Alexandria Data Firm Is Among Best Places To Work in Region: Survey

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Silverback Strategies has made one of the four lists of the Washington Business Journal’s 2016 Best Places to Work. Honorees were announced on Thursday, June 9, in a gala at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

Silverback Strategies is a digital performance marketing agency based in Old Town Alexandria. The company currently has 21 employees who work on paid media, search engine optimization, analytics and content marketing campaigns for clients in Washington, Northern Virginia, Maryland and beyond.

Silverback is one of three Alexandria-based companies to make the 2016 Best Places to Work lists. The company is ranked #13 of 25 companies that made the weekly newspaper's list of small companies.

“Our workplace is high-energy, fun and intensely collaborative - in fact, we depend on new ideas and innovative thinking from every employee, every day,” Neil Welsh, founder and president of Silverback Strategies, said in a statement. “It’s a real honor to know that our team feels so strongly about the environment, culture and energy that they’ve created here at Silverback.”

For 12 years, the Washington Business Journal has published its lists of Best Places to Work at extra-large, large, mid-size and small companies in 17 different industries throughout the Washington, D.C. region. The four lists for 2016 appear in the paper's June 10 issue.

Rankings are determined by an independent agency that bases its scores on employee survey responses to categories such as team effectiveness, trust in senior leadership and alignment with company goals. 

To learn more about Silverback Strategies, click here.  

Image (from left): Neil Welsh, founder and president of Silverback Strategies; Allyson Cochran, director of business development; Andrew Nelson, director of paid media; and Louis Belpaire, director of analytics.