Search Changed Forever. Here’s How Your Business Can Win. (Virtual)

Strato Doumanis is co-owner of MediaCutlet, where he helps businesses rebuild the systems behind how customers find them. He sees potential in complex systems and reworks them to perform better. He turned a 1990s home into a fully connected smart home, and he brings the same approach to organizations: untangle the complexity, align the teams, and build something that actually works.

That mindset is exactly what search requires right now. As AI-powered answers replace traditional blue-link results, getting found depends on more than keywords. It takes a clear brand story, a technically sound website, and content that AI tools can understand, trust, and recommend. Strato works across all of it, from SEO and answer engine optimization (AEO) strategy to site architecture, structured data, and the code underneath.

He can sit in a room with executives, marketers, and developers and make sure they all understand each other. Strategy, stakeholder alignment, technical architecture, and code. He does it all, and he makes sure the work translates into real visibility and new business.

Kevin Whitmer spent 12 years as the top editor of The Star-Ledger and NJ.com, one of the largest local news operations in the country. His work there was part of three Pulitzer Prizes, 23 regional Emmy Awards, and virtually every major national journalism honor. He led his newsroom through the shift from print to digital and helped build one of the most-read local news websites in the U.S.

Kevin owns one skill above all others: how to walk into any room, understand what's really at stake, and figure out how to reach the right digital audiences with the right message. At MediaCutlet, he puts that skill to work for clients on engagements where digital audience building and storytelling, executive credibility, project management, and decades of industry relationships move the needle.

For founders, executives, and teams across North Carolina's tech community, Kevin brings a practical, no-nonsense approach to telling your story and getting it in front of the people who matter. When he sits down with your leadership team, the conversation gets real, fast.