The Master Marketers 
Brian Gibson
Executive Consultant, Marketing Coach, Senior Partner & Founder
As a Professional Marketing Consultant and Speaker Brian is responsible for the timely delivery and implementation of high-quality Marketing Programs, Marketing Strategies and Marketing Conferences to a variety of business clientele across the Nation. He travels around 100,000 miles a year and he is in constant demand as a Consultant and a Speaker. Brian consults and teaches Marketing and Business Development to business and marketing executives in various industries through consulting, private seminars and public seminars.
As an Author, Speaker & Consultant he has a unique combination of simple, straightforward, high-impact techniques, that makes his material profitable, fresh, and easy to apply.
Brian's Credits:
He wrote the national best-selling seminar and book, "Doing Business on the Internet"
He wrote the best selling conference and book, "Creative Marketing"
He wrote the popular seminar and book, "E-Commerce Essentials"
He wrote the popular seminar and book, "How to Write a Successful E-Commerce Business Plan"
He has toured and worked in over 96 countries, 13 cruise ships and 45 States from Alaska to Florida and Maine to Southern California
He has appeared on Television in: London England, Bangkok Thailand, Rio, Brazil & Caracas Venezuela
He was born in England. Nationality: American
A Partial List Of Organizations That Have Benefited From Brian's Expertise:
AAA
AETNA LIFE & CASUALTY
ALABAMA POWER
ALLSTATE INSURANCE
AMERICAN CYNAMID
AMERICAN EXPRESS
ATLANTIC BANK
AT&T
BELL SOUTH MOBILITY
BOEING
BURDINES
CARGILL/NUTRENA
CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE
CELLULAR ONE
CIA
CITI GROUP
CITY OF DALLAS
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
DEPT AIR FORCE
DEPT OF ARMY
DEPT OF DEFENSE
DEPT OF NAVY
DUPONT
EMBASSY SUITES
EPA
FBI
FEDEX
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
BF GOODRICH
GTE
HALLMARK CARDS
HARRAH'S RESORT & CASINO
HARRIS SEMICONDUCTOR
HITACHI
IBM
IRS
KELLY TEMPORARY SERVICES
KROGER
LENS CRAFTERS
LEVI STRAUSS
LIBERTY MUTUAL
LOCKHEED
KELLY TEMPORARY SERVICES
KROGER
LOCKHEED
MARRIOTT
MARTIN MARIETTA
MCI
MCORMACK
MONSANTO CHEMICAL
NASA
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
NCR
NESTLE FOODS
PROCTOR & GAMBLE
PRUDENTIAL
JC PENNEY
QUAKER OATS
ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE
RYDER TRUCK RENTAL
STATE FARM
STENNIS SPACE CENTER
SUN BANK
TEXACO
TRAMMEL CROW
TREASURY DEPT
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
UNIVERSITY OF OHIO
UPS LEASING
USPS
USA TODAY
WESTINGHOUSE
XEROX CORPORATION
Originally from England, Brian currently resides in the South Florida area with his family.
Norbert Rigendinger
Executive Consultant, Marketing Coach & Senior Partner
Norbert Rigendinger is an international banking and marketing executive with expertise in strategic planning, marketing projects, investment analysis, business development, startup, team building and development, leadership, and reorganization. He optimized sales forces for Credit Suisse (Switzerland's #2 international bank) in Latin America, Miami, and Houston. Norbert is fluent in, English, French, German and Spanish.
As regional manager Latin America and a member of senior management out of Miami, Norbert led the development and marketing of Credit Suisse's private banking business in Latin America. He grew acquisition of new assets from $525 million to $2.3 billion annually within 5 years. He had to deal with a frozen headcount for the sales force at 36 over the entire period.
After 1999, as a result of organizational realignment that provided more incentive to leave than stay, Norbert chose to offer his services and expertise as an Executive Consultant and Marketing Coach to a selected range of his domestic and international business relations. Familiar with effective marketing strategies and systems he successfully consults expanding businesses and startup companies. He opened the US market to European exporters in various industries. His professional experience also includes profound knowledge of the insurance industry when he worked for the Swiss National Insurance Company in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Norbert's education includes a marketing program for senior executives at INSEAD University in Fontainebleau, France.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (since 1970)
MONOPOLIZE MARKETING 2001 - Present
Executive Consultant & Marketing Coach based in South East Florida
Successful consulting to expanding businesses and startup companies - domestic
and international strategies . Opened the US market to European exporters in
various industries.
CREDIT SUISSE Miami, Florida 1994 - 2000
Regional Manager Latin America, Member Senior Management (Director)
Led the development and marketing of Private Banking Business in Latin America for Credit Suisse. Grew acquisition of new assets from $525 Million to $2.3 Billion annually with front office staff of 36.
CREDIT SUISSE Zurich 1991 - 1994
Deputy Manager of the Division Private Banking International, Planning & Support
Headed the strategic planning of expanding private banking into Latin America.
CREDIT SUISSE Basel 1976 - 1991 Head of Foreign Private and Institutional Client Sections (Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany)
LABHARDT & CO. Banquiers, Basle1970 - 1976 Stock Exchange and Floor Dealer, Investment Advisor, Forex
Originally from Basle, Switzerland, Norbert currently resides in the South Florida area with his family.
JoAnn Corley
Executive Consultant & Management Coach 
JoAnn Corley is a dynamic seasoned speaker, trainer and workforce development consultant. She has spoken to thousands across North America specializing in conducting workshops on Creativity, Effective Leadership, The Power of Communication and Team Management.
She is co-author of the book, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Success and creator of the recently launched Bite-size Training Solutions, a 24/7 on-demand portable learning resource for busy professionals.
Ms. Corley utilizes her 20 plus years of business experience, expertise in the knowledge of work functions and thousands of hours of human behavior coaching to consult in areas such as organizational design, creative and innovative thinking, management development and adaptive leadership strategies.
She is known by her clients as insightful, passionate and an acute strategic thinker as she assists them in reaching their targeted outcomes.
Ms. Corley founded Convergence Consulting Group in 1998, a human resource-organizational development firm, which has provided services to a variety of industries such as; accounting & finance, engineering, government, staffing, risk management and sales to name a few.
Variety also describes the type of coaching clients Ms. Corley has helped over the years, which have included: governmental leaders, scientists, engineers, ph.d.s, executives, finance and accounting consultants, mid-level managers and small business owners.
The scope of her work has included advisor to a chief executive on management training and succession planning, strategic planning and execution management for city government, developing key leaders and managers, performance coaching for employees with interpersonal difficulties and communications coaching for technical professionals.
She then took consulting and coaching experience on the road conducting seminars and workshops all over North America and Puerto Rico. She has spoken to and trained thousands of people and in every major city in the U.S.
Partial Client List
U.S. Marshals Service
U.S. Army, Ft Hood, TX
U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Lockheed Martin
Northrup Grummun
University of Iowa
University of Texas
Trump Enterprises
Microsoft
3M Corporation
Penn DOT
Duke University
City of Chicago
City of Kissimmee, Florida
Ranstad Corporation
Raovac
Feld Enterprises
Virginia Beach Public Library System
U.S. Navy
Federal Express
Subaru USA
Siemens
American Red Cross
Brown County School District
Parson Group
Conference Board, Toronto
State of Hawaii
Budget Rent a Car- Puerto Rico
Coke
Quaker Oats
Chicago Tribune
Robert Modavi
Knox College
McDonald's Corp.
Taco Bell
Aetna
Blue Cross - Blue Shield
Bed, Bath & Beyond
Caterpillar
Zondervan
Harley-Davidson
Marsh & McLennan
Wyeth
Emory University
Douglas E. Curtis
Business Growth Strategist (Chief Rainmaker)
Mr. Curtis has served in various senior management positions for the past 16 years. He has an uncompromising ability to drive corporations to profitability in startup, turn-around, and high-growth situations. He has provided the strategic vision and tactical ability to maximize shareholder value, enhance P&L scenarios, build dedicated teams, and penetrate competitive markets.
Through experience and educational pursuits, he is recognized as a specialist in sales, marketing, business development, strategic planning, strategic partnering, product/brand development, and direct response strategies to champion new products and back-end sales.
Douglas Curtis, Certified Consultant, offers strategic counsel, business-building ideas and tactical direct-response implementation for health, software, financial, marine, and engineering industries. He is a certified entrepreneur advisor with Grow America Foundation and coaches business owners in raising capital. Mr. Curtis is a popular lecturer, workshop presenter and author.
He was formerly Exec.VP of Get Total Wellness where he launched and managed the health and wellness information based e-commerce websites with personalized, natural treatment solutions; Director of Global Marketing for Valueweb web hosting; Senior VP for Asset management Securities and executive producer for over 811 live, half-hour financial news and information weekly TV talk shows, entitled Talk About Money (FOX) and Financial Freedom (PBS), additionally syndicating the expansion of both from the West Palm Beach market to over 42 million TV households nationwide; producing over 4,000 radio and TV commercials and over 17 million direct mail pieces that have generated millions of dollars in sales results for his clients.
He served from 2000 to 2002 as Director of Marketing for ValueWeb, Inc., one of the top three Web hosting providers in the world. He leveraged the global strategy and critical initiatives to build the marketing department from scratch and expanded the single product line to three product lines within four months.
He managed ten key strategic partnerships with such companies as Adobe, Card Service International, Cobalt Networks, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Network Solutions. Mr. Curtis launched two new high ARPU Web hosting products that generated a 67% and 50% higher monthly recurring revenue with only a 15% higher cost. He recruited the Database Management Analysis team, developed the new CRM Strategies, and Reseller Channels to increase the growth by 66% over the previous year.
Preceding being recruited to ValueWeb, he served as VP Marketing for a start-up company launching the marketing campaign that provided telecom contract negotiation services and closed $6 million in sales with 12% net revenue within 9 months.
From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Curtis was Senior VP of Marketing for Asset Management Securities, Inc. and executed the strategy that branded and positioned the broker dealer as one of the south’s leading private, independent marketers of financial services. He generated an additional $300 million in assets under management and accelerated income by 74% in five years. He paved the way to $60 million of new assets under management annually that produced a 72% increase in clients in four years.
During his tenure, he reduced the time of the new account sales cycle and gained an additional $3 million a month in assets. Additionally, he presented financial and consumer economic issues in a clear and easy to understand way by creating a CRM program with monthly newsletters, quarterly video updates, and over 100 annual seminars. His programs upgraded the quality of the prospect's net worth by 45% while reducing client attrition to less than 2%.
Mr. Curtis initiated his MA in Communications from the University of Miami with postgraduate courses from the University of Pittsburgh, a Masters Teaching Credential from Cal Western, San Diego and a BA from Hobart College, NY.
Partial List of Previous Clients:
ABC
Adobe
AIM Mutual Funds
Alcoa
Americlean
Arvida
Asset Management Securities
Avodagro Environmental
Barnett Bank
Barry Financial Group
Boca Raton Hotel
Bimini Bay Resort
Blockbuster Video
Burger King
Card Service International
Caterpillar
Cat Cay Club
Chase
CBS
CNN
Cobalt Networks
Coca Cola
Checkrobot
Coleman Medical Consulting Group
Coulter Electronics
Customer Motivators
Cybergate
Cruisair
Discovery
Dometic Environmental
Delaware Investments
Dental Care Group
Fidelity Investments
Federated Investors
Eisenhower Hospital
Eternal pictures
Exit Realty of Kentucky
Film Media Associates
Filmmakers Group
FOX
Franklin Templeton Funds
Frenchman’s Reef Resort & Hotel
Get Total Wellness
Gulf Oil
Hawks Cay Resort
Hilton Johnson Productions
Innovative Medical Delivery Services
Intel
JM Family
John Deere
Jonathan’s Landing
Lighthouse Point Yacht & Racquet Club
Kodak
Lexus
Gillette
IBM
IBP
Marineair
Microcap 1000
Microsoft
McDonalds
Minnesota Power
Miva Merchant
Morrison Hershfield
Nationwide Insurance
NBC
Nemacolin Resort
Network Solutions
PBS
PGA
PGA National
Phillip Morris
Professional Training Services
Rockwell International
Rosebud Productions
Sheraton
Southeastern Toyota
Sonesta Sanibel Resort & Hotel
Success Magazine
Telematics
Trailways
US Freightways
Valueweb
Visual Health & Surgical Centers
Weather Channel
Wellness and Longevity Centre
Westinghouse
Originally from Ohio, Doug moved from Hawaii to the South Florida area where he now lives with his family.
Lori Barnett
Executive Assistant
Lori has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe with her husband, Major Patrick Barnett of the United States Air Force and their three children.
Being on the move for several years, Lori adapted quickly to the changing environments. She became a flexible and seasoned support person for executives in different industries. Her ability to quickly understand new previously unknown businesses and procedures and to communicate with their executives is very appreciated by all. Her positive personality combined with her computer skills allow her to play a valued part in all client projects and businesses.
Current Professional Experience:
Client Research
Email List Management
Client Transcriptions
Live and Recorded Client Survey Calls
Web-based Client Surveys
Adjusting and Updating of Client Databases
Organizing Clients’ Hopper Systems
Scheduling and Sending Of Email Newsletters
Client Liaison
General & Administrative
Previous Professional Experience
Administrative Assistant to 2 District Sales Managers - Columbus, OH
Secretarial Staff - Westerville, OH
Administrative Assistant to President and Vice President - Dayton, OH
Member of Secretarial Team for vendor to the Alaska Pipeline
Data Entry for the Space Shuttle Launch Complex 6 - Vandenberg AFB, CA
Lead Word Processor – Vendor - Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
Secretary - International Banking – Dayton, OH
Accounts Payable Department - Dayton, OH
Originally from Ohio, Lori currently resides in the Seattle, Washington area with her family.
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