Leadership Team

As CEO of Kickstand, Molly thrives on solving big challenges and achieving what others would call impossible. Since founding Kickstand in 2013, Molly has built Kickstand to be a leading PR agency for the world’s most innovative and fastest growing tech brands. Trusted by early market disruptors and publicly traded companies alike, Molly has led programs for brands across every stage of business, from scaling startups, to taking B2B tech brands through successful IPOs and guiding publicly-traded companies through private equity acquisitions. Today, Molly’s focus is centered on leading the agency's global growth strategy and ensuring Kickstand is the best place for top marketing talent looking to achieve ambitious goals in both career and life. The agency's unique benefits, which include working parent stipends and alternative workweeks with every other Friday off, have been recognized by publications including Forbes, Business Insider, and ScaryMommy. When she's not scaling Kickstand, Molly enjoys getting outside and spending time with her two young sons, who have made her great at being flexible, cheering obnoxiously at sporting events, and tolerating noises of unacceptable decibel levels. She holds a BA from The University of Texas.

As COO, Kristina is responsible for client growth and success, financial planning, the launch and expansion of additional product lines, and geographic expansion. Under her 10-year tenure, Kickstand has achieved exponential growth, including 2x total revenue and headcount growth during the past two years, which included securing record client retention levels, growing international revenue, and scaling its digital practice 2x year-over year. The company was recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing in America in 2022.  In addition to Kristina's leadership of Kickstand, she works daily directly with both b2b and b2c clients, solving for critical communications strategy and crisis needs, offering specialties in category creation and competitive strategy.

Prior to Kickstand, Kristina held management and executive-level marketing roles in some of the fastest growing consumer-tech startups, including Philo, Abine, Bigcommerce, Gazelle.com and Zipcar.

Outside of work, Kristina and her family are active in the Austin community. Kristina has served as a mentor for numerous tech organizations including MassChallenge and Techstars. As former foster parents, she and her husband are active in support of foster youth in the Austin area, and as former D1 athletes, they share a passion for access to athletics and actively support the Austin Athletic Scholarship Fund. Outside of work, Kristina and her family love to travel with their three boys and have visited countless national parks along with more than 20 countries, and have served as a host family for foreign exchange students.

Kristina lives in Lakeway, TX with her husband and three sons and holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and her MBA from MIT-Sloan.

As head of finance, Elisabeth has been a core part of Kickstand’s success since its inception in 2013. With Elisabeth’s support, Kickstand has grown not only quickly – but intelligently. It’s no surprise that she’s a numbers person, with a few of her favorites being 13.1, 26.2, and 140.6. Yes, outside of work Elisabeth actively chooses to participate in daunting feats including half and full marathons and Ironman Triathlons, often competing alongside or in honor of several of her siblings. And if that fun fact didn’t already make you tired, this one will: Elisabeth is a self-proclaimed morning person, regularly rising at 4am and achieving more by sunrise than most people do in an entire day.

Nycole leads strategy for Kickstand’s digital services team, including research, content, social media, and influencer marketing. Working across nearly all of Kickstand’s B2B and B2C clients, Nycole’s team specializes in capturing compelling and newsworthy owned data and turning it into high-performance content for use across PR, marketing, sales, and more.

Under her leadership since 2021, the digital team has seen over a 215% increase in annual revenue. In 2024, Nycole expanded her focus to include digital revenue operations, directing her efforts toward the agency’s growth as well as client service. She now ensures continuous impact through sales, marketing, and customer success efforts.

Outside of work, you can find Nycole baking the most amazing cakes, breaking out of escape rooms, or traveling (probably to one of the Disney parks). She lives in beautiful Austin, TX with her two kiddos and a blue-eyed leucistic ball python named Figment. Nycole is certified in data analytics through Harvard Business School Online and holds the “certified research expert” designation from IIPMR.

Hannah is the head of Kickstand’s global enterprise efforts, having spent over a decade building these SaaS programs for clients ranging from cloud giants like Oracle and Salesforce to high-growth brands across areas including AI + automation, data privacy, DevOPs, finserv and marketing and sales technology. Hannah’s true passion lies in the ability to establish and scale successful narratives for clients globally, making the deeply technical digestible and compelling for each ICP.

Joanna, endearingly called Jo, has a rich background behind the camera, spanning almost a decade, which has honed her storytelling prowess. For the 30 Rock fans out there, she started her career in NYC as an NBC Page (think Kenneth in real life), where she gave tours of NBC studios and held roles at the Today Show, SNL, NBC local news, and Syfy’s marketing department. She then spent over six years as a producer at CNBC Business News, covering a wide array of special programming for both dayside and primetime, from breaking news and IPOs to the secret lives of the super-rich.

Jo's deep understanding of how reporters think allows her to leverage her insider knowledge and expertise to craft strategies that drive compelling coverage and deliver real business impact. After moving to Boston to venture into public relations, she worked with companies of all sizes, from startups to IPO-stage (her favorite letters, coincidentally).

Now, with over five years under her belt at Kickstand, Jo leads strategic initiatives for high-growth companies in the supply chain, ed-tech, insurtech, and healthcare sectors. She has a profound passion for client service, developing high-performing talent, and people management. This passion has allowed her to define and excel in her role at Kickstand.

Jo now resides in her home state of New York, exploring a new neighborhood in the Hudson Valley, just 90-minutes north of NYC. In the fall, this area reminds her of her Sicilian roots, with its harvest season for wine grapes and a family tradition of making tomato sauce from scratch with her relatives.

In her free time, she enjoys traveling, dining at new restaurants, walking her beagle Sophie, and binging on Bravo.

Lindsay is Kickstand's Global Account Manager, a role in which she focuses heavily on expanding the agency's operations into new markets across EMEA, APAC and LATAM. With a decade of experience under her belt, Lindsay specializes in leading high-volume, multinational corporate media programs across the tech landscape.

Prior to working in PR, Lindsay spent three years living in South America, where she led marketing efforts at local community NGOs. When she's not working, you're most likely to find Lindsay globe trotting in a new country (most recently her travels took her to Egypt and Thailand) or hiking somewhere in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, Joseph, and pup, Milo.

Rebecca is an experienced public relations professional who specializes in B2B and B2C technology. With a background in broadcast journalism, she brings a unique perspective to her role as an Account and Media Manager at Kickstand. For more than six years before changing careers, Rebecca worked in local newsrooms across the northeast and in top U.S. markets, which now allows her to excel at securing high-impact media coverage for her clients.

During her journalism career, Rebecca covered a wide range of significant events such as two presidential elections, during which she reported on rallies and protests, and interviewed various political figures on the campaign trail. She also traveled to Guatemala to report on human rights issues and covered the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

Rebecca holds a Master's in Communication with a concentration in Public Relations from Southern New Hampshire University, complementing her Bachelor's in Electronic Journalism Arts from Lyndon State College. She also received foundational training in television media production at Nashoba Valley Technical High School.

Outside of her role at Kickstand, Rebecca is actively involved as an Advisory Committee Member at Nashoba Valley Technical High School, where she contributes her expertise to educational initiatives. She is also a certified Learn to Skate USA instructor.

With a keen eye for transforming data into captivating stories, Miranda leads the charge in crafting research and content that helps brands stand out in the digital landscape and strikes a chord with renowned publications such as The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Forbes, CNBC, and more.

Before shifting her focus to Kickstand's digital operations, Miranda worked on Kickstand’s PR team, where she learned how to create compelling narratives that resonate with both top-tier and niche trade publications and speak to a variety of B2B and B2C audiences.

Hailing from Atlanta, Miranda now calls Austin, TX home, where she resides with her husband and dogs. Outside of work, she loves trying every new restaurant in the city and spending time outdoors (even in the Texas heat). Miranda's academic background includes a BS in Media and Entertainment from Kennesaw State University, supplemented by certifications in research and data analytics from Harvard Business School Online and Seton Hall University.

Mark is an Account Manager and the head of the London team at Kickstand. With extensive experience across EMEA, he specializes in representing both B2B and consumer clients, primarily in the tech industry.

Mark is passionate about building and executing strategic media programs that align with a company’s vision, resulting in standout media coverage that drives meaningful business results.

Living around the world in countries like Spain, Thailand and China has given Mark a unique global perspective. When he’s not planning his next trip, he enjoys exploring sunny London or feeding his greedy cat, Simba, who always keeps him on his toes.

A former educator (she taught Latin!) and Classist, Kara decided to leave the world of the ancients and enter the present day by supporting today’s technology brands through integrated PR. She has touched many industries - in both B2B and B2C - everything from marketing & sales technology, cybersecurity, and generative AI to manufacturing & commercial and edtech. Kara deeply values opportunities to learn and become an expert in different areas and views education and PR as a journey. She has applied the skills she developed and fine tuned during her years teaching and doing graduate research to learning about new tech and prides herself on her ability to deep dive into difficult or complicated concepts and distill the information in a digestible way. On top of her love for creating unique stories for brands, she is passionate about building relationships with her clients and account teams. A Texas native, Kara loves to travel and even spent some time living in Rome, Italy. Kara holds a BA from The University of Texas (Hook ‘em Horns) and a Master’s from The University of Edinburgh.