WHO WE ARE
Align Strategy Group is a Product Marketing consulting firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We work collaboratively with companies to build their brands, develop differentiated new product strategies, find new areas of growth and consumer relevance, and launch products to market.
Monica Brown is a dynamic marketer and product strategist with over 20 years of experience. She has a passion for building innovative brands for parents, children and educators and a deep expertise in all areas of business growth, consumer insights, marketing, product strategy and launch.
Prior to founding Align Strategy Group, Monica spent 14 years in the toy, education and entertainment industries. As Vice President of Product Marketing at LeapFrog and then VTech, she led the launch of popular educational systems such as the LeapPad Learning Tablet, which won multiple Toy of the Year Awards globally, as well as the LeapStart Reading System, the Leapster Game System, and more. In addition, Monica led the launch of LeapFrog's App Center, a proprietary digital marketplace with 1,000+ apps, and LeapFrog Academy, LeapFrog's first mobile software subscription service. Prior to LeapFrog, Monica worked in Marketing at Thomson Learning, a top educational publisher.
Monica has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and dual degrees in Literature and Psychology from UC Santa Cruz.