Meet the Team

Collin Canright

Collin is recognized for his ability to quickly grasp the value of an organization and to help lead them toward an ideal state in any given project. As a consultant, he is known for his ability to connect the dots between different parts of an organization and help align their differences in perspective from one part of an organization to another.

Canright’s managing partner, Collin helps organizations to market, sell, and develop business by helping them clearly communicate how they solve problems and provide value. He has worked with global financial institutions, community banks, hedge funds, FinTech startups, international IT firms, consulting firms, software developers, manufacturers, architecture and engineering firms, schools, associations, and publishers

He became fascinated with electronic banking and payments in the mid-1980s and continues to work with banks and financial technology firms. (See the FinTech Rising website for his posts on the future of money, banking, and payments.)

Collin has honed his leadership and relationship skills as an adjunct faculty member at the Wright Foundation, where he coaches emerging leaders and salespeople.

Christina Canright

Christina is president and co-founder, starting the firm with her husband Collin in their home after the birth of their daughter. Christina consults on networking, account relationships, and design.

Christina made her mark in communications as a publication designer and art director. She served as art director for Modern Salon magazine and designer for Bakery Production and Marketing, and Water Engineering and management.

In addition to providing vision and direction at Canright, Christina works as a coach and group leader ad the Wright Foundation.

Alexandra Sulack

By quickly understanding a client’s business and industry, Alexandra is able to provide thoughtful direction for marketing and communication strategies. As an Account Manager, her relationship skills and ability to quickly respond to and execute a client’s wishes, make her a valuable member of the Canright team

Alexandra is a graduate of North Park University, with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance. She believes communication is key to understanding and building relationships, whether that’s through her work at Canright, performing music, or advancing the lineage of vocal music through teaching.

Outside of her work with Canright, Alexandra runs and teaches at her own music studio in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago. She is an avid photographer specializing in headshots and stage photography.

Jessica Purdy

Jessica is an expert in breaking down complex topics and creating compelling, easy-to-follow content. With more than a decade of professional experience, our Senior Writer has worn many hats, doing everything from newspaper writing to web content, to technical manuals and white papers.

As a journalism graduate from the University of Mississippi, her core belief is that writing is a means to build understanding between people. Communicating complexities to as wide or as narrow an audience as is called for on any topic – from the highly technical to business communications – is her specialty.

She also has a lifelong passion for non-profit work and continues volunteer efforts in that field in addition to her work with Canright Communications.

Brianna Smith

From coordinating email marketing campaigns to writing content for the website, Brianna excels at juggling multiple projects and solving problems. She’s an excellent communicator and enjoys working on a team, which has helped her excel in the marketing field.

Brianna graduated from Grand Valley State University with a degree in International Relations and Professional Writing and a desire to help people and businesses grow. Over the years, our Marketing Coordinator has used her marketing and writing expertise to make this goal a reality.

When she isn’t busy working on email campaigns or boosting the SEO for the Canright website, Brianna enjoys honing her creative skills via personal writing projects and painting.

Mike McCullough

Mike works as a senior technical writer and excels at creating easy-to-understand content for internal teams and external customers. Over the years he’s worked with software development, product, and communications teams to support the software development process and to help end users get the information they need quickly.

Mike graduated from San Jose State University with a Bachelor’s degree in English. He also holds a UX Design Certification.

Asad Khan

With more than 5 years of interdisciplinary experience, Asad is a motivated technical writer who has worked in a large enterprise IT organization, a FinTech startup, and publishing organizations. He specializes in building working relationships with diverse personality styles and has produced documentation for APIs, internal knowledge bases, standard operating procedures, and end-user instruction.

Asad graduated from Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor’s degree in English, Rhetoric, and Literature.

Lola Akinmurele CSM, CSPO

Lola enjoys serving as a bridge between business experts and software developers to ensure that business and functional requirements are properly translated into user stories. She is a certified scrum manager and contributes to an agile environment in a flexible way. She coordinates with technical and business teams to help ensure strategy and execution alignment and excels at eliciting requirements, organizing, and leading scrum ceremonies, and grooming backlog.

Lola graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She also holds the following certifications and licenses: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).