Francine Hardaway

email: francine@stealthmode.com
URL: www.stealthmode.com


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Francine Hardaway

Marketing and Public Relations


Francine Hardaway is an experienced marketer with expertise in Internet operations. She is a developer of strategic partnerships, and a strategic relationship manager with experience in Marketing and Public Relations for growth companies (from startup to IPO to maturity. As a partner in stealthmode.com, she helped package and secure funding for four early-stage technology companies in one-year. She has created positioning and marketing strategies for dozens of early-stage companies, and is a founder of Opnix, Inc., a venture-backed Internet infrastructure start-up that received $8.35 million seed financing. Prior to founding stealthmode.com, Dr. Hardaway was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Innovative Environmental Products, and Manager of Worldwide Press Relations at Intel Computing Enhancement Group, where she planned the entrance of the intelligent I/O server chip into the OEM market; and created the public relations plans for digital imaging, in-car computing, USB, and home networking. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Hardaway built the largest marketing/public relations firm in Phoenix, Arizona before leaving it to join Intel.