Creating Clarity. Inspiring Action.
CarneyCo is a strategy-first, full-service marketing communications agency in North Carolina. We have been serving clients with award-winning, innovative solutions since 1980.
We live to serve and to help our clients serve better. How might we help you?
Leadership
Skip Carney
Founder/CEO
Skip Carney, our founder, CEO, and Chief Sunshine Officer, started the agency as a recording studio which quickly evolved into a full-service agency by asking clients "how might we help?" He has always believed in diving headfirst into a client’s business to look at it from all angles, not just marketing, 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. He built the agency by thinking BIG, 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 client relationships, agency operations, new business, and is the shop’s visioneer.
Steve Dunkley
Creative Director
Steve Dunkley joined the team in 2024. He has worked for large, prominent agencies in Chicago and San Francisco and led mid-size shops in Greensboro and Charlotte, NC. Steve has developed and orchestrated award-winning campaigns across dozens of categories, including Tourism, Technology, CPG, Apparel, Financial Services, Home Products, and Higher Ed. His primary responsibilities are leading CarneyCo’s creative group, enhancing current client work, and developing new business.
