Ray Deremo:  

The following is not very personal, but since I already had this written for business - Ray's initial career path involved applying his advertising degree from Michigan State into practice during a two year tenure with the Leo Burnett advertising agency headquartered in Chicago. There, Ray entered into the Account Executive program, serving initially as Marketing and Advertising Research Analyst on the RCA, Kellogg, Swift-Eckrich and UNOCAL accounts. A desire to find an outlet for the creative streak within, led Ray to a half-dozen years on the creative and production side of business to business communications. Following a brief career freelance producing projects with several film and video production studios, Ray became Sr. Producer for the world's largest trade association, The National Association of Realtors. Ray oversaw the development and production of dozens of membership communications, and national/regional conferences around the country. Ray was an integral member of the planning team that designed and built a $1M video production and editing studio. First as a client of AGS&R Communications, and later offered a position as Sr. Film and Video Producer with the largest business communications firm in the mid-west. Ray put his experience to work on more varied and substantive business meeting, film, video and multi-media projects. His experience broadened to include new clients - Steelcase, Brunswick, UNOCAL, The State of Illinois Dept of Commerce and Community Affairs, Chicago Board of Trade, Northwestern University, Star Kist and Phillip Morris. Several projects were recognized for "Creative Excellence" at industry communications festivals. His years of exposure to clients and their business issues, while overseeing the technical, creative and project management functions, prepared Ray well for the next evolution of his career - Sales and Account Management at AGS&R. Following a year that saw Ray successfully service existing clients while also garnering new business, Ray was offered an opportunity to manage the sales and marketing e...Expand for more