Teneshia Jackson Warner
Our Founder
Teneshia founded EGAMI Group in 2007 On Purpose. She has accumulated more than a decade of experience in multicultural marketing, project management and inspirational life coaching as a purpose-driven individual.
As CEO, Teneshia has led the agency from a dream concept to a thriving multi-million dollar business, delivering award-winning work for major brands, such as Procter & Gamble, Verizon Wireless, Dasani, Rosa Regale, General Motors, Target, KFC, Major League Baseball, Delta and more. In 2012, Teneshia released her first book, Profit With Purpose: A Marketers Guide to Deliver Purpose-Driven Campaigns to Multicultural Audiences, which earned rave reviews as the first-of-its-kind to be focused on multicultural, purpose-driven marketing.
Teneshia is the recipient of a number of career awards, including the coveted Black Enterprise Rising Star Award, Black Enterprises Forty Under 40, AdColor MVP and The Network Journals Forty Under 40 Award. Shes also been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, Essence magazine and Black Enterprise, along with guest appearances on ABC News and The Steve Harvey Show for her entrepreneurial and purpose-inspired successes.
Mike Warner
Chief Relationship Officer
Mike has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning the last two decades in music, entertainment, marketing, fashion, business development and tourism.
He is driven by integrity and authenticity, which underscore his On Purpose approach to work. These qualities have enabled him to collaborate with some ofthe world’s best-known artists and brands. As the Chief Relationship Officer of EGAMI Group, Mike connects brands to urban and multicultural consumers through culture and community and covets the relationships he’s built and nurtured with clients, influencers, talent and media alike.
Mike’s stellar reputation led to his selection as the Tourism Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, where he impacts tourism growth via his industry relationships and expertise in marketing and communications.
LAURA HALL
Senior Strategist
As a seasoned global consumer brand marketer and communications strategist, Laura is expert in helping companies use creativity and omni-channel strategies to turn consumers into brand champions On Purpose.
Enjoying a more than 25-year career, she has helped shape the great stories brands tell to catapult their products, elevate their position, disrupt the status quo, engage consumers in meaningful ways and grow a business. Whether a Fortune 10 company or start-up, reinventing brands, launching products, cultivating conversations that drive action and delivering unexpected ideas is her passion. In this high-touch, high-tech world, critical to communications and marketing success, and a measurable return on ideas is the right strategy to not just win with audiences, but also, compel them to advocate. From helping clients think differently and take creative risks, Laura relies on strategy to get clients out of their comfort zone, channel creative thinking in new ways and nurture business for growth.
LIV LEWIS
Vice President
Liv is a senior public relations executive and strategist with more than a decade of consumer experience helping brands be On Purpose to effectively reach their targets. Her experience spans various consumer categories, with a special concentration in beauty (both prestige and mass) products, CPG, entertainment, and lifestyle. She has managed communications efforts for global brands, such as Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena, Bath & Body Works and Procter & Gamble’s with brands including Crest, Tide, Downy, PUR and Duracell.
Liv has a proven track record in successfully developing robust media and influencer programs that deliver on business objectives. With her knowledge of media strategy and engineering strategic partnerships, Liv leads EGAMI Group in client services, counsel, program development and public relations.
LAURA SUTPHEN
President
With more than 30 years of experience building brands, leading social change, and driving business growth, Laura Sutphen is known as a “big idea” person with an instinct for connecting talent and ideas that leads to agency innovation. She’s worked for some of the world’s largest agencies and is also an entrepreneur who founded and led her own agency for more than a decade. Throughout her career, she has been a bias disrupter, with a long track record of allyship and working in and with communities of color. And as a thought leader in social impact and inclusion, she’s worked with global brands and organizations to architect some of the biggest moments in culture including Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Sephora, Warner Bros., Tapestry, eBay and Unilever.
In addition to her agency background, Laura also led communications at Amazon where she reshaped a global team around a united vision, drove alignment of corporate reputation, and launched the Black Business Accelerator. As the President of EGAMI Group, Laura has ownership of all day-to-day agency management with a focus on scaling operations, infrastructure, and capabilities to accelerate the power of multicultural at scale.
Raul Pinto
Chief Financial Officer/ Chief Operation Officers
Raul is a strategic financial advisor with 11 years of global agency experience. Raul prides himself in finding trends in financial numbers to effectively manage a business, drive strategy, allocation of capital, and the management of risk.Raul brings to the agency deep expertise in contract review and negotiations, financial planning and analysis, budget and forecast management, operational management, and financial systems implementation.
As an executive on EGAMI Groups senior leadership team, Raul leads the agency’s business operations and finances
April Boykin-Huchko
HR Director
April began her HR career within the Advertising/PR industry over 14 years ago, providing HR counsel at both boutique to global agencies. As a results driven HR Leader, April has a proven track record of creating inclusive spaces that thrive, building effective relationships, and developing people strategies to meet business objectives that ultimately drive productivity and keep employees engaged as agency ambassadors. April is dedicated to partnering with leadership to deliver value added services to achieve aligned goals, cultivating an inclusive workforce conducive to collective greatness and igniting professional passions that drive innovation, On Purpose.