Creative Director · Omnichannel · Nashville

Your story on every channel.

Your audience is on screen, at events, in the feed, in the inbox and at the mailbox. I build one big idea and make it work in every one of those places. Then you see exactly what it did, all the way to the buyer.

  • Film & video
  • Live events
  • Brand
  • Social & influencers
  • Paid digital
  • Email & SMS
  • Print & direct mail

Open to Creative Director and senior creative leadership roles.

16,200

new shareholders matched name by name across three campaigns

$40.2M

in shares held by those new investors at matchback

24×

return on ad spend on the strongest campaigns

16%

unaided awareness for a national brand, up from 2–3%

Film & live events

Events we built, films we cut

Your event lasts one night. The film keeps working for months. I plan and produce investor summits, launch nights and on-camera interviews, then cut them into recaps your audience will actually watch.

Naoris Protocol, New York Event production · Recap film · 2026

A New York event for a cybersecurity protocol, captured and cut into a recap film for social and investor channels.

AI Investor Intelligence SummitScottsdale · Event production · Recap film · 2024
Truth SocialEvent production · Recap film · 2024
L3s and TWA brandingInterview · Brand film · 2026

Every channel

One idea, built for every place your audience looks

Your audience doesn’t live in one channel, so your campaign shouldn’t either. I lead the whole thing, so your event, film, feed, inbox and mailbox all tell the same story and push to the same action.

01 · FILM & VIDEO

Recaps and interviews

Event recaps, executive interviews and brand films cut for social, landing pages and investor updates.

02 · LIVE EVENTS

Summits and launches

Investor summits and launch events in New York and Scottsdale, from concept to the room to the recap.

03 · BRAND

Platforms that stick

National creative strategy that took a senior-living brand from 2–3% to 16% unaided awareness.

04 · SOCIAL & CREATORS

Influencer programs

55+ influencer posts on 8 platforms in 3 languages for one five-week campaign.

05 · PAID DIGITAL

Media that reads

Google, Meta, Yahoo Finance, native, programmatic and TikTok, driving to landing pages built to be read.

06 · EMAIL, SMS & MESSAGING

Daily touchpoints

Newsletters, SMS, push, WhatsApp, Telegram and community channels reaching 750,000+ inboxes and phones.

07 · PRINT & DIRECT MAIL

Magalogs and newsalogs

Long-form packages mailed to hundreds of thousands of investors, cover-tested and matched to buyers.

08 · INVESTOR COMMS

Public-company voice

Pre-IPO to post-IPO positioning, compliant messaging and investor updates for Starfighters Space.

Campaigns

The work and what it did

You want to know what the creative did, not just how it looked. In investor campaigns that comes down to one question: how many new people now own your stock? These results are matched against each company’s own shareholder file. Client names are withheld.

Magalog · 22 pages · one of three tested covers
  • Oil & gas
  • Direct mail
  • Facebook + Google
  • Landing page

$15 million in new shareholder investment from one mailing

A Nasdaq-listed oil and gas producer needed new retail investors. The lead put the most famous investor in America on the cover and asked whether he’d missed the story inside. Mail and paid social both drove to one landing page built to be read.

1,616
new shareholders from the first mailing
$9,269
invested per new shareholder
6 : 1
return on the mailing; 14.6 : 1 from multi-list buyers
13 min
average time on the landing page
Magalog · 22 pages · three-way cover test
  • Biotech
  • Direct mail
  • Google + programmatic
  • Cover testing

11,986 new shareholders across two campaigns

A small-cap biotech had promising science and a thin shareholder list. The lead tied a Washington news story to the company’s science. We tested three covers on 60,000 proven investors, then mailed deeper into the lists that paid.

$18.7M
in shares held by new investors
7,867
new shareholders from campaign one
13.6 : 1
return on the winning cover
2.8×
our response benchmark in campaign two
  • Digital assets
  • Creators + paid + native
4:54

average reading time

Five weeks of paid media on six platforms, 55+ creator posts in three languages and daily messaging held investors 5.4× longer than the average website.

2M+ investor touchpoints · one Instagram video drew 270K views

  • Gold exploration
  • Mail + digital + SMS
12×

the trades in 90 days

A junior gold explorer traded fewer than three times a day. Direct mail plus search, social, native, newsletter networks, SMS and email followed. By month three it traded more than 30 times a day.

2,598 new shareholders · $6.57M in shares

  • Healthcare AI
  • U.S. market entry
790

first U.S. shareholders, matched

A foreign-listed healthcare AI company had no American investors. A 400,000-piece mailing introduced it to the ones most likely to buy, in a five-week window.

17 mailing lists returned 5 : 1 or better · best list 32 : 1

Print

From the mailbox

A cover has one job: get your package opened before it hits the recycling bin. Each of these led a long-form piece mailed to hundreds of thousands of investors. Tap one to see it full size.

Also

Brand, books and the team

Twenty years of brand campaigns, bestselling books and creative operations means your project gets someone who has seen most problems before.

16%

Brookdale Senior Living

Unaided brand awareness grew from about 2–3% to 16% in three years while I rose from senior copywriter to interim creative director.

4

Ramsey Solutions

National bestsellers I helped develop as senior editor on personal-finance books.

50%

AI-assisted creative

Less production time after I moved the CDMG creative team to AI-assisted research, drafting and production.

About

A storyteller who measures

I started as an editor, and I still think like one: find the one idea that matters in your story and make it clear. Since then I’ve carried that habit into national brand work, books, film, live events, social and direct response.

Today I’m Creative Director at CDMG in Nashville, leading integrated campaigns that run from an event stage to a recap film, a creator post, an email and a 22-page magalog. If you need one person who can carry your idea through all of that and show you the results, let’s talk.

  1. 2023–now
    CDMGCreative Director
  2. 2017–2023
    Brookdale Senior LivingSenior Copywriter → Associate CD → Interim CD
  3. 2017–2018
    Martin VenturesMarketing Consultant
  4. 2011–2017
    Ramsey SolutionsSenior Editor
  5. 2005–2010
    Plunkett ResearchEditor → Senior Managing Editor

University of Houston, BA and postgraduate study · University of Chicago, Editing Certificate

Contact

Have a role
or a launch? Let’s talk.

Want to see the full pieces? Ask, and I’ll send you inside spreads, campaign decks and the complete films.

Campaign work was produced by the CDMG creative team under my creative direction. Shareholder counts and share values come from matchbacks of mail recipients against each company’s shareholder file and are as measured at matchback. Trading figures compare campaign periods with each company’s own baseline and do not claim the campaign caused them. Client identities in the campaign results are withheld. Past results do not guarantee future performance.