Mike Song

CEO & Co-Founder

Mike Song is an excellent keynote speaker, author, and trainer. He is the co-author of the hit businesss productivity book: The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before it Manages You (Berrett-Koehler 2007) which now has 80,000 copies in print in 11 languages. An expert on defeating information overload - Song and Cohesive Knowledge Solutions have surveyed over 20,000 professionals to date. Best known for co-developing the breakthrough Info-Excellence seminar with Tim Burress -- Song has appeared in over 200 press stories on email, meetings, and information overload management.

Media appearances include Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, NPR Morning Edition, ABC Morning News, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NY Times, Washington Post,

Mike holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Connecticut.

Timothy S. Burress

President, Senior Vice President of Training, Co-Founder

Tim Burress is widely recognized as one of the best training designers in the nation. Tim and his training team have provided workshops to more than 50,000 knowledge workers to date. Burress was recently featured in a National Public Radio segment about email overload and is frequently cited as a leading expert on training as a tool for enterprise productivity improvement.

Tim's clients include Capital One, HP, P&G, Schering Plough, and BI.

Burress is the co-author of the best-selling business productivity book -- The Hamster Revolution.Burress has a BA from Marietta College in Marietta Ohio.

Jeff Burress

Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales

Jeff is a classically trained brand marketer with extensive sales and client service expertise and a depth of experience that ranges from one of the world’s largest companies to the entrepreneur environment of a start–up venture.  In his 20 years of marketing and sales experience he has a proven track record of developing new business, exceeding sales and profit goals and building brand equity. His vast experience includes new product development, brand strategy, consumer/trade promotion, public relations, consumer relationship marketing (CRM), electronic marketing, account specific marketing, and sales. 

Before joining CKS, Jeff helped drive sales for Convergence Marketing from 0 to $15 million per year. Prior to joining Convergence, Jeff held executive positions at Unilever, Tom's of Maine, and Supermarkets online.

Jeff is a graduate of Gettysburg College with a BA in Political Science.  He also is a regular panelist, speaker, and columnist with a focus on innovative sales and marketing strategies.

Advisor: Board of Directors

Steve Stone joined CKS as a Board member in 2004. A 28-year software and computer industry veteran, Steve has held executive management positions with Microsoft Corporation, Spyglass, Intergraph Corporation and NCR. At Microsoft he led the development of DRM, ClearType and Reading technologies for Microsoft Office®. At Spyglass he led the development of the Spyglass Mosaic browser which became the basis of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Steve is the CEO of InfoFlows Corporation. InfoFlows works with many of the world's leading companies to help them become more competitive through building effective enterprise and consumer strategies in the area of finding, delivering, monetizing and protecting information. InfoFlows includes strategy and development team capabilities that deliver software solutions based on super-distribution, digital rights management and digital object identification technologies.

Steve holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina as well as an MBA also from the University of South Carolina. He also currently serves on the board of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Inc.

Ricardo Torres

Board of Directors