Management

Blanka Dido, Account Manager

Blanka comes to SDMG with a degree in Marketing and a background in marketing communications, event management and investor relations. Over the last couple of years, she has worked internationally in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia gaining exposure to various industries and valuable marketing strategies used abroad.

In particular, she successfully helped to promote the Slovakia Ski Region to other European markets and increased exposure of the organization as a whole. Blanka brings a different perspective to our team along with a passion for working with diverse clients.

Christine Roberts, Production Manager

Christine has over 10 years experience as a Digital Graphic Designer and Multimedia Artist. Nine of those years were spent running her own graphic design business. Over the years she has been successful in establishing long term relationships with her clients and is now applying her experience in project management and client relations to SDMG. With her love of design and new technology Christine tackles each new project with enthusiasm and desire to achieve excellence.

Christine has obtained a computer animation and digital graphic design diploma from Applied Multimedia Technical College.

Cliff Guinand, Creative Director

Cliff's natural talent for Art Direction and Design is bolstered by more than 20 years of experience in advertising. As an integral part of the creative team at SDMG, he tackles creative problems with both a passion for his craft and the motivation that comes from dynamic strategies.

Cliff has worked with clients such as Petro-Canada, TELUS, Hoechst Canada, Greyhound, Jayman, The Canadian Country Music Association, Lammle's Western Wear, Cody Snyder's Bull-Bustin', to name but a few.

For the past 5 years, Cliff has taught Marketing and Advertising Fundamentals at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

He has also designed and illustrated a line of clothing called Burnouts Hot Rod Wear, which is targeted to a niche automotive crowd.

Cliff has won many national and local industry awards over the years, such as Art Directors Club, Marketing Magazine, Summit, Ad Rodeo, CAMA and ACE Awards.

John Gauthier, Technology Director

John brings more than a decade of database administration, application design, programming and server infrastructure experience to SDMG. His role in directing the technical operations of SDMG provides an invaluable resource for clients who demand the kind of security, stability and scalability required for today's online applications.

Over the past few years, John has designed, coded and managed projects for some of North America's best know brands, with SDMG and in his roles prior to joining the team.

In addition to SDMG's clientele, John has experience working with clients such as FedEx, Shell Canada, Travel Newfoundland, Coast Hotels, Compario Research and a number of others.

John is also a partner in our sister company, Interfaceless Inc. Interfaceless (formerly Hostzilla) was an independent hosting and infrastructure company until it's acquisition by the owners of SDMG and John Gauthier in 2006. Since that date, more than $50,000 has been invested in Interfaceless to ensure the technology is top-notch and the redundancy, speed and power required by SDMG clients is available at all times.

This partnership means SDMG clients benefit from direct access to the technology backbone used to deploy their marketing campaigns. We can customize and tweak the hardware and software requirements as need, to ensure every campaign and program has the power and scalability it requires, on demand.