Our Experience

Our principals are experienced managers and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds as management consultants, marketers, communicators, and operating executives.

Nick Farina Sr.
  • Senior Managing Director, Hill and Knowlton, International PR firm.
  • Vice President, Public Affairs, Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • President, investor relations arm of Dresner Investment Bank.
  • Chief Marketing Officer, ShipNow, enterprise software firm.
  • Editor and writer, The Associated Press and Chicago Sun-Times.

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Tom Marnell
  • 30 years of branding and customer-acquisition and retention consulting.
  • Designs databases that capture underlying motivation of customers.
  • Employs "Market Mapping" to capture the interrelationships within marketplaces.
  • Management positions in two top-ten advertising agencies.
  • Marketing executive at several consumer products companies.

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Finding The Right Customer June 08, 2009
Michael Beichtol
  • 25 years of business experience as a consultant, journalist and entrepreneur.
  • Counsels a broad cross-section of business, government and not-for-profits.
  • Works directly with corporate boards, CEOs and senior executives.
  • Managing Practice Director for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  • Consultant and business leader for three large communications firms.

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Nick Farina Jr.

Nick Farina Jr.
  • Specializes in digital media marketing
  • Pioneered search optimized video
  • Board member, Chicago Public Television
  • Director of personal finance consulting company
  • Lifelong entrepreneur

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"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." -Daniel Burnham, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

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