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Dick Clough

President

Dick Clough & Co.

Marketing-Commnications Generalist

Profession: 30+ years as marketing-communications generalist.CEO (Chief Everything Officer), Dick Clough & Co. Primary expertise: branding and strategic consulting, marketing services, custom publishing, and special events. Sponsorship acquisition and execution, and attendant promotion is a center of excellence. Have developed six figure sponsor relationships with major consumer product corporations for some of Cleveland’s best known events and festivals including Walk+Roll, Ingenuity, BP RiverFest, All-Nations Festival, Ohio Sports Festival, and Firebase Cleve-and. Recently published luxury golf travel publication, Fairways in Paradise; and ghosts custom personal communications for busy executives and politicians through a service called Letter Works.

Current Civic/Charitable Involvement: Committed to promoting the marketing-communications industry and regional economic development, and supporting social service programs that address homelessness, literacy and hunger, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

-Co-founder, and current President, Northeast Ohio Communication Affiliates (NOCA). Twenty-four affiliate organizations representing all facets of marketing-communications including advertising, PR, printing and publishing have come together to speak with one voice and work together as an industry” on local and regional issues.

-Board Member, American Advertising Federation, Cleveland..

-Trustee, and Development Committee Chair, Joseph’s Home, Inc., a transitional health care facility for homeless men.

-Trustee, Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons, Inc. Chaired fundraiser benefiting Gulf Coast victims and local MHS programs for homeless called “Refresh Express” that encouraged individuals and businesses to sponsor cases of a private-label brand of water called Hope Springs.

-Trustee, Community Assessment & Treatment Services, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for recently released inmates, and low-income individuals.

- Founder and Chair, Tour of Good Cheer, a Holidays project supporting seven facilities with clothing, toys and other gifts seriously-ill, needy and/or homeless adults and children and their caregivers. The project celebrates its 24th anniversary in December.

- Volunteer and Committee member, United Way.

Past Civic/Charitable Involvements: Board Chair (five years), Freedom House, Inc., President, Berea City Council; President, Playhouse Square Neighborhood Association; Co-Chair, Five Together of Quality Schools (Cleveland School Board campaign); Trustee, Downtown (Cleveland) Business Council.

General:
Graduate, Ohio University, BSJ, 1969.
Veteran, 1LT, USARV, Bronze Star.
Interests - Cycling, Railroading, Local History, Politics, Baseball

Source: Dick Clough

08/12/2008

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