at all levels and help drive strategic thinking across organizations.
Brian Dean
Director of Digital Strategy
Bethany Sanker
Director of Client Services
With over a decade of experience in branding, digital content, and campaign development, he champions collaboration and strives to turn complex ideas into visually engaging, results-driven experiences.
Joel Bentley
Senior Art Director
With a background in the professional sports industry, Troy brings a team first mentality with him to everything he does.
Troy Hester
Art Director
When not treasure hunting at estate sales, antique shops, or consignment stores, she's helping to find hidden gems within our clients' brands, driving projects that turn strategic marketing initiatives into value-added reality.
Kristi Evarts
Senior Project Manager
With a head for logic and an eye for style, she turns abstract concepts into rock solid brand and marketing elements, steadily unleashing awesome in print, digital and experiential forms.
Erin Kunz
Associate Creative Director
With years of hands-on experience in research, account project management roles, she pushes the envelope—and the team—to deliver within budget and beyond expectations.
Emily Johnson
Strategic Account Manager
With over 10 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Shyla is detail oriented, organized, and works well under pressure. Her personal “brand” is to effectively manage projects so all the pieces and parts come together seamlessly.
Shyla Helmintoller
senior project manager
Never satisfied with "close enough," our resident Photoshop genius and mock-up guru has a meticulous eye for detail honed over 27 years of agency design and production work.
Shannon Yocom
Production Manager
A creative force whose past work includes designing Olympic bids for cities from Seoul to Los Angeles, she’s now bringing home the gold for our building materials brands.
Sara Syrek
Associate Creative Director
Bringing more than a decade of big-box retail and building products marketing experience, he's not afraid to ask the tough questions that lead to strategic insights and creative solutions for his clients.
Kyle Rhine
Strategic Account Manager
A tech-savvy Peloton enthusiast with extensive agency and media experience, she loves finding just the right mix of leverage and momentum to shift our brand strategies into high gear.
Cara Andres
Senior Account Executive
A fine art major and computer programming minor in college—Erik brings 20+ years of creating award winning digital experiences for fortune 500 clients to the team.
Erik Porter
User Experience Strategist & Web Designer
From big ideas to subtle tweaks, she mines the intersection of facts, emotion and language to help build brands that connect with buyers in meaningful and lasting ways.
Jen Molnar
Director of Brand Content
Vince brings over a decade of marketing experience from the gym, agriculture, and construction industries. He believes digital marketing is the best tactic for businesses to stand out from their competitors. He enjoys putting together media plans as a hobby.
Vince Hulett
Digital Media Manager
With over 25 years planning and buying media, Jen is dedicated in making budgets of all sizes deliver the most impressions for her clients. Her knack for developing meaningful relationships with sales representatives ensures her clients are always top of mind.
Jennifer Christmas
Media Planner/Buyer
Lives by the mantra that “failing to plan is planning to fail,” but after 16 years in agency work and 25 years in digital, she also knows how to go with the flow and adapt on the fly.
Karen Torok
Senior Project Manager - Digital
Paula brings a very detailed eye and many years of experience working on website QA and analytics. Playing in the weeds of a digital project is where she shines.
Paula Rassenfoss
Digital Project Manager
Dave Behm
Senior Art Director
With past roles in scent marketing, digital media and Brooklyn-based start-ups, he has a nose for what’s next.
Bill Giacci
account executive
Though not quite dated to the hammer and chisel age, Dan did write his high school papers on a manual Royal typewriter. It sowed a love of words and writing that reaps results for his clients.
Dan Tischler
Senior Copywriter
A customer service veteran, Rachel is the welcoming face and positivity tone-setter you can’t miss when you walk in our door. Her infectious smile and can’t-wait-to-know-you spirit keeps the office humming at peak performance.
Rachel Wise
Office Coordinator
This one-time entrepreneur, poet, and now dedicated marketer utilizes sharp intuition & a borderline obsessive work ethic to help brands craft powerful stories that make your customers care.
Ernest Turner
associate content director
Angie has over 25 years of agency experience. Highly technical and process driven, she continues to find new ways to take projects to the next level. She brings in-depth knowledge/creative flair for video production to the team.
Angie Coakley
Senior Project Manager
While his timesheets are notoriously late and (ahem) dog-eared, we let it slide on account of Dozer’s many years of loyal service.
Dozer
office escort
A snowboarding queen and digital illustrating maven, Hayley is as comfortable making lines in fresh powder as she is on her iPad. Her enthusiasm for new tech makes her a master design asset to our clients.
Hayley Kandik
Graphic Designer
With a decade of experience in the building materials industry and a sharp eye for the nitty-gritty details, she digs beyond surface level to produce copy that resonates with clients and customers.
Shelly Gorringe
Copywriter
Mark Zurawski
Senior Project Manager
She honed her craft writing award-winning stories for the region’s top arts and education institutions. Now she’s crafting copy for our award-winning clients.
Alia Orra
Senior Copywriter
Her first word was “why.” It’s still her favorite, as a researcher with 20-plus years of experience delivering strategic insights to Fortune 500 clients.
Stephanie Gries
Strategic Insights Manager
Whether wielding a hot glue gun for her latest crafting obsession or crafting a finely detailed schedule for her latest client project, Krysta combines organizational structure and creative flexibility to pull all the pieces together, beautifully.
Krysta Irmen
Senior Project Manager
A respected pro in mar-com, media relations and writing, she blends 20+ years of building materials and home improvement experience with a “can do” attitude and dependable results for client longevity that exceeds the norm.
Maureen Murray
Public Relations
A master craftsman in building brands that build, Joey is a storyteller and loves helping clients see potential in their marketing journey. There’s many “Joeyisms” but his favorite is “anyone can market an iPhone, try making a bag of sand interesting.”
Joey Peters
Senior Account Executive
Oversees our electronic infrastructure, managing anything that beeps, buzzes or flickers, while supporting other key office functions to maximize uptime of both electronic and human resources.
Matt Wittman
Director of I.T. and Office Manager
Once managed the aesthetics of physical spaces, print pieces and digital experiences featuring priceless art. Now makes priceless contributions to our clients’ brand experiences.
Chris Graver
Associate Creative Director
where we work
Givebacks
We get out and give back
Our job isn’t done until our community is a better place. If you work with us, you better bring your passion to impact others.
#interruptcares
careers
Be our wingman
Do you enjoy branding and frequent competition? Are you fearless and passionate? Do you live in the unexpected? Do you have the need for speed? Do you occasionally use swears?
Yeah? Cool. Let’s talk.