Meet the Team
We are passionate about online marketing and are committed to delivering meaningful business results for our clients. Below are brief bios of our leadership team. You can also click the “Talk to an expert” button on the right to engage with team members for each of our Solutions.

Thad Kahlow
CEO
Thad Kahlow is the CEO of BusinessOnline and is responsible for the entrepreneurial leadership of all operations. His visionary leadership-style has helped propel the company into the online marketing spotlight; making the Agency one of the nation’s leading online marketing companies. He focuses on the alignment of business goals and user needs so our client’s can make business decisions guided by information that matters. Thad’s “roll-up-the-sleeves and get it done” attitude coupled with a commitment to client relationships allows him to effectively direct the agency to support large engagements with sophisticated, global clients.
Thad is considered an authority on online marketing. He has presented at numerous industry and executive conferences including the DMA, HTMA, AMT and Online Marketing Summit, is published in leading trade and business publications like iMedia, ERA and B2B Magazine, and was one of the original founding members of the SEMPO institute.
Article: “Educate Girls, change the world”, a trip to Haiti
Whitepaper: The Great Marketing Opportunity

Richard Roberts
Senior Vice President
Rich has over 20 years of experience in planning, building and managing cutting-edge integrated marketing programs for some of the smartest companies in the world. His career balances senior agency roles and senior client-side roles. On the agency side, while at BusinessOnline and Grey Interactive he worked with world-class brands including HP, NetApp, Intuit, Dell, Honeywell, and Sybase. On the client side, he has been a CMO or VP Marketing for big online brands such as CNET and ZipRealty and for start-ups like Zing, Callwave and SendMe Mobile. This gives him the unique ability to deeply understand his clients’ needs and to ensure that the agency delivers on meeting these needs.

Todd Cohen
SVP, Client Services
For more than 18 years, Todd has been developing integrated marketing campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands including Hewlett-Packard, Disney, Nortel and Sony to name a few. Todd has a unique background spanning both client side and agency side, with agency icons like McCann Worldgroup and FCB on his resume, along with deep experience in offline (advertising, brand development, PR, POS) and online marketing that allows him to consistently drive sales for clients in all industries by finding the right mix of medium, message, and approach.

