About Us

Lead Media Partners is well know for its “Brain” but really there are plenty of dedicated, inspired brains that keep us moving forward.

Chandler Horsley

Chandler Horsley

Founder & CEO

Confident that there was a better way to deliver quality leads, Chandler left his job as COO of an education lead company to start Lead Media Partners. With a focus on quality lead channels, technology that works and a healthy growth strategy, Chandler heads up the web’s fastest growing education portal, DegreeSearch.org.

Alan Whitaker

Alan Whitaker

Founder & CTO

A veteran of data crunching for big enterprise, Alan embraced the challenge to boost lead performance through technology. He has developed a borderline obsession with the care and feeding of Lead Media Partners’ predictive algorithms. You'll find him in the lab with our research brains.

Chand Cannon

Chad Cannon

Client Manager

As Client Manager, Chad works with the schools listed on DegreeSearch.org to improve their enroll rate and meet their lead goals. Armed with a strong background in education and analytics, Chad helps each school identify and take advantage of the lead mix that works best for them.

Howard Freiss

Howard Freiss

Client Manager

With a background in finance and project management, Howard works hard to keep lead flow strong and lead prices affordable for our education clients. At 6′6″ Howard literally oversees all efforts to meet each school’s needs, and keep them happy and cheering for more.

Shane Jarrett

Shane Jarrett

Operations Manager

In addition to his duties as Operations Manager, Shane Jarrett is a classic wise guy and takes pride in badgering his co-workers and disrupting productivity in general. Though this would at first seem an ironic contrast to his title, we’re confident there is method to his madness.

Kristin Jolley

Kristin Jolley

Media Director

Mixing marketing savvy and data junky, Kristin leads our media team in placing and optimizing our online traffic. Her 10+ years of expertise in online lead generation make her media plans and marketing strategies forces to be reckoned with.

Joseph LeBaron

Joseph LeBaron

Creative Director

Every month, millions of visitors to DegreeSearch.org see Joseph’s work — he creates its compelling ads and landing pages. What visitors won’t see are the endless hours of user testing, redesign and results-driven analysis that go into every new page. It’s creativity, with results.

Chris Wyckoff

Chris Wyckoff

Technology Lead

As technical lead, Chris manages the development efforts on DegreeSearch.org and for Lead Media Partner’s lead management system. He has several years of experience architecting software systems for online marketing companies. Prior to LMP, Chris led the development of the lead management and business intelligence systems at Alliance Health.