RENEE PERKINS
Founder | Marketing Director
Renee was born and raised on Nantucket Island. Growing up alongside the unique market that is Nantucket Island, she learned invaluable business and branding skills working for many local companies and industries. From there, Renee went to Bentley University where she was a four-year college athlete on the Bentley University Women's Soccer Team. She graduated with two majors in Marketing and Environmental Sustainability with a minor in Sports Business Management.
During her time in college, she began managing a handful of different businesses around Nantucket and Greater Boston, helping them with brand management, website design, email marketing, and social media. It was during this time where she realized this was her passion and honing in on these skills, she began building the foundation for Nantucket Island Marketing.
MARLEY HENDERSON
Marketing Manager
Marley grew up in the small town of Ipswich, MA, where she learned to appreciate the value and understand the importance of small businesses. Her love for creativity transferred to her college career at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she earned a degree in Brand Strategy and Visual Advertising.
Through her experience in college and freelance work post-college, she focused on her passion for brand management and marketing. She's skilled in brand strategy, social media management, digital design, and website design. As much as she appreciates aesthetics, she also understands the significance of reaching an analytical target. Marley is eager to use her skills and help small businesses meet their marketing objectives!
SARA MURPHY
Graphic Designer
Sara is a graphic designer and illustrator from Natick, MA. She graduated with majors in Communication Design and Mathematics from Elon University. While design is her passion and career, she loves numbers and has an analytical brain. She has experience designing logos, branding, and graphics for clients during her time with Live Oak Communications. Sara has also worked on similar projects while freelancing over the past two years.
EMMA BOUSHIE
Marketing Intern
Emma is a junior at Bentley University studying Marketing with a double minor in Computer Information Systems and Information Design and Corporate Communications. She was introduced to content creation, graphic design, and brand strategy in Summer 2020, when she worked as the Surgical Marketing intern on the Ablation Brand team at Hologic, Inc. This allowed her to not only become familiar with how to communicate and create a strong team dynamic in a virtual setting, but gave her the opportunity to define her passion: developing new ideas to advance businesses potential through technology, design, and social media. Emma is driven by health and wellness, just recently completing her first team marathon, and is so excited for the “course” ahead of her.
GRACE RAYNOR
Marketing Intern
Grace is currently a junior at Bentley University studying Computer Information Systems with a minor in Information Design and Corporate Communications. She has always found passion in both graphic design and content creation and over the course of her time at Bentley has grown to love it even more. Through different courses and organizations she’s a part of, she has gained hands-on experiences that has drawn her to this role with Nantucket Island Marketing. She is driven by both technology and analytical skills that she has developed while taking her major courses. Grace is looking forward to applying these skills throughout her internship experience!
