About Us
Where Bold Ideas Meet Smart Strategy
We are a strategy-first, business development agency serving clients across the country since 1980. We partner with organizations that need strategic innovation, internal alignment, and external growth by creating better plans, crafting better messages, and delivering better results. Our mission is to serve our clients and to help our clients serve their internal teams and their customers better.
Our Approach
We believe in thinking BIG and approaching each client relationship with the question: “How might we help?” This philosophy has guided us in partnering with both B2B and B2C companies across various industries, including financial services, manufacturing, education, hospitality, nonprofit, automotive, retail, and consumer packaged goods, to name a few.
Let's Elevate Your Business
Ready to tackle the challenges standing between your goals and your success? Our strategy-first approach will break down business barriers, turn them into opportunities and propel your business forward.
Skip Carney
Founder/CEO
Skip Carney, our founder, CEO, and Chief Sunshine Officer, started the agency as a recording studio. It quickly evolved into a full-service agency as he asked clients "how might we help?" He has always believed in diving headfirst into a client’s business to look at it from all angles to ensure the best outcome. Over the years, we have partnered with B2B and B2C companies across a variety of industries: financial, manufacturing, education, hospitality, nonprofit, healthcare, automotive, retail, CPG, and more. Skip built the agency by thinking BIG while remaining rooted in the belief that "we live to serve." This is how we continue to approach all relationships.
Jessica McKnight
President
Jessica Carney McKnight was born into advertising, starring in several clients' newspaper, radio, and TV commercials as a child. She graduated with a Journalism and Mass Communications degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go Heels!). Making her home in the Triad, she worked for many years within top agencies in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC, across B2B and B2C companies and verticals. In 2018, she joined CarneyCo to lead the family business. Today, Jessica focuses on building strong relationships through our solid, strategy-first approach, developing new business, and improving agency operations.
