Congratulations to the Volunteers of 2009!
It takes a team of people develop and manage the great events that the Cincinnati AMA offers. Each member below received special recognition for going above and beyond to serve the chapter and its members. We thank all of our volunteers for their outstanding efforts.
November, 2009 – Steve Phelan
Steve Phelan has his own marketing practice–Your CMO, LLC– providing part-time and project support for companies, with specialties in Data Base Prospecting, Customer Retention, and New Product Development. Steve has developed and introduced 21 different products and product lines in more than 30 years of marketing with companies in the CPG, marketing research, and financial services industries.
Steve is a member of the AMA Membership committee and helps with the Non-Profit SIG (Steve heads the volunteer committee for the American Cancer Society’s Discovery Shop), as well as being an active participant in several other SIGS. “The Special Interest Groups have been a really excellent way to learn about new marketing tools and network with people in other specialties” Steve says. “They provide an enjoyable way for me to stay current.”
October, 2009 – Michelle Grossnickle
Michelle Grossnickle has been an Account Coordinator at Intrinzic since May 2008, supporting the U.S. Bank and Cintas accounts.
Before joining Intrinzic, Michelle spent two years at C.I.K. Enterprises in Indianapolis, first as a Customer Service Representative and then as a Marketing Coordinator. In these roles she was responsible for overseeing all West coast accounts and for supporting the company’s top-grossing sales representative.
She has been an active member of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Marketing Association and serves on the Volunteer Committee.
Michelle earned her B.A. in Communication Studies and Sociology from St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
September, 2009 – Jennie Dorl
Jennie is a Communications Coordinator at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she creates internal and external communications for Information Services and the Epic project – Cincinnati Children’s electronic medical record implementation. Her work focuses building awareness, accurate knowledge and positive perception of the Epic project and other initiatives through the website, newsletters and events.
Jennie is serving for a second year as the Collegiate Relations chair of the Young Professionals, encouraging college students to get involved in the AMA and creating new collegiate chapters at local colleges. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Jennie was a founding member and later president of the UC AMA.
August, 2009 – Rick Burkhardt
Rick Burkhardt is the director of business development at Curtis, Inc. He has over 20 years experience in the visual communications industry; has been an active volunteer in the AMA, a leader in the local Boy Scout program, and graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College of DAAP. He now serves as VP of Membership. “The most rewarding part of belonging to the Cincinnati AMA is the many relationships that have been fostered over the years”, states Mr. Burkhardt. “It has been a wonderful environment for professional and personal growth”.
Curtis, Inc. is a media creative and production services company that has enjoyed significant growth over its 25 year history producing award-winning projects for retail, corporate, and non-profit clients. Their new facility in Queensgate offers hi-def production and post production video, and allows all creative, audio, video, graphic, multimedia, and distribution services to be centralized in one location.
July, 2009 – Janet Heil
Janet first became a member of the AMA in 2004 as a student at Xavier University. Influenced by her collegiate experience, Janet became a committee member of the Young Professional-Collegiate in 2007 and will join the AMA board this year as VP of the Young Professional-Collegiate Group. She is excited about the opportunities to help the AMA emerge as a leader in the young professional movement in Cincinnati, connecting young professionals with local resources, businesses, and each other!
Janet is currently Dedicated Account Manager at LeSaint Logistics LLC, a third party logistics provider in Fairfield, OH. She has had many roles within LeSaint over the past 3 years including sales, marketing, account management, performance analysis, and transportation operations. Prior to working at LeSaint, Janet graduated from Xavier University with a BSBA in Marketing, a minor in Biology and was a member of the NCAA Division I Women’s Swim Team.
June, 2009 – Gina Contardi-Sieving
Gina Contardi-Sieving, a business development manager at Intrinzic, is a versatile professional with more than 7 years of diverse business experience in marketing, sales, training and development, and account management in the financial services and insurance fields.
As Business Development Manager, Gina, simply stated, helps Intrinzic win business. She identifies strategic opportunities that align with Intrinzic’s core strengths in branding, advertising, and interactive and demonstrates how the agency can bring our strategic advantage to bear in building clients’ business.
Gina is an active member of the Cincinnati chapter of the American Marketing Association, where she currently serves on the Volunteer Committee. She is slated to lead as VP of Sponsorship for 2009-2010.
Gina holds a B.S. in Education and a Master’s of Education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
May, 2009 – Steve Platt
Steve Platt joined the AMA in the fall of 2007 with the objectives of rapidly building a professional network, gaining new skills, and expanding business opportunities for his role as Director of CRM, Marketing & Lead Generation.
After attending the Shared Interest Group (SIG) on B2B Marketing in Northern Cincinnati, Steve decided that the best opportunity to discover, build and grow across the rapidly changing marketing landscape lay in the chapter’s SIGs themselves. As a self-described “rabid networker” and a regular attendee, Steve played an active role in most of the SIGs in 2007-08.
Recognizing Steve’s ongoing contributions to the SIGs, the chapter Board appointed him in March 2009 to be the Cincinnati AMA’s first Director for Shared Interest Groups, with the goal of building on the success our popular SIGs have already achieved.
While Steve currently pursues new career opportunities, his energy, enthusiasm, leadership and commitment to delivering positive results are already having an impact as he works with SIG leaders and our chapter Board on new opportunities to “discover, build and grow” through our SIG programs.
April, 2009 – Carrie Rider
Carrie Rider is the Business Development Director with Relevant Works in Milford, Ohio. She has been with the company for over a year now.
Carrie has been an active member of the Cincinnati chapter of the American Marketing Association. She is currently serving on the Sponsorship committee.
Carrie has worked in the marketing field for over 10 years. Her focus has been in the financial, non-profit sector, as well as a fortune 500 retail company. Her experience has given her the knowledge and understanding of how critical a well planned and executed marketing strategy is for companies in today’s marketing place.
Carrie is a graduate from the University of Cincinnati. She has completed one of Xavier University’s MBA Corporate Connections programs through the Williams College of Business.
March, 2009 – Donna Tabb
Donna has approximately 17 years of research experience, including work with Federated Department Stores Area Research Department and Marketing Research Services, Inc. Currently, Donna is a Senior Project Director at MRSI, a full-service marketing research firm. She has been at MRSI for approximately seven years. Donna is responsible for managing projects with annual revenues exceeding $ 4 Million and specializes in projects with retail clients. Additionally, she also has experience in managing projects for consumer packaging and business-to-business clients.
Donna has been involved with the AMA Market Research Committee for about one and a half years as a representative for MRSI. She has partnered with fellow MRSI employees in overseeing the AMA Annual Membership Survey, and worked with other committee members on several non-member recruitment initiatives.
February, 2009 – Stephanie Kehn
Stephanie is a Marketing Communications Specialist at Total Quality Logistics. Her work focuses on marketing activities directed to TQL’s client and carrier customer groups. These activities include lead generation, database marketing, web site management and customer engagement.
Prior to working at TQL, she was an Account Executive at Wordsworth Communications where she worked on public relations campaigns for clients such as Procter & Gamble Professional, Verizon Wireless and Kenwood Towne Centre. Stephanie has been an AMA member since July 2007 and serves as VP of MarCom for the YP group as well as a committee member for the MarCom group.
January, 2009 – Brian LeCount
Brian is the president of R.O.Why! Marketing, Inc. , a full service results-focused marketing communications firm that helps clients attract, cultivate, close and retain new business. The firm delivers creative design, website development & optimization, search marketing, social media and traditional marketing communications such as advertising, sales collateral, direct mail, email, and PR.
Their expertise is in creating tangible results for clients on short time frames and conservative budgets. We help clients make the most of their time and resources by focusing marketing programs on what’s proven to work.
At the AMA, Brian serves on the MarCom and Professional Development committees, working with Jennifer Panepinto on chapter communications as well as with Pete Healy on events, SIG development and the 2009 Digital Marketing Summit. He also currently leads the chapter’s social media activities and is working to find new ways for the chapter to reach out to its audiences using some of the more popular social media tools.
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