Main responsibility is the direction of creative work and staff and vendors that produce multi-media, video, audio, photography and illustration. Works in tandem with new business team and helps manage existing national, regional and local accounts. Responsible for directing agency and managing team in strategic planning, total quality management and team building. Specializes in government, non-profit, diversity, health care and manufacturing industries. Agency founder, principal partner.
With over 40 years of experience, Ben is locally known as one of the originators in electronic creative design – in the fall of 1985, his was one of the first ad agencies in Louisville to use Macintosh computers.
Not only is he one of the founders of the Leo Award for Creative Excellence in Chicago (for Leo Burnett), Ben has also received many local and national awards and acknowledgments for his creativeness and writing skills. Ben has successfully transferred marketing objectives to the reel, radio and paper.
Exemplified for his endless energy to help non-profit organizations in our community, Ben achieves greater promotional awareness for his clients by orchestrating joint ventures in marketing.
Ben has worked with many national clients including: Chi-Chi’s, Commonwealth of Kentucky (Special Needs Adoption Program), Dairymen, GE, Hoover Vacuum Cleaners, Ft. Howard Paper Co., Pillsbury and Sherwin-Williams.
Some of the awards and honors he has received are: Ad Fed of Louisville, multiple Louie Awards; Junior Achievement Bronze Leadership Award; Kentucky Colonel; American Diabetes Association Board Member; Lupus Foundation Board Member; instructor at Kentucky and Indiana colleges; Urban League Award; Volunteer of the Year Award and Lifetime Service Award for the Corn Island Storytelling Festival.
Ben's current affiliations include: Co-chair Hispanic Latino Coalition, Louisville; Vice President, Communications, Ad Fed of Louisville; and Louisville Direct Marketing Association.