The Leaders of the Pack

Will Overstreet, Founder and CEO
Starting as a true freshman, Will played college football for the University of Tennessee, helping lead the team to an NCAA National Championship in 1998. Will was drafted in the third round by the Atlanta Falcons, where he started as a rookie, attracting a great deal of fan attention.

During his career with the Falcons and subsequently in television and radio sports broadcasting and analysis, Will formulated the concept that would become Voices Heard Media. As a player and on-air personality, he saw the branding and revenue potential of making personal connections with fans. The challenge, however, was how to give individual fans amongst an audience of thousands, or even millions, the one-to-one access they crave.

Shortly after filing his first patent, Will co-founded Voices Heard Media in April 2007 to commercialize the software platform that solved the challenge of creating personal connections that would scale to meet the demands of large audiences.

Will's primary responsibilities are defining the company's vision and direction and securing growth capital. He also takes an active role in business development and sales.

Craig Nealy, Executive VP of Sales and General Manager of Media Conglomerates and Global Partner Alliances
With over 15 years of leadership, marketing, sales and management experience, Craig has led business development efforts, sales and client relationship management at some of the fastest growing and most successful technology start up companies.

Nealy's focus with Voices Heard Media is to design and implement their global go-to-market sales strategy and assist in the realization of such strategy. "This is accomplished through providing a solid business framework and introductions to my global media conglomerate portfolio," Nealy said.

Nealy will assist in removing standard business barriers to fast track revenues and exponentially grow business while creating greater shareholder valuation.

Emma Woods, VP of Sales Operations
Emma brings over ten years of experience in web and online media startups to her role as VP of Sales Operations and Support. She is focused on supporting the Voices Heard Media sales engagement team by managing process, sales operations and procedures. In addition, she heads up our global partner alliance ecosystem.

Prior to joining the company in September 2010, Emma worked in the online streaming media and advertising industry. Her roles included much diversity, involving project and product management, sales, training, business development and partner relationships. As Director of Product Management she managed an in-house Professional Services team and a channel of strategic external partners to develop key software-as-a-service solutions.

A native of the U.K., Emma earned her BS in Information Science (with a minor in German!) at the University of North London before returning to the U.S. where she had spent a year as an exchange student. Emma currently lives in Knoxville with her husband and son, and in her spare time teaches for the American Meditation Society (a non-profit organization). She also currently sits on the AMS Board of Directors.

Tony Runyan, VP Product
Tony originally began working with Voices Heard Media in August 2008 as a consultant while completing his MBA at the University of Tennessee. Challenged to develop new applications and define new markets for the company, Tony was able to make initial connections that led to sustainable relationships with major media companies such as Disney and AOL.

Immediately after graduating in December 2008, Tony became a full-time employee of Voices Heard Media with the primary responsibilities of acquiring new customers and managing the relationships with current customers. In addition, Tony has played a vital role in developing the sales process, pricing, product road map and defining valid target markets and their values.

Prior to becoming a part of Voices Heard Media, Tony worked as a consultant for multiple companies in both the private and public sectors performing a variety of tasks from developing business plans to designing and conducting CRM surveys for an emerging technology company. As a consultant for a privately owned security and engineering company, Tony was responsible for developing and restructuring the overall strategy of its most profitable segment.

Ned Morgan, General Counsel and
VP Human Resources
Ned serves as General Counsel and Vice President of Human Resources for Voices Heard Media. His primary responsibilities as include contract negotiations, risk management, managing Voices Heard Media's IP portfolio and drafting and managing external user policies and agreements.  As head of Human Resources, Ned creates and implements internal policies and procedures and coordinates the day-to-day needs and interactions of the Voices Heard Media workforce.  

In addition to his work with Voices Heard Media, Ned serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he teaches Contract Drafting to upper level law students.  He also serves as the Membership Chair of the Knoxville Bar Association Corporate Counsel Section and sits on an Outcome Based Investment Committee for United Way of Greater Knoxville.

Prior to joining Voices Heard Media, Ned spent several years practicing complex commercial litigation dealing with issues such as intellectual property, contracts, securities and employment law. He then founded and served as President of a company dedicated to identifying, analyzing and re-licensing cutting edge government technology to the private market.

Ned earned both his JD and MBA from the University of Tennessee.

Mark Baird, Director of Development
Mark is an extraordinary Internet and mobile applications developer with 15 years in the consumer space, including major sites such as Jewelry Television, WebMD, Dell and Keystone Automotive. His leadership of VHM's Development Team has led to major breakthroughs in natural language analysis for different languages, global scalability, HTML5-based mobile functionality and, of course, fantastic products our clients love.

Chris Kosman, Creative Director
Chris Kosman is responsible for our user interface, usability, branding and strategic look and feel of all of our products and marketing collateral. Chris partners with each team at Voices Heard Media to provide end-to-end creative services, from strategy to concept and execution of traditional and interactive media.

Prior to joining the Voices Heard Media team, Chris worked with Jewelry TV where he specialized in the user interface and related creative projects. Before JTV, he worked as a creative director in the web design world, and he previously spent 15 years as Senior Designer in the print design world at an agency in California. He has worked with clients such as Lamar Snowboards, Kama Sutra, Bugle Boy, Panda Express, Singer, Ty Pennington, Amgen, Image Entertainment, and The Los Angeles Farmers' Market.

He earned his BFA in Advertising Design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA and has been published numerous times and has won multiple awards for his work through the years.

Chris lives in Knoxville with his wife and three kids, and enjoys photography, painting and mountain biking.