Welcome.
Alipes is a full-service, digital-media strategy and integration firm. We help our clients dominate the digital space for their cause, organization, campaign, or company. Our strategic and creative work clarifies and drives message and mission. Our production and development work delivers exceptional organizational and social media growth. Our proprietary tools dominate the conversation space, expand your resources, manage it all, and win.
We helped Americans
for Peace Now transition to the digital space.
Hagit Ofran, one of the coolest people we've met, works for APN by risking her life mapping settlements in the West Bank. We thought the whole world should see her work. The result: a cool app, and a ton of amazing news coverage.
Google likes us.
We love Deval.
He was our breakthrough client. We ran his entire digital portfolio.
In '06 we worked with David Plouffe and David Axelrod to get Obama's campaign off the ground.
We still have the very first sign for Barack Obama for President hanging in our office.
We are thinkers first.
We are fun to work with, and when you hire us, you work with the senior team who did the work and accomplished what you see on this site.
Bios
Charles SteelFisher
Charles is the co-founder and President of Alipes, a Boston-based digital strategy firm whose clients range from Fortune 500 companies to leading politicians to international non-profit organizations. In 2006, he served as the director of new media for Deval Patrick for Governor where he introduced revolutionary online fund raising and organizing systems that helped build the biggest grassroots organization in the history of Massachusetts politics. He was subsequently retained by David Plouffe and Obama for America to coordinate the launch of the 2010 presidential campaign's new media efforts. Before forming Alipes CME in 2003, Charles worked independently, creating digital media and education strategies for clients such as The Gillette Company and MIT. He has an MFA in writing from the University of Arizona and a BA in history from the University of Rochester.
Joe Samet
Joe is the Operations Director and co-founder of Alipes. With more than 14 years of account and project management experience, Joe has successfully worked on a wide breadth of projects ranging from enterprise systems with Fortune 500 companies to guiding non-profits in stretching their budgets using the latest technologies and business processes. Joe is currently learning Amharic and tolerance for all mankind. He has his own sandals, too.
Pace Willisson
Pace designed telecommunications, industrial process control, and robotic software for 25 years before starting to apply some of the same ideas to promote community involvement in politics during the 2004 election season. He joined up with Charles in 2006 and created the Community Tool, a piece of software that was integral to the successful campaign of Deval Patrick for Governor of Massachusetts. He works with each of our clients to discover how to combine the rich resources of existing software systems with a bit of technology creation to support their digital strategy goals. His command of internet technology is based not only on his SB degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT, but also on his foundational contributions to open source operating systems, compilers, and networking software.
Darlene Heikkinen
Dar has 15+ years of experience in marketing communications as a manager and consultant for a wide range of organizations. Prior to joining Alipes in 2007, she worked for the Deval Patrick for Governor campaign, where she managed campaign communications across a range of media. During the last four years at Alipes, Dar has planned and implemented digital advertising programs for statewide elections as well as national organizations. Additionally, she has experience in event planning and management.
Jason Tennis
Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Jason has a unique and powerful eye that can crush atomic structures, gathering the raw stuff of existence together into a stark amalgam, then cast it into a new matrix fashioned only from the gossamer material of his very psyche.
Keith Koslowsky
Keith specializes in producing online content at the speed of the web. He has produced online videos for political and issue based campaigns. He believes the little guy matters and that the internet is an efficient means to aggregate a movement. Keith has a dual BS from Northeastern University (Journalism and Film Studies) and a Master's degree from Emerson College (Broadcast).
Josh Gee
Josh helps nonprofits, political campaigns and major corporations find their voice online, create engaged communities, and achieve their communications objectives. Before joining Alipes, Josh served as New Media Director for Governor Deval Patrick’s successful reelection campaign in 2010 and worked in the New York Public Affairs practice at Edelman where he specialized in digital strategy, media relations and Environmental PR. He likes to wear ties. Twitter | Blog | Linkedin
Luisa Armstrong
Luisa is a digital strategist at Alipes, where she works mainly with healthcare and non-profit clients. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in political science and French, and spent a semester in Paris studying at the Sorbonne. Prior to joining Alipes, Luisa worked in government affairs and public relations.
Websites are great, but conversations are better.
Call us at 617.303.1045 or email us at josh@alipescme.com (josh checks his email the most). We guarantee that a single conversation with us, in person, will open up the world of digital media and integration in ways you never thought possible.