Ross Levanto
Since 1997, Ross Levanto has raised the visibility of a broad range technology companies in several industries, including application development and open source, application integration, security, storage, Web communities, Web acceleration and Web search technologies. During his tenure at the Agency, he has led teams creating new markets and market categories, from Web shopping and online people searching to Web services and open source integrated developer environments.
Ross also enjoys placing clients in the media. He has successfully placed strategic features in a variety of print and broadcast outlets, including Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, CNN and the Associated Press.
Ross graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications, summa cum laude, from Boston University. Prior to joining Schwartz, Ross was the webmaster at WHDH-TV Channel 7, an NBC affiliate in Boston. In the Fall of 1996, he worked in Vice President Al Gore's Communications Office in Washington, where among other duties he performed background research for the Clinton administration's export encryption policies.
Ross is also an active volunteer in the local technology scene. He has served as vice president, press and public affairs for the New England Business and Technology Association, which later merged with the Massachusetts Software Council. He is the originator of the Association's annual awards ceremony, which is still in existence today.
