About Us

GenNext Media LLC, founded in October of 2008, is a revolutionary interactive media and marketing services company creating powerful new brands and re-building legacy brands.

The company has extensive experience leveraging high impact web technologies like social media to dominate niche markets. We accomplish this through our proprietary system reflective of the recent shift on the Internet which caused a whole new level of social interaction to open up. With our elite best-of-class partners we build businesses by creating and executing reverse-engineered marketing plans focused entirely on ROI with comprehensive content distribution for companies, publishers, national brands, and authors. In a nutshell, we build platforms where customers are educated, nurtured and ultimately converted to becoming loyal followers within our target niche.

GenNext Media LLC leadership includes two world class business marketers with over 53 years combined marketing, Internet technology and entrepreneurial business building experience:

Chris Marentis is the Founder and CEO of GenNext Media LLC and the author of Surefire Social and Disrupted. With nearly three decades of experience in media, marketing, and technology, Chris has a proven track record building businesses in turnaround, start-up and high growth situations. He has successfully created and implemented strategic plans, forged high-level strategic relationships and bridged marketing and media solutions with cutting-edge technology for Fortune 500 companies in both traditional and Interactive media.

Chris is the former CEO of Clearspring Technologies, one of the most widely adopted venture-backed Web 2.0 technology platform companies in the world. During the Web 1.0 boom, Chris led the industry as Senior Vice President of America Online’s (AOL) Interactive Marketing group. Working with some of the world’s most progressive and successful companies, Chris and the AOL interactive marketing team created the blueprint for online marketing, ecommerce and content branding in the new medium.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur successfully leading four early stage marketing and media technology companies raising over $20 million in capital.  He is currently an active investor and board member of Innovative Energy Group and investor in Clearspring Technologies.

Chris experience the last 27 years working with the newest marketing technologies with the largest media and ecommerce brands in the world provides a unique perspective on “the new normal” marketing paradigm. Years of hands on experience using powerful, low-cost technologies (including web services, cloud computing, semantic web and AJAX)—combined with new techniques like crowd sourcing, viral marketing, social media, educational marketing and search engine marketing—have provided unique insights into the future of media and marketing.

Elizabeth Kanna is a transformation expert who consults clients ranging in size from start-ups to market icons. Kanna’s visionary transformative work includes repositioning and rebranding, and renaming for prominence, effective strategies for the social Web, reinvention of business models, new media business development, innovative public relations and national promotions and world-class partnerships to increase the top line and market share for clients.

Kanna aptly pulls together disparate business segments, establishes frameworks for foundational shifts in business practices, builds publishing franchises in print and digital, and identifies emerging markets and technologies to monetize from education to new media. She has re-engineered brand positioning, and created national promotions with Dun & Bradstreet’s AllBusiness.com, The Grammy Foundation, Yahoo!, jetBlue Airways, Hilton and Sharp USA.

Kanna has been featured on TV networks Fox News, ABC, CBS, CNBC, CW, and in magazines and newspapers, including Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, U.S. News and Review and Women’s Day. As an emeritus advisor at an annual elite business retreat since 2003, Kanna has consulted with more than 500 business owners in taking their company to the next level. She has also consulted for billon-dollar companies, world-renowned scientists Sally Ride and Bob Ballard, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling authors, philanthropists working in 50 countries, and well-known entrepreneurs and celebrities.

A market leader and pioneer, Kanna co-founded a leading authoritative education portal that Forbes magazine named as one of the top 45 sites on the Internet in 2000. Kanna has consulted with leading education companies on the development of new online learning platforms from Web 1.0 to virtual schooling and mobile education platforms.  Kanna is also the co-author of two market-defining books that stand as authoritative analyses of the effectiveness of educational methodologies: Homeschooling for Success, and the first book ever written on Virtual education: Virtual Schooling: How to Optimize Your Child’s Education.

GenNext Media LLC is focused on employing an entirely new paradigm of marketing and media communications to create “magnetic” customer relationships in niche consumer and business markets. Through years of being innovators in both traditional and interactive media and marketing, Mr. Marentis and Ms. Kanna have developed proprietary processes and techniques that leveraging technology with accountable marketing and social media principles. In addition to providing marketing services solutions for partners with existing brands, GNM partners with leading brands, trademarks and personalities to build new media brands and marketing communications channels.