It’s a different experience at brandpartners
At the helm of BrandPartners, is the husband and wife team, Melis & Dainon Steiner. With a 94% retention rate and 100% satisfaction score, our founders pride themselves on cultivating long-term relationships with clients to ensure consistency of vision, strategy, quality, and expertise. They set exceedingly high standards to ensure our clients feel proud of the work we do together. Read on to see how they came to be the ultimate BrandPartners.
Dainon Steiner, JD, MS
Co-Founder
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Dainon brings 15 years of experience in brand, strategy, communications, leadership training and education, marketing, and media production to BrandPartners clients. He specializes in developing brand and communication strategies for heavily regulated industries where his compliance and government relations skills are particularly valuable.
Dainon earned his master’s degree from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Policy and his law degree from The George Washington University Law School. He spent his early twenties immersed in politics and law, working on Capitol Hill in the US House of Representatives, in state government, and as a lobbyist in DC before becoming the Executive Director of the largest wildlife rescue and rehabilitation organization in the US.
Education
JD
George Washington University Law School
Thurgood Marshall Scholar
MS, International Relations & Public Policy
Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Public Policy
Graduated with Honors
BA - Politics
University of California, Irvine
Graduated with Honors
Punahou High School
Honolulu, Hawaii
Melis Steiner, MBA
Co-Founder
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With over 17 years of executive-level experience in strategy, branding, communications, marketing, and creative direction, Melis has helped dozens of organizations - from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies - build meaningful, engaging brands.
Melis has worked across a wide range of industries and with the public and private sectors, but technology (SaaS, AI, ML, data analytics, & hardware) has been a consistent focus since the beginning of her career. She has collaborated with partners like Google and Autodesk and worked in-house as the commercial brand strategy lead for Intel.
Melis is driven by the relationships she builds and the pride that her clients take in themselves and their brands after working with BrandPartners.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Rice University
Concentrations: Marketing, Management Consulting, Global Business Strategy
Scholarship Recipient: Rice Business Scholars & Harry Gorden Award
B.S. - Criminology
University of California, Irvine
Punahou High School
Honolulu, Hawaii
SPECIALTIES
Our team specializes in the technology, healthcare, education, AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), e-commerce, and entertainment industries, working with clients ranging from Inc. 500 recipients to public figures and Fortune 50 companies.
IN THE MEDIA
ABC
AECbytes
Bloomberg
Condé Nast Traveler
ConstructionNext
(formerly Roofing & Exteriors)
Elle
Forbes
Fox Sports
Inc. Magazine
InStyle
Marie Claire
NBC Sports Network
People
Roofing Contractor
The Hollywood Reporter
US Weekly
Vanidades
Women’s Health