Hallmark

Rick joined the Enterprise Center in January 2006 as Vice President of Business Development. Before joining ECJC, Rick was co-founder and COO of Inventive Play, LLC, a direct marketer of products for individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Prior to that, he was general manager of Allied Products, Inc., the start-up gift division of a diversified manufacturing company. Rick also has extensive business development and mergers and acquisitions experience from positions he held at Hallmark.com and Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Nate Bolt is fascinated by the personal, social, and cultural roles of technology, and the ways that research and design can transform them. After pioneering and directing the User Experience department at Clear Ink in 1999, which included the construction of Natural Environment and Remote Observation laboratories, Nate co-founded Bolt | Peters. He now serves as president and CEO, overseeing hundreds of user research studies for Hallmark, Oracle, Time Warner, Levi's, Restoration Hardware, and many others. Beginning in 2003, he led the creation of the first moderated remote user research software, Ethnio, which is being used around the world to recruit live participants for research on web sites and applications. Nate regularly gives presentations on native environment research methods in both commercial and academic settings. Working with faculty at the University of California, San Diego, he created a degree titled "Digital Technology and Society," which focused on the intersection of technology and mass population usage. He also completed a year of communications studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was jailed briefly for playing drums in public without a license.

Denise Trowbridge is Hallmark's Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. She was responsible for the implementation of our credit card operation and has overall day to day responsibility for our credit card operations. A successful business operator prior to joining Hallmark Bank & Trust Ltd., Mrs. Trowbridge brings a wealth of operational experience to the Bank.

Previously Director of Event and Sponsorship Sales for the Meredith Publishing Group, Carol marketed events to major clients. She served as Director of Strategic Alliances at More magazine, where she developed and sold sponsorship packages for both The More Marathon and The More/Wilhelmina 40+ Model Search. She was Publisher of More magazine and the Associate Publisher of Bon Appetit. Carol's background makes her perfect to manage ad sales, as well as the integration and utilization of the Hallmark corporate assets into marketing programs and additional advertising sales opportunities that can be leveraged strategically to deliver everything an advertiser needs to be successful.

Barry Brown, Hallmark's construction director, is responsible for the design and construction of all developments. Starting work at the London Borough of Haringey, he quickly moved on to Nigel Rose & Partners in the West End as a quantity surveyor. He subsequently worked for contractors and in consultancy as well as running his own business, before joining Hallmark in 2000. In his career to date he has worked on refurbishment and new build public housing schemes, schools, hospitals, shops, offices, factories, sports stadiums including Windsor Race Course, and prestigious private housing.

Laura Beddini joins the Hallmark Magazine launch team as Circulation Director with 17 years of magazine circulation and consumer marketing experience. Most recently Group Circulation Director at Ziff Davis Media and Vice President of Time Inc. Consumer Marketing, Laura also held posts at Reader's Digest and Art and Antiques magazine. She is a Board Member and past President of the Fulfillment Management Association.

With 15 years experience at Hallmark Cards, Inc., Mary has a deep understanding of the Hallmark brand and consumer. Mary is an expert in leveraging brand assets in new, breakthrough ways to meet client objectives. Before joining the magazine team, Mary spent six years creating integrated marketing solutions for Hallmark Gold Crown stores and Hallmark retail mass accounts, including discount, drug and supermarket chains. Mary has successfully managed hundreds of retail and consumer events, programs and partnerships for Hallmark.

Assuming the responsibilities of President & CEO, effective January 1, 2007, Dale's experience in supply chain has led to many of Hallmark's current strategic business ventures, including our Technical Services division and our Integrated Tubular Solutions Centre in Nisku , Alberta . Dale was also accountable for the integration of our 3 divisions, ensuring maximum value to all stakeholders. As Executive Vice President, Dale was part of the original team that helped grow the company from modest beginnings to its stellar nine-digit revenues first achieved in 1998. Hallmark's reputation of supplying from world class seamless and ERW mills allowed Dale and his team to develop long-term, strategic customer relationships and a global supply network second to none in the industry. He began his career in the oil & gas industry in 1978, working in various areas, including NDT inspection, field warehousing and oilfield transportation. Prior to joining Hallmark in 1991, Dale owned and operated an oilfield transportation company, and was President of a start-up oilfield services firm in St. John's , Newfoundland .

With dual degrees in industrial and graphic design from Carnegie Mellon University, Drew oversees the creative, marketing and product development. After working for Hallmark, Stuart Hall and an advertising agency, Drew joined Kendal King Group to grow and diversify the business. He introduced three-dimensional, POP displays to new clients and the growth has been four-fold since the mid-1990's. Drew designs daily and takes pride in winning new clients with his sketches and marketing strategies.

Gigi Carroll is an unbridled thinker and designated hitter for the Draft FCB Group around ideas and inspirations linked to (among other areas) women's behavior and the entertainment world. She is a veteran of ad agencies, the movie world, the promotion arena, and motherhood. Gigi is responsible for the creative strategy and ideation behind a wide ranging group of major female initiatives including the breakthrough "24/24 Milk Your Diet: Lose Weight" campaign (an effort that escalated selected milk sales close to 12 percent over the previous year in addition to winning upwards of 30+ awards); CVS Skin Effects new product line launch; launches and positioning for several P&G products; and the launch of a new product for a major pharmaceutical firm. Married and the mother of two young children, Gigi brings skills from soup to nuts to marketing. She has spent more than 20 years honing those skills as an innovator in advertising and promotions. As a leader in the Concept Group at Draft FCB Group, specializing in ideation, she has helped create additional innovative, successful campaigns for many other Draft FCB clients including Kellogg's and MasterfoodsUSA. Early in her career, which includes executive posts at promotional agencies Frankel and Simon Marketing, Gigi developed winning efforts for a long list of clients including Burger King, Chevron Oil, Hallmark, McDonald's, Old Navy, and Toys R Us. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Gigi possesses wide-eyed exuberance, a passion for redecorating, and the firm belief that taking risks is one of the unheralded joys in life.

Jim came to RESULTS as a process-focused operations solution provider with 12+ years of experience in identifying opportunities and providing technology-based solutions for organizations competing in the global marketplace. He provides exceptional strength in building and leading multidisciplinary operations and cross-functional teams within our highly competitive, market-driven industry. At RESULTS, he has proven his ability to build consensus and synthesize people, hardware, software, and resources in tailoring cost-effective solutions for internal and external customers. He is well-versed in infrastructure solutions such as network design, CRM, telephony, convergence, unified messaging, quality assurance, and process optimization. His background includes implementation, sales, account management, and project management functions for companies such as Allegiant Telecom, Ikon Educational Services, Tallgrass Technologies, Hallmark, and Gateway. Jim holds a BA in Business Administration from Park University in Kansas City, Missouri.

Joe Goulart has been with Hallmark for over 15 years and has served the company in several operational capacities. With over 20 years of industry experience, Joe dedicates himself to effectively manage an impressive portfolio of clients; overseeing day-to-day operations, client development and account maintenance - ensuring client satisfaction at each and every level. In addition, Joe also manages our Transition Team - which guarantees timely and organized account installations. Working closely with Joe to provide additional operational support is Roberto Lima, Assistant Operations Manager.

After an early career in retail management and consumer goods sales, John joined Hallmark, the world's largest greeting card company. Starting in sales and progressing through retail development, John became Development Director, Marketing Services Director and finally UK Managing Director in the early 90s. A period of self employed consultancy, including retail operations and career consulting work, led him to Penna plc, one of the UK's largest HR Consulting Groups. Initially delivering career coaching to senior managers, John joined the board of principle company Sanders & Sidney and held posts including UK Operations Director and Director of Business Architecture for the Penna Group. In this latter post he was responsible for the development of the UK's largest career development e-learning website. John formed realworldmanagement limited and has undertaken projects throughout the UK and Europe in the areas of strategic review, change implementation, service design, coaching and web service design.

Lyndsey MacKenzie is the Dispatcher responsible for Vancouver, North Vancouver, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Maple Ridge. Lyndsey has been with Hallmark since 2005.

CYNTHIA VAN RODEN, Hallmark's first Photo Editor, now manages its Photography Collection and team of photo editors, researchers and buyers. Recruited to edit over a million images she created a department and collection that now function as an in-house photo agency. She strategizes with Hallmark's in-house photo studio regarding shooting for the company's needs while keeping up-to-date on what can be acquired from the global marketplace. Cynthia has worked at The TIME/LIFE Picture Collection, SIPA Press, Conde Nast Traveler, Times Mirror Magazines and Fortune. She also consults with individual photographers on their portfolios, exhibitions, collections and rights.

Lisa Jones started in publishing at Rodale Inc., where she was most recently a Senior Associate Editor for Men's Health magazine and a contributing editor for Best Life magazine. She also contributed editing and planning to the launch and initial issues of Women's Health magazine. Her writing includes reported features, personal essays and celebrity profiles and has appeared in the publications listed, as well as in Runner's World magazine. She has appeared on the WB-11 Morning News, FOX 5's Good Day New York, and has done hundreds of radio spots nationwide.