Hello, we are Dune7.
A digital strategy and brand marketing agency focused on growing companies that are reinventing the way we experience and move about the world.
Why Dune7?
Proven Results
You have KPIs to hit. We get it. The Dune7 team has scaled startups, launched new products, defined new categories, and increased qualified traffic for companies like yours.
Sustainable Strategies
We’re laser focused on organic channels and don’t touch paid platforms. We pride ourselves on work that stands the test of time — providing a foundation for your company to build on.
Domain Expertise
We possess 30+ years of travel and technology industry expertise. We leverage our relationships with partners, platforms, and media to get results for you, our clients.
Data Obsessed
We’re left brain before right. We take a data-informed approach to every project and test and validate our strategies to ensure we hit KPI’s every step of the way.
Right Team, Right Project
With a vast network of top talent — like engineers, technical writers, and creative directors — we create customized teams to specifically match every project and client.
Brand Leaders
We’ve been there as clients before, managing revenue-generating marketing programs for some of the industry’s top brands.
Meet our Founders
Tom Buckley
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-founder
Tom has over 15 years’ experience in digital marketing, publishing and technology, working at both start-ups and corporations – including Whatsonwhen.com, Frommer’s, and Random House.
Tom recently headed up global business development for content marketing agency Melt Content, servicing consumer travel brands Expedia, New York Times (Times Journeys) and Royal Caribbean, plus B2B clients such as Expedia Affiliate Network and Intent Media.
Tom was a founding member of a digital agency Whatsonwhen.com that, under its new parent, was acquired by Google. Tom has also led sales and U.S. operations for AO, an enterprise software firm focused on merchandising solutions for multi-day tour operators and airline vacation businesses. Additionally, he advises VR Tours and activity experience platform 360 Stories.
Tom, a native of the U.K., recently relocated back to Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two daughters, after a three-year stint in Miami.
Jared Alster
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-founder
Jared is a marketing executive with a 15+ year career working with Fortune 500’s and SMB’s in travel and tech. Jared started his career with advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, working on global brand campaigns for Yahoo! and Six Flags.
Since then, Jared has enjoyed over a decade in the travel industry, holding multiple senior-level marketing roles along the way. He spent five years running U.S. marketing at adventure travel pioneer Intrepid Travel, during a period of hyper-growth for the company. Jared then went onto join Travelstride, a leading venture-backed marketplace for multi-day tours, as co-founder and Vice President, Marketing.
After returning to New York from Northern California, Jared led the east coast office for luxury tour operator Cox & Kings. Prior to Dune7, Jared was Vice President, Marketing at Rodo, a mobile-first car leasing startup backed by IAC.
Jared holds numerous advisory roles with consumer and enterprise startups and lives in New York with his family and yellow lab, Homer.
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