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Mr. Stone is a distinguished operating executive with almost 30 years of experience starting, building and selling successful marketing services companies. He has extensive experience in direct marketing, advertising, data aggregation, promotions, telecommunications and production, and his work and creativity have been recognized by both the American Marketing Association and the International Film Society. Mr. Stone is currently a Managing Director of Trivergance. Prior to joining Trivergance, Mr. Stone worked with Marc Byron at Paradigm Direct and Mosaic Group. At Paradigm Direct, Mr. Stone was the CIO and Internet Division President, creating one of the most successful on-line direct marketers of consumer subscription services. He also was simultaneously in charge of the design and implementation of the entire IT infrastructure, including all fulfillment and sales tracking of over 60 million customer records a year. At Mosaic Group, Mr. Stone was tapped to go to the United Kingdom to roll-up 5 separate marketing entities with revenue of over £60 million into a single operating unit with over 1,200 employees. Prior to that, Mr. Stone had successfully built and sold his own advertising agency, an artist management firm and a marketing and management-consulting firm. SFS Advertising was grown rapidly to one of the top 10 New Jersey Advertising Agencies, with $60,000,000 in billing for a diverse array of national advertising clients. Downey Stone, his artist management company, managed and developed Morton Downey Jr. and the Morton Downey Jr. Show. A Better Life, Inc., focused on marketing programs with many entertainers in Branson, Missouri, including Tony Orlando, Wayne Newton and Yakov Smirnoff, as well as several prominent Branson businesses. Jerry serves on the board of a Midwest restaurant chain and is the founder of the Nutrition Superfund, a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization, established to amass funds for marketing a “healthy eating” message to the youth of America – and combat the American obesity epidemic. Mr. Stone was born in 1958 and is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and a graduate of The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, a world-renowned interdisciplinary center on negotiation and conflict resolution. |
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