December 28th, 2011: Confluence Media Complete R&D Phase for its’ market intelligence platform the Litmus Business Network

After 9-months of research and development Confluence Media completes the research and development require to start prototyping the core capabilities required to find new niche markets that the small and medium-sized enterprise can afford.

March 1st, 2011: Confluence Media adds Christian Green to its Board of Directors

Christian Green is a software manager with 20 years of education and experience in the software and semiconductor industries, including nine years in management. He has broad-based experience in software management, including development, program management, staffing, software architecture, implementation, rollout, and quality assurance.

He presently works at NVIDIA as a customer engineering software manager for Tegra processors.  His team implements custom software solutions for customers building phones and tablets running Android.  Prior to that, he managed the development of an internal tool for writing verification tests for software models of GPUs and for confirming correct operation of GPU silicon devices.

Christian has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

October 15th, 2010: Confluence Media Opens its Best Practices Wiki

Confluence Media has initiated a program to share its internally developed library of best practices in traditional marketing, wine marketing, social media marketing, and more. The goal of the wiki is to provide an open forum for people to consume, share, and add to the documentation of best practices for wine marketers. For an invitation request, please visit our wiki.

July 1st, 2010: Confluence Media Transitions its Business Focus to Servicing the Wine Industry

Confluence Media has been planning its transition to servicing the wine industry for the past 9 months. Preparations to accomplish this goal included strategic hires, board development, product development, market research, and strategic investments. We had a clear goal in mind when undertaking this transition: to help wineries, businesses within a traditional industry, use bleeding-edge social media intelligence and marketing techniques to streamline their sales and marketing efforts and accelerate growth.

June 14th, 2010: JT Sison Added to Board of Directors

Confluence Media is excited to announce that JT Sison has been elected as the Secretary of the Board of Directors. JT brings a tremendous amount of value and insight from a strategic planning and business development background, specifically with market analysis and sales planning. JT Sison is currently a founding member of Streamflow Partners, a strategy consulting firm focused on accelerating growth within small businesses. Before Streamflow, JT worked as a VP of Business Development at Sana Security Corporation, where he focused on national and international channel relationships. Before Sana, JT held a series of business development roles in technology, security and CRM focused companies, including Borland, Remedy, and Next Computer.

April 1st, 2010: Confluence Media Appoints Matthew Graney as President and Co-Founder

As part of the company expansion efforts, Matthew Graney has joined the Confluence Media team to focus on product development, product marketing, and engineering. Prior to joining Confluence, Graney ran product management and services at Aragon Consulting Group, Inc., a startup in the software development tools space. Aragon had previously acquired Krugle Inc., where Graney held a similar role. Before Krugle, Graney lead a team of product managers at Borland Software, Inc, and earlier, he held a range of roles from field sales to technical marketing at Telelogic (acquired by IBM). Graney began his career as a software engineer in the communications (Motorola) and defense sectors. Graney has a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) from the University of Adelaide, Australia.