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Marnie Tenden
Positioning, plan, and message
Marnie keeps the ducks in a row and the boats pointed the same direction. Thunderbird MBA. Ithaca communications. Los Angeles agency and client-side career: VP of Marketing roles, Communications Strategy Officer at SCAG, President and CEO of Batey Ads USA. She has built the plan, the message, and the website. She has designed more than 60 websites. She cuts through noise with research, positioning, and copy that can actually sell. Off the clock she is on a Utah trail or a California bike path. On the clock she walks the program to the finish.
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Tara Dreblow
Sales and client partnerships
Tara nets results, and not only from her days as Eastern Kentucky's No. 1 singles player and team captain. Twenty-three years in sales, events, and client partnerships. At Thryv she has hit 100%+ of goal every year since 2019, earned President's Club four times, and was the nation's No. 1 PRR in 2019, 2023, and 2024. Before that she ran 150+ events a year for Ascension Press and sat in front of the top dioceses and parishes in the country. She opens doors, keeps the calendar moving, and does not leave a room without a next step. Jasper, Indiana based. National reach.
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Barbara Merkel
Implementation and production
B is the implementer. She shreds the to-do list without needing to be in anyone's face, because she always has your back. TBWA\Chiat\Day. The Garage at Mazda. RAPP. Decades turning creative into printed, mailed, and installed work for auto, retail, and high-security launches, including tens of millions of Apple magazine inserts under NDA. She has cut real program cost while paper and postage went the other way. She is already one step ahead, vendors lined up, brand intact. That is how a lean shop hits a national date.
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Jef Pertzborn
Coordination and client services
Jef has learned that unpredictable mountain conditions can slow you down, so only by focusing on the process can you gain control. His career reflects his skiing philosophy. Idea junky. Workaholic. Decades in music-industry operations: booking, promoting, and supporting touring artists while keeping venues, schools, and the occasional haunted house running smoothly. He approaches communication, coordination, connection, and client services like downhill skiing: reading the terrain, linking clean turns, staying in flow, and delivering a smooth, memorable run every time.
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Sue Eck Allen
Visionary consultant, production lead
When she is not writing down the 3 a.m. idea, she is turning it into a job jacket, a vendor bid, and a ship date. Fashion Institute of Technology. Retail merchandising and buying, plus advertising and communications. Veteran production and project lead across sports, retail, and fashion. The NFL. Doner Advertising. Borders, Inc. Perry Ellis International brands. All-Star balloting programs for MLB, NBA, and MLS. She saved a major intimates brand 49% on seasonal print and signage and 60% on golf catalogs without giving up quality. As visionary consultant for uNILinear she does not stop at the concept. She builds the poster, the kit, the timeline, and the cost. Acquiring customers for major brands and keeping them loyal is the job she actually likes.
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Clay Dedeaux, Ph.D., MBA
Marketing strategy
Theory versus reality. Clay has lived on both sides of that line. Thirty years in the ad war room. Thirteen as Senior Vice President at Arnold Worldwide advising BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen, plus earlier seats at McCaffery & McCall and Ammirati & Puris. Then the classroom: professor emeritus at Ferris State's College of Business. A 2009 Michigan State Ph.D. on advertising and donor generosity. An MBA from UIC. A B.S. from USC Marshall. He taught consumer behavior, international marketing, and advertising management for more than a decade. Theory only when it survives contact with a real market. Marketing concepts matter when they move a buyer. That is the brief he keeps.
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Chris Chadwick
Systems and data
Chris uses both sides of the brain. He writes code the way he writes songs: structured, then loud enough to work. Fifteen-plus years building and hardening systems for banks, health agencies, telecom, and the cloud: .NET, SQL, React, AWS, the unglamorous work that keeps data from falling off the curve. Guardrails first. Then speed. You get the report, the form, and the integration in a format your team can actually use. No theater. Just the highway with the rails on.
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Carlos Chui
Photography that sells
Carlos makes images that sell. Decades in high-volume fashion and product work for television, web, and print: HSN, Zagg, and QVC Group. Studio and location. Lighting, color, retouching, and a daily deadline. Addy and Clio team awards, World Retail Awards, and a Disney partnership on Oz the Great and Powerful. He knows the difference between a pretty frame and a frame that moves product. That is the only brief that matters at a clinic, a store event, or a poster shoot.
Eight key people. No headquarters tour. Nationwide execution at a cost a celebrity NIL shop cannot touch, because we already know how retail gets done.