Our Team

An Overview

At Oratium, our team is built on one belief: communication should drive measurable lift.

We’ve learned through experience that real impact doesn’t come from surface-level tactics like posture or eye contact, it comes from a message engineered to be retellable, repeatable, and scalable.

Our leaders are dedicated to helping organizations transform how they communicate. Through the principles and processes at the core of Oratium’s Sales Lift framework, we equip teams to build messages that travel, influence, and generate results.

Our Leadership:

Mark Bourgeois

Mark Bourgeois is Executive Director at Oratium.

Mark has designed and given thousands of presentations across his career, developing methods and techniques that he has taught to colleagues and clients.

His written and oral communications background includes working as a legislative aide in the United States Senate, a reporter with The Tampa Bay Times, a management consultant with Booz-Allen, and head of Asia for DebtX. Additionally, he worked in Content Delivery within the Financial Services practice of the Corporate Executive Board, where he created new research and presentations, and trained others in presentation design and delivery.

A husband and father of three, Mark has a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale University and a Bachelor’s from Tulane University.

mark@oratium.com

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Mark Bourgeois

Executive Director

Sean Thom

Sean Thom is the Chief Financial Officer of Oratium.

Sean has a Master’s degree in Accounting from Walden University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity Western University. Prior to joining Oratium, he worked in the nonprofit world for several years.

Outside of work, Sean is passionate about his faith, his family, and football (go Broncos!). He and his wife live in Montana with their three young children.

sean@oratium.com

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Sean Thom

Chief Financial Officer

Will Ash

Chief Revenue Officer

As Chief Revenue Officer, Will leads Oratium’s growth strategy and oversees all aspects of revenue generation and commercial development.

will@oratium.com

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Will Ash

Chief Revenue Officer

Our Consultants:

Jonathan Dietrich

Senior Director

JD is a Senior Director at Oratium. He works primarily with companies and business executives to improve their communication skills across a wide range of industries and business functions – including Sales, Strategy, Market Insights and Internal Communications, as well as TED speaker coaching. To span such a diverse terrain, JD focuses on becoming a student of the client’s business and their key outcomes in order to best advise them on how to apply Oratium’s doctrine to achieve their desired results.

With over 20 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies globally–including a three-year stint in Sydney, Australia working with Asia Pacific organizations–JD brings the balance of business savvy and youthful passion to all of his client engagements.

The most critical of those engagements are with his wife, Jennifer, who is a communications consultant and a total Oratium convert. From Washington, D.C. to Sydney and back to D.C. again, they now live in Saint Michaels, Maryland-on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. They’ve enjoyed a life well-travelled. Adventure, both personal and professional, is often just a plane (or car) ride away. Just the way they like it.

jd@oratium.com

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Jonathan Dietrich

Senior Director

Michael Hubble

Managing Director

Michael Hubble is Managing Director at Oratium. He has spent the past 20 years creating and presenting best-practice research for senior executives of health systems and corporations.

Most recently, Michael was a Managing Director and national spokesperson for The Advisory Board, a health care consultancy serving 2,400 of America’s hospitals and health systems. His areas of focus were health system strategy, health system economics, and health policy.

Before joining the Advisory Board, Michael spent 11 years with the Corporate Executive Board, a leading management consultancy. At CEB, he worked with over 500 clients, including more than half of the Fortune 100, advising executive teams and boards of directors on organizational strategy, change management, and marketing strategy.

Michael received an MBA from the University of North Carolina and a BA from the University of Georgia, and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, their two children, and various Basset Hounds.

michael@oratium.com

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Michael Hubble

Managing Director

Sebastian Mathews

Senior Director

Sebastian Mathews is Senior Director at Oratium, advising clients on message design. He draws from strategy, finance, and program experience across numerous industry sectors within the private sector, as well as to government and non-profit entities, advising executives and boards on growth strategies to scale impact.

Previously in Seattle as senior director at an international non-profit, he developed strategic partnerships and also co-founded and is board director of a global environmental alliance, now the world’s largest of its kind, and president of its US chapter. Prior to that he was senior manager at an international accounting firm and strategy manager at a top 10 US airport. In New York City, he advised and co-founded international startups and in Atlanta, as program director for economic development on a joint initiative with the United Nations Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR) and the City of Atlanta, he guided city leaders from over 50 countries worldwide to action the UN development goals. In South Africa, as principal at a management consultancy, he led teams on enterprise transformations, as economic advisor to a global strategy consultancy he supported a presidential initiative, and as vice-president at a corporate advisory firm, he advised corporations on strategic transactions in emerging markets. He started his career in technology with a global resources firm.

sebastian@oratium.com

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Sebastian Mathews

Senior Director

Our Support Staff:

Jerry Wall

Senior Product Manager

Jerry Wall is the Senior Product Manager at Oratium. In this role, he oversees Oratium’s Product Management and Product Development functions, helping to design and refine products that will equip our customers to design and deliver world-class messaging.

Jerry has a Bachelor’s degree from Crown College and Master’s from Bethel Theological Seminary. At home he can be found mowing the grass, shoveling the driveway, or tucked into a good historical biography.

jerry@oratium.com

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Jerry Wall

Senior Product Manager

Meet the Founder, Tim Pollard

Tim founded Oratium in 2011. As CEO, he leads the ongoing development of Oratium’s intellectual property, as well as leading all major client relationships.

He is the author of two best-selling books, The Compelling Communicator: Mastering the Art and Science of Exceptional Presentation Design and Mastering the Moment: Perfecting the Skills and Processes of Exceptional Presentation Delivery.