Built under pressure.
Careers spent shipping against deadlines that never moved, for clients who counted the results.
Paxton Harmon
Founder & CEO KentuckyBackground
A decade of building things that have to work.
Paxton Harmon founded Centurion Media Group and stays directly involved in client work, from the first strategy conversation through launch and beyond. He brings more than a decade of digital and marketing experience to every engagement, and a simple standard: build something that produces a measurable result, then be accountable for the number it produces.
When he is not advising Centurion clients, Paxton is a political consultant to high-profile candidates and political action committees across the United States. Politics is the least forgiving environment in marketing. Election day does not move. Fundraising targets are either hit or missed. Every message is picked apart by opponents, press, and voters at the same time. Much of his career has been spent inside some of the most high-profile political consulting firms in the country, on races where budgets were large and the reporting was unforgiving. That environment enforces a particular discipline: build fast, build it correctly the first time, and measure everything.
The role has always been part advisor, part creative. Candidates and principals bring him in for a straight read on what is working and what is not, then to shape the message, the look, and the digital operation around that answer. He is a creative at heart, and he holds the work to one rule: nothing reaches a client until it is the best work he can produce.
Centurion Media Group applies that discipline to business. The work looks nothing like a campaign, but the standard is identical. A website is not a brochure. It is infrastructure that either brings in business or does not.
Paxton is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Political Science.
Reading Harmon
President, Sales ColoradoBackground
A decade of building teams that scale.
Reading Harmon has spent the last ten years in sales leadership. In that time he has scaled teams from a handful of people into full organizations, led across both mid-market and enterprise segments, and built teams that operated across borders and time zones. Most recently he built and scaled sales teams at Motive Technologies.
Most of that was learned by doing rather than inherited from someone else’s playbook. Building a sales process while the target is still moving is a different discipline than running one somebody else already stabilized, and it is considerably less forgiving. The motion changes between mid-market and enterprise, and the leadership has to change with it.
The lesson that held at every stage: build a team that is strong today and still works at the next size up. Headcount is easy to add. Process that survives the next stage of growth is not.
More recently that has meant putting data and automation to work rather than solving every problem by adding people. He is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, and the pitch is the same as the work: no fluff, no spin, and a straight answer on what is working and what is not.
Pranay Patel
Head of Growth, UK London, UKBackground
Fluent in both the data and the client.
Pranay Patel leads Centurion Media Group’s growth in the United Kingdom from London. His background runs across technology, client relations, business operations, marketing, and the creative industries. The common thread is the same in every one of them: understand what the client actually needs, then prove with data whether it is working.
He trained on both sides of that problem. Pranay holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University and a Master of Management Analytics from Queen’s University. That pairing is rarer than it should be: someone as comfortable with how a site is built and measured as with the commercial case for building it.
Most of his work has been client-facing. Managing projects end to end, analyzing performance data, and working across teams to turn a business problem into something that ships. The creative work taught him what makes something worth looking at. The analytics taught him how to tell whether anyone did.
For UK clients, that means one point of contact on their side of the Atlantic who understands the build, the numbers, and the commercial reason for both. No jargon, no hand-offs, and a straight answer on what the data says.