Direct Mail Express Inc.

Mike Panaggio founded Direct Mail Express in 1984 and has since built the company into a fully integrated direct marketing powerhouse. With a background in Physical Education and Sports, Mike runs DME like a professional basketball team. DME is far from traditional. "It works for our staff and our customers," says Panaggio. "What else matters?" Mike attended SUNY Brockport, where he played 4 years of basketball for his father and two with his younger brother Dan. Team success translated quickly into business success when Panaggio ascended to the top ranks as a commodity and securities broker with Merrill Lynch and Prudential Bache in Rochester, New York. In the early 1980's he recognized a need for personalized direct marketing services and the desire to run his own team was too much to resist. Using his financial and marketing experience, Panaggio founded DME and grew it from a start-up company with three employees and a carload of ideas into one of the top direct marketing companies in the USA today with over 700 staff members and revenues of 100 million.