4Syndication is built on the background and experiences of its founders whose expertise combines local business and marketing expertise, search engine optimization, and software engineering and development.

Marci De Vries - Vice President, Digital Communications
Marci De Vries is the vice president, digital communications at Imre Communications. Prior to Imre Communications, Marci was the founder and CEO of MDV Communications, an online communications company that performs extensive research and specialized campaigns for search engines, online communications and Web site traffic generation for customer acquisition. She is an expert in the area of search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and blogging strategies with RSS. With a master's degree in public communication from American University and a certificate in Internet Advertising and Promotion from Georgetown University, she is a frequent guest lecturer in marketing and online communications for Johns Hopkins University and Loyola College. She also leads corporate marketing workshops for the Baltimore AMA, she is the technology columnist for Smart Woman Magazine, and her online marketing articles have appeared in National Mortgage Broker Magazine and the Scotsman Guide. Marci has worked with a broad range of corporate clients including Johns Hopkins-Bloomberg School of Health, First Mariner Bank, Sarah Lawrence College, and Finnegan Henderson.

Galen Palmer - Technical Director
With an M.S. in computer science from Johns Hopkins, Galen has over 10 years experience as a software engineer and project lead on enterprise applications for corporate and government clients. He has a wide-variety of software development experience with a particular emphasis on data-mining, language parsing, client-side data visualization and user interface design.