Mark Gardiner Email and Phone Number

Corporate Communications ● Customer Experience ● Creative Direction & CopywritingNew York Times ● FreakonomicsI’m a corporate communications expert working with high profile tech and venture capital firms and a respected journalist whose work has been featured in the New York Times and Columbia Journalism Review. I have a knack for making complex technical subjects understandable to a general audience, telling great brand stories, and finding the story-behind-the-story.I have had a long career in advertising, first as a copywriter then creative director. I’ve worked with clients in telecoms, finance, healthcare, retail, automotive, real estate development, among many other sectors. I’ve conceived and written campaigns that effectively used both on- and offline media. I have client-side experience as VP-Marketing of a $200M retail chain.I’m the author of the book Build a Brand Like Trader Joe’s, and a public speaker on the primacy of Customer Experience in branding. My ideas formed the basis of one of the most popular Freakonomics episodes.I have an extremely wide-ranging education (University of Calgary) and interests. I love learning new subjects and am a (very!) quick study. I speak fluent ‘engineer’.• U.S./Canadian dual citizen• English/French languages• Based in Lawrence KSAdditional information: www.MarkGardiner.com