Leadership Team
SmarterAutomation.com was co-founded by two individuals with over 53 years of combined leadership experience in the technology and business.
Meet the Leadership Team
About Sharon
Co-Founder/CEO
Sharon Hayes is a growth architect and business strategist.
She currently serves as CEO of Domainate Incorporated (the parent company of SmarterAutomation.com) and Venture Asset Group Incorporated. She is also the chairwoman of multiple corporate boards. With business experience spanning over 3 decades, Sharon has built over two dozen businesses with an impressive client roster that has included hundreds of well known corporate brands, educational institutions, politicians and celebrities. She has also worked extensively with organizations of all sizes on strategic growth objectives.
Sharon is extremely passionate about technology. In the mid-1990’s, she built a business focused on helping corporations and government agencies move from old-school workstations on mainframe computers to PC desktops focused on database creation and use. She then moved into the online world in 1998 creating an email list management company that utilized personalized email and web experiences with clients ranging from Porsche
to Tom Peters to IBM to CBS to American Standard. Her next big move was with a digital marketing agency focused on automating launches, lead
generation and more.
Sharon is a proud alumni of John Molson School of Business (Concordia University).
Sharon’s other passions include travel, cryptocurrency, domain names, gamification, continued learning, human design, guitar playing, charcuterie, and motivation research
About Steve
Co-Founder/President
Steve Jones is a branding, marketing and growth strategist helping businesses since 2004, currently serving as President of Domainate Incorporated (the parent company of SmarterAutomation.com). Having spearheaded thousands of growth initiatives across hundreds of businesses, Steve has been integral to taking many businesses to new levels of revenue and profit, having directly touched every facet of the online growth process at some point.
With a background in mathematics and programming, Steve takes a data-driven, analytical approach in working with businesses and specializes in discovering weak points of opportunity where simple improvements can massively increase the bottom line.
Steve is very passionate about staying on the leading edge of advancements in technology, in particular automation. He has helped many businesses automate their growth engines, integrate systems together to automate flow of data, and build complex automated email and SMS sequences to foster growth and retention.
Steve’s other passions include domain names, songwriting, tennis, and seeing the positive impact of small businesses he’s helped grow.