Who
We Are

From top to bottom, Modern Fanatic’s partners, staff, contributors and advisors are highly seasoned in pop culture marketing. Our team is fully committed to helping you succeed.

Kris Longo

President
Past: DC Comics, Bonfire Agency, MAD Event Management
Veteran advertising professional with 20 years dedicated to pop culture marketing and solution-based integrated advertising. Strong networking and bridge-building skills augment a rare ability to identify untapped opportunity and deliver winning, strategic creative solutions. A history of conceiving and selling programs to top brands, and creating a clear path to retainable and renewable business.

Michael Pratt

Chief Marketing Officer

Past: LEGO of America, Seneca Sports

A seasoned brand, retail and content marketing executive with a demonstrated history of success in the consumer goods and entertainment industry. Highly skilled in marketing ideation and management, customer insight, consumer products, advertising, licensing and sales.

Collin Millington

Chief Sales Officer
Past: Cox Communications, Tribune Media, ID Media
A strategic marketing, promotional partnerships and media sales executive, skilled in creating concepts that leverage brand positioning through successful cross-platform offerings, by using integrated media, original content, emerging digital platforms, new technologies and experiential activations that connect to the audience in an authentic and inventive way.

CAT NUWER

Vice President of Publicity
Past: DC Comics, Haese & Wood PR
Publicity and marketing expert specialized in entertainment and publishing PR, skilled in developing and executing publicity plans with the ultimate goal of raising positive brand awareness and building and maintaining strong fanbases. Adept at writing press releases and placing announcements and stories with top-tier outlets, including Hollywood trade press, national newspapers, and high level pop culture sites. Experienced in talent relations and working with creators to share their stories and elevate their projects.

Jeremy Atkins

VP of Business Development

Past: Dark Horse Comics, Lion Forge, Rogue Ales, Z2 Comics

Driven PR, marketing and business professional with a proven ability to establish and maintain fruitful relationships across all verticals of business. A natural born networker, with the ability to navigate a changing media and business landscape to identify and prioritize key figures for increasing the reach of a brand at both the consumer and trade level. In a career of over two decades, Atkins has overseen campaigns for some of the top entertainment brands in the world, including GorillazHellboy, James BondStar Wars, and Umbrella Academy. His work has previously earned him profiles in the Wall Street Journal and the influential Ready Made Magazine.

Staff

President and Founder

Kris Longo

Chief Marketing Officer

Michael Pratt

Chief Sales Officer

Collin Millington

Director of Partnerships

Michael Eisenberg

Operations Director

Barb Rogers

Content Marketing Director

Michelle Longo

Sales Manager

Marc Zenker

Advisors

Project Manager

Martha Donato

Marketing and Promotion

Syndee Barwick

Transmedia and Business Development

Rich Johnson

Publicist

Lys Fulda

Audience Development

David Gallaher

Why You Should Work With Us

Veteran marketing and sales staff

Over 60 years of combined experience selling, promoting and developing geek-centric media brands.

Dedicated staff devoted to evangelizing at the brand and product level

Ability to leverage MF’s deep partnership list

Press list of over 2,000+ consumer, trade and comic industry journalism contacts

Consistent placements in major outlets like Hollywood Reporter, Gizmodo, Buzzfeed, Screen Rant, Comicbook.com, Games Radar, Newsarama, CBR, The Beat, Dread Central and many more

Press expansion into technology and content verticals wherever possible

Success with offbeat outlets, like Nerdbot, On The Spot, The Jovenshire, to name a few

Let’s Create The Story

We’re ready to make amazing things happen for You.