Meet the PPC Account Management Team
Pauline Jakober, PPC Director 
Pauline Jakober is founder of Group Twenty Seven. As director of PPC, Pauline oversees online advertising strategy and implementation for each client Group Twenty Seven serves.
In her role, Pauline leads the strategic planning for client accounts throughout the duration of the relationship, as well as heads client service to ensure each account gets the attention it deserves.
Pauline brings with her 20 years of marketing experience that spans disciplines with an expertise in paid search. Her professional experience is rooted in traditional marketing communications, and evolved to the digital medium in the early years of web marketing.
Pauline’s passion for online advertising, client service and return on investment fueled her launch of Group Twenty Seven in 2010. She quickly certified the company as a Google Partner as one of many first steps in ensuring the company stays on the leading edge of paid search.
In an effort to give back to the professional community, Pauline co-founded the SEMNE group in 2006, a professional organization for online marketers in New England that still operates today. She is also a regular contributor to Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Land and an occasional speaker at local and international industry events, such as SMX (Search Marketing Expo).
Pauline holds a master’s in integrated marketing communications from Emerson College, and a bachelor’s in political science from Westfield State University.
In her free time, Pauline’s appetite for travel has her plotting the next weekend getaway any time she can.
Sasha Babiy, PPC Account Manager
Sasha Babiy is a PPC Account Manager at Group Twenty Seven. In this role, she takes on daily management of client accounts, including search, display, shopping and video campaigns.
Sasha works directly with clients to help them meet their PPC goals. Using a combination of creative and analytical skills, she is able to optimize advertising campaigns and communicate data-driven business insights clearly. By analyzing key metrics, such as leads, sales, quality scores, positions and impression shares, Sasha makes recommendations to clients and makes sure that PPC spend stays within budget.
Sasha holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and history. She’s also has five years of marketing experience. Part of that experience was accumulated while working with a digital marketing agency, where she mastered SEO, paid advertising, social media, email marketing and project management.
Born and raised in the south of Russia near the Black Sea, Sasha moved to the U.S. at age 19. She quickly fell in love with Colorado’s beautiful landscape.
She’s remains a passionate traveler with a love for the great outdoors. On the weekends, you can find Sasha and her dog exploring mountains, deserts, oceans, and the world at large.
Lori Iwanchuk, PPC Account Manager
Lori Iwanchuk is a PPC Associate at Group Twenty Seven. Working closely with the PPC Director, she handles day-to-day management and maintenance of both B2B and B2C client accounts, including auditing account settings, managing negative keywords and finding new ways to optimize ad spend.
Much of Lori’s work experience has been in higher education. For example, Lori worked as an academic counselor and academic manager at University of Phoenix. In those roles, she was responsible for daily operations of a team of counselors supporting undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, she was also responsible for mentoring other managers and creating new operating procedures for her division.
Lori has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Montana State University, a master of education degree in educational technology from Northern Arizona University, and a master of arts degree in education/curriculum and instruction from University of Phoenix. In her free time, Lori enjoys spending time with her family as well as hiking, reading and baking.
Alyssa MacPherson, PPC Account Manager
In her role as PPC Account Manager at Group Twenty Seven, Alyssa works primarily with B2B clients on their domestic and international paid search programs. Alyssa partners closely with her clients to understand their business and PPC goals, then creatively and strategically develops a PPC program that will help them achieve those goals.
Alyssa handles the daily operation of her accounts, managing spend, monitoring keyword trends and campaign activities. Alyssa thrives on using her analytical skills to optimize search, video and display campaigns and loves to test and implement the newest trends in PPC in order to drive results for her clients.
Prior to joining Group Twenty Seven, Alyssa worked in the tourism industry for 12 years in event planning and marketing roles where she developed a passion for digital marketing.
Alyssa has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Framingham State University in Massachusetts. When not at work, Alyssa spends time with her husband, two young children and the family dog. She loves to read, spend time outdoors and indulge her guilty pleasure of watching reality TV.
Jayshree Asarpota, PPC Associate
Jayshree Asarpota assists the PPC Manager with day-to-day monitoring of client accounts, including optimizing account settings, updating keyword lists and checking daily ad spend. Jayshree also assists with auditing audiences and making geographic targeting adjustments.
Jayshree has a bachelor’s in business administration from Rivier University. She has Google Ads and Bing Ads certification. She has experience managing paid search accounts, including monitoring day to day campaign activities, performing KPI analysis, managing budget goals and reporting to clients.
In her spare time, Jayshree enjoys reading, traveling and spending time with her family and children.
Alexandra (Alex) Connolly, PPC Associate
Alex assists Group Twenty Seven PPC Managers in monitoring client accounts on a daily basis. Some of her primary tasks include updating keyword lists, monitoring daily ad spend and reviewing account settings.
Alex graduated from California State University, San Marcos in 2008. Nine years ago, she moved from San Diego to Denver, Colorado.
Over her career, Alex has held various marketing positions. In her most recent position before joining Group Twenty Seven, she spent the bulk of her time growing the Brown-Forman portfolio of brands.
In her spare time, Alex likes to explore the mountain towns of Colorado alongside her dog, Henry. She also enjoys traveling, especially when she can visit different wineries and vineyards!
Alaina Fister, PPC Associate
Alaina assists the Group Twenty Seven Account Managers with day-to-day account monitoring. Her tasks include managing negative keywords and auditing account settings as well as tracking and reporting on account performance.
Alaina graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelors degree in marketing in May 2018. After that, she further developed her skills by working as a digital marketing specialist for an agency in Park City, Utah.
When she’s not at her desk, you can find Alaina outside with her partner and dogs where they enjoy camping, backpacking, skiing and mountain biking through the mountains and deserts of Utah.
