Wade Hyde's background spans over three decades of diversified marketing, public relations, customer relations, and technology communications experience from working with several nationally-recognized companies and organizations. As a leading corporate communications executive for Blockbuster, Hyde concentrated on significantly improving trade, retail, and international media relations while this entertainment giant was undergoing significant management and fiscal changes. He previously headed the financial communications department for FoxMeyer Corporation (now McKesson), a Fortune 500 $5.5 billion pharmaceutical distribution company where his team successfully guided the corporation through a period of extreme stock value declination, a bankruptcy, and a corporate merger. Hyde spent several years working in corporate communications at Anthem Health (now AmeriHealth), a Blue Cross/Blue Shield affiliated insurance organization, following his work in television at CBS-affiliate KDFW-TV Channel 4 and independent station KXTX-TV. Prior to forming Wade Hyde Corporation in 1999, Hyde served as vice president of marketing & public relations for a publicly traded real estate investment company. A longtime member of the National Writers Union, Hyde is a published feature writer and columnist for national magazines, regional newspapers and leading web sites including American Profile, Texas Triangle and MatchScene.com, the former online publication for match.com. Hyde was a top graduate of The University of Texas at Austin where he received the Outstanding Student Award in Radio-Television-Film from the College of Communications, and he later earned a Master of Science in Marketing from Texas A&M University – Commerce. Since 2001, Hyde has been an adjunct lecturer at El Centro College in Dallas where he teaches marketing, personal selling, retailing, customer relations management, and project management.