Company Name: Premier Marketing Services,IncTitle: Principle/Chief Executive OfficerLocation: Evansville, INDescription: Founded and built full service advertising agency from ground up into a million-dollar organization.- Design and execute high-ROI, market-leading advertising campaigns, including long-form television and radio, graphic and outdoor advertising campaigns, to enhance sales.- Develop and administer advertising budget on behalf of client. - Identify and capitalize on new business opportunities and develop and maintain win-win relationships with a wide variety of media outlets and production houses.-Recruit and facilitate the career development of high-performing cross-functional team.- Negotiated and secured multi-year contract with major local dealership to produce two $25K infomercials targeting specific market segment; campaign resulted in dramatically increased sales for client.- Won 5 Silver Awards and 7 Bronze Awards from the American Advertising Foundation-Greater Evansville.

Company Name: Watching Interactive Holdings, LLCTitle: Managing Partner/Chief Executive OfficerLocation: Evansville, INDescription: Owns and operates www.watchevansville.com, a hyper-local video-sharing platform, and hosts Steel Cook.Drive sales as well as all business and finance operations, client acquisitions, and staffing and scheduling. Prospect for and establish strong working relationships with clients, local and national advertisers, and creative and internet managing partners. -Pioneered and introduced new media product to market, attracting 1.3K+ members.-Partnered with Farmers Tobacco Company to produce “From Seed to Smoke,” a year-long video series project that included producing and launching new website to promote online orders, developing new promotional material, and creating all new corporate logos and trade show displays.-Named “Entrepreneur of the Year” (’11) by the Evansville Chamber of Commerce.-Won 1 Silver Award from the American Advertising Foundation–Greater Evansville in the Website and Streaming Video category.-Concurrently host and serve as CEO of Steel Cook, an annual local cooking competition for charity. Market event to local chefs, restaurants and caterers and leverage extensive media contacts to generate publicity and sell tickets.

Company Name: Thrifty Nickel Want Ads/American Classifieds,LLCTitle: General Manager/Sales Manager/Sales ProfessionalLocation: Evansville, INDescription: The largest free classified newspaper in the U.S. and owner and operator of www.tnol.com.-Drove all business operations for the Evansville office, with managerial oversight of 30 employees. Oversaw and coordinated distribution to 700+ locations. -Held full HR, P&L and budgetary responsibilities. -Instituted and aligned all plans, policies, and controls with broad-scale corporate goals.- Developed and executed high-ROI marketing strategies to expand territory and grow sales. -Hunted for new opportunities, designed new sales promotions, and developed innovative solutions to meet diverse customer needs. -Conceived of and initiated 10 promotional campaigns, including the highly successful “Design An Ad Contest” which encouraged area grade school students to design ads for participating sponsors. Campaign recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. -Named “#1 Sales Representative” nationwide, out of 800 qualified candidates.-Ranked as a Top 10 nationwide performer 10 consecutive years; Evansville office ranked in top 5% nationwide, out of 130 competing offices.-Consistently delivered 100%+ on quota and realized 5% year-over-year growth every year during tenure.-Achieved 75% repeat business and 25% new business annually.