Robert Viola is Managing Partner and Chief Creative Director of Robert Viola Partners (RVP), a Chicago-based collaborative that specializes in creating, promoting, and managing outstanding brands and communications programs for companies and organizations. For more than 30 years Viola’s passion and focus have been very straightforward: to develop powerful brands and strategic, creative communications that help clients thrive. Viola’s client engagements have included B2B and B2C in a wide variety of industries, including professional services, healthcare, financial services, technology, recruiting, education, manufacturing, and not-for-profits.The RVP process is proven, ongoing, and efficient. Using a blend of strategy, imagination, and technology, Viola and his partners work with clients to collectively unearth, foster, and refine the essence of their brand, and identify what makes them extraordinary and distinctly different. Intelligent strategy provides an edge in influencing innovative approaches. Inspired creativity makes bolder impressions and deeper connections with all audiences. Smarter utilization of technology elevates brand equity and ensures purposeful messages are delivered effectively and efficiently.Solutions are tailored to the size and needs of each organization to deliver dynamic, customized branding solutions that will create or strengthen its brand to be more captivating, more robust, and more relevant. The result is an authentic brand that resonates at every touchpoint and differentiates an organization or product from the competition to achieve objectives that fuel business success.Robert studied visual communications and design at School of the Art Institute of Chicago after receiving a B.A. from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Patrick High School where he currently serves on the Institutional Advancement Committee. He has also volunteered his time and talents in designing brand and marketing communications programs for a wide variety of not-for-profit organizations, including CURE/Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Holy Name Cathedral, National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, and Literacy DuPage. He serves as a Lector and Auxiliary Minister at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.Specialties: Branding, Design, Marketing Communications & AdvertisingBuilding business by building stronger brands in the fields of:Professional Services, Financial Services, Healthcare, Consumer, and Not for Profit.