Business Marketer of the Year | 5-Year Members | 10-Year Members
Member Recognition
Business Marketer of the Year (formerly called Communicator of the Year)
*Download the nomination form for this year's Business Marketer of the Year here. Nominations are due March 23, 2012.
Each year, the Colorado Chapter of BMA honors an outstanding member of the B2B marketing community as Business Marketer of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes a long-term commitment to advancing the professionalism and high standards of business-to-business marketing. Previous recipients are:
- 1985 Bob Feeney, CBC (deceased)
- 1986 Harry Doyle, CBC (deceased)
- 1987 Larry Hennesy, CBC
- 1988 Jim McCoy, CBC
- 1989 Tom Hagan, CBC
- 1990 Al Ross, CBC (deceased)
- 1991 Bill Walsh, CBC
- 1992 Jane Baumhardt, CBC
- 1993 Tom Ratty, CBC
- 1994 Bob Schaller, CBC
- 1995 Stephen Straight, CBC
- 1996 Michael Menaker, CBC
- 1997 Jay Marks, CBC
- 1998 Tom Costner, CBC
- 1999 Ken Custer
- 2000 Rip Ripley, CBC
- 2001 Karen Sutherland
- 2002 Michael Burke, CBC
- 2003 Pam Giordano, CBC
- 2004 Betty Cundy, CBC
- 2005 Michael Brandt, CBC
- 2006 Marilee Yorchak, CAE
- 2007 Chris McGary, CBC
- 2008 Rich Carvill, CBC
- 2009 Viki Mann, CBC
- 2010 Christine Cook, PRC
- 2011 Sam Eidson
The award acknowledges outstanding contributions and service not only to BMA Colorado, but also to the B2B marketing field as a whole. It recognizes an individual who has supported business-to-business marketing education, who has expanded the success of BMA-Colorado and business-to-business marketing within the community at large, and who has served as a leader and ambassador for the business-to-business marketing community.
This year's Business Marketer of the Year will be honored at the Gold Key banquet on May 4, 2012 at the Denver Art Museum.
Long-Term Members
Many members of the Colorado chapter are long-term members of BMA, benefiting from the many advantages and opportunities that membership has to offer and offering their talents to the success of the organization. It's impressive to us that 27 percent of membership has been a member of BMA Colorado for more than five years!
BMA-Colorado would like to recognize the following long-term BMA members:
5-9 Year Members
France Addington-Lee, CBC, GE Analytical Instruments
Kimberly Barb, ResponsePoint
Aaron Batte, Faction Media
Bob Chernet, Bob Chernet & Associates
Duane Ciacco, Moxie Creative Communications Agency
Jeff Cohn, Cohn Marketing
James Clark, Room214
Drew Davis, MAS, Specialty Incentives
Stephen Dellerba, CIRSA
Casey Demchak, Copywriter/Consultant
Resa Furey, MWH Global
Mary Beth Gieser, Hamilton Exhibits
Courtney Grams, CIRSA
Brett Grischo, Explore Communications
Kate Gurule, PG Exhibits
Lisa Haldeman, Leopard
Kelly Hall, 90octane
Gwin Heath, Faction Media
Brendan Hemp, Leopard
Tracy Hups, Pixim, Inc.
Dale Hursch, SmartSearch Marketing
Vish Iyer, Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado
Rob Jones, Frederic Printing
Tom Kennedy, Republic Financial
Tom Kimball, Kimball Productions
Teresa Kloser, Effective UI
Josh Levy, CBC, Quintess
Greg Olson, GROWL Mobile Agency
Lynn Owen, CBC, Dairy Council of America
Marcy Phelps, Phelps Research
Lisa Platz, CBC, Karsh/Hagan
Yuri Prizemin, Parascript
Steve Riegel, Faction Media
Marian Robinson, Baxa
Lee Rumbles, MicroMotion
Cheryl Smith, Leopard
Scott Takeda, Takeda Entertainment
Monica Valdez, Amadeus Consulting
Sheri Vernier, Marketing-Dynamix
Jan Weber, Mind the Market
Jason Winston, Leopard
LuAnn Wood, Your Bindery
10 Year+ Members
Kevin Borchert, Connect! Communications, LLC
Mark Boulding, ExhibitQuest
Mike Brandt, CBC, Marketing Resources, Ltd.
Jim Braun, CBC, Direct Response, Inc.
Mike Burke, CBC
Rich Carvill, CBC, TrueVine Marketing Communications
Christine Cook, INGATHER RESEARCH
Tom Costner, CBC, Softlight Studio
Ken Custer, The Review
Sarah Danaher, CBC, MicroMotion
Karen Davis, Ingage, Inc.
Keith DeLine, ProCorp Images
Sam Eidson, 90octane
Barb Gilroy, Gilroy Graphic Design
Pam Giordano, CBC
Dave Greves, Faction Media
Bob Griff, Griff/SMC
Jim Grinney, 90octane
Dan Hoffman, Aspen Media & Market Research
Maggie Holben, APR, Absolutely Public Relations
Linda Huff, CBC, KKf Marketing
Matthew Keeney, AOR
Joe Kroog, OnTarget Jobs
Laurie Lavelle, CBC, Greenfield Marketing Group
Viki Mann, CBC, Covidien
Jay Marks, CBC, The Marks Group
Chris McGary, CBC, Oracle
Michael Menaker, CBC, Retired
Gary Null, CBC, Stanley Aviation
Steve Parry, Sales Productivity Consultants
Jere Paulmeno, CBC, Healthcare Copy
Renee Real, ISYS
Ken Sabey, Web Point Oh, LLC!
Bob Schaller, CBC, APR, Retired
Jessica Schaller, The Accounting Resource, LLC
Deb Schindler, Merrick
Julie Schlegelmilch, CBC, Armada Medical Marketing
Barry Seidenstat, ROI Communication Solutions
Robin Seidner, CBC, Radian6
Jerry Sexton, CBC, Sexton & Company
Karen Sutherland, MarketWell-Today
Steve Toms, CBC, Vision Graphics
Tom Tucker, CBC, Vision Graphics
Terry Weeber, CBC, Gates Corporation
Jeannie Zaemes, CBC, Zoll Data Systems
Many thanks to these long-term members, who help make BMA THE place to be!