Joyce Gavenda
Operations
Before joining Earley & Associates, Joyce was Chief Operating Officer of Summit Strategies, Inc., a market strategy firm for IT vendors. Her other roles at the firm included Director of Marketing and IT Analyst. As COO, she successfully steered the firm to reach $5M during the wild sales buildup in the 1990s dot.com era, to the rapid sales decline of the dot.bomb era, to the firm’s acquisition in 2006.
Before joining Summit, Joyce was CEO and Founder of Communication Concepts, a full-service marketing firm that helped product and services clients build strategies to take advantage of marketplace opportunities. Joyce was also Director of Marketing for O’Donnell-Usen Fisheries, a division of ConAgra, and held various management positions for the (then) leading supermarket chain in the Chicago, IL market.
She holds a master of business administration (concentration, marketing) from Syracuse University and a bachelor of science from the State University of New York at Cortland.