Our Team
Dorothy Banzon – Principal, Creative Director
Dorothy Banzon brings more than 20 years of experience solving marketing challenges for multi-national corporations as well as small businesses and start-ups. She built her extensive portfolio at leading national advertising and design agencies based in New York. Her experience as Lead Designer for Information Builders Inc. developed her ability to manage and solve the varied challenges of a growing technology company. Dorothy combines careful listening and strong marketing skills to deliver carefully crafted, targeted solutions. Her mission is to ensure that your communications are clean, fresh and engaging.
Dorothy is also passionate about the environment and developed the Stop! Think Green campaign to help move people from thinking green to acting green. She is currently active with the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce and participates with the Environmental Committee. She is also actively involved in her church and serves regularly with Passion for Community. She resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and 2 children.
Don Cranford – Principal, Director of Technology
Don Cranford is a web strategist and developer based just outside of Fort Worth, Texas. He founded Katalyst Solutions in 2004 to assist businesses in succeeding online through website development, online strategies, and search engine optimization.
Since the early 1990’s, Don has held various positions in Marketing, Product Development and Product Management in the Internet and Telecommunications Industry and has worked with teams with members from around the world. He now specializes in open source website development using systems such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress.
Don is active in his church and community and recently relocated to Texas from Northern Virginia with his wife and three children.
Randy Sly – Principal, Director of Content Strategy
Randy Sly is a writer and content management specialist who founded WriteView Communications, LLC, in 2006 to provide content for media, marketing communications. With a background in radio and TV broadcasting, he has been continuously involved in the field of journalism, marketing communications and multi-media for over three decades.
Clients have included small businesses, corporations and non-profit organizations, both nationally and internationally. He has provided content development for such projects as websites, speeches, white papers, feature articles, brochures, newsletters, eBooks and ads as well as scripts for radio, TV, film, video and multi-image.
Randy is committed to providing written content and creative campaigns that are clear, concise and connect with the target audience. He has a reputation for crafting vibrant and powerful messages that can draw out a response.
He is also a published author, having written for a number of national periodicals and news syndicates in addition to serving as a major contributing author and editor for a multi-volume encyclopedic series.
He and his wife, Sandy, live in Potomac Falls, VA where they are very active in their local church. They have three grown children. Randy also serves as the volunteer SKYWARN Amateur Radio Advisor for the Washington/Baltimore Weather Forecast Office of the National Weather Service.
Client Testimonial
“Katalyst Creative Group is a team of true professionals. They blended their three areas of expertise (design, content creation and SEO) to build a beautiful and functional website for my company. I was more than satisfied with the design elements of the site and equally satisfied with how our site shot up the internet search rankings in just a few short weeks after they completed the website. I feel we have a far superior site than most of our competition and my hat goes off to the team at Katalyst Creative Group for making it happen.”
Collin Wheeler,
123JUNK LLC