MEET OUR TEAM
Equal parts family and facilitator.
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Bonni Burns
President
With over 35 years of experience in the marketing and broadcasting industries, Bonni brings an invaluable and universal knowledge of both business marketing and media strategy.
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Veronica Ambuehl
Vice President, Director of Client Services
Veronica acts as a vital support system to everything BAM does. She oversees all client work and develops strategies for our clients, while leading our teams through the execution phases of our strategic plans.
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Jordan Longhi
Vice President, Director of Digital
Jordan works alongside the digital marketing team on vision, strategy execution and optimization to create successful digital campaigns.
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Courtney Longhi
Vice President, Director of Media
As the head of BAM’s traditional media team, Courtney directs all functions of the department from strategic development and evaluation through implementation, while often managing multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns.
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Robin Reece-Hlava
Vice President, Business Development
As the Chief Growth Officer at BAM, Robin is an expert at identifying and implementing additional services that add value for existing clients, as well as building new client and partnership opportunities
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Jessica Williams
Director of Public Relations
Jessica leads all of our client’s earned media and strategic communications efforts. As an expert at generating positive free media exposure for our clients, her goal is to find strategic and creative ways to help clients communicate their messages clearly.
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Ryan McMichael
Executive Creative Director
Ryan brings over two decades of agency experience as a creative leader and award-winning copywriter for numerous iconic brands. At BAM, he leads our talented team and creative process, directing efforts across all clients.
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Brett Halbe
Director of Project Management
Brett works with BAM’s clients and the BAM team to organize and implement results-driven marketing plans at every stage – from strategy to execution.
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Sue Strubhart
Director of Agency Operations
With over 30 years of experience in account, production and project management Sue uses her expertise to take care of all the internal details of our business.
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Colleen Humphrey
Business Manager
Colleen provides integral support to BAM’s account managers while running the operations of the office and serving as our poet laureate. She processes all media invoices for BAM’s clients and manages the accounts payable and receivables for all advertising campaigns.
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Chris Rarick
Account Director
Chris Rarick serves as an accomplished Account Director at BAM, leveraging over two decades of experience in the St. Louis area. His role entails a deep immersion into clients’ businesses and industries, allowing him to tackle communication challenges adeptly.
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Kaci Beatty
Senior Account Manager
Kaci strives to create and implement successful, creative marketing strategies for our clients with a specialty in digital strategy.
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Julio Velazquez
Account Director
Julio helps oversee strategy and creative direction for BAM’s clients. He enjoys collaborating with clients and the BAM team to ensure the successful execution of their strategic, integrated marketing campaigns.
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Adam Chatman
Digital Marketing Manager
Adam works diligently to plan, implement and optimize strategic and multi-dimensional digital campaigns and strategies for BAM’s clients as part of our digital team.
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Christy Bockler
Media Manager
Christy brings over 30 years of experience planning and buying media for clients across diverse industries. She spearheads multifaceted marketing campaigns across all traditional and digital media channels skillfully steering them from inception to completion.
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Katy Sutton
Senior Media Buyer
Katy assists the team in working directly with media vendors, negotiating and placing buys, developing effective media strategies, executing media plans and optimizing the results of media campaigns—all with the best possible results for clients top of mind.
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Simonne Kimble
Media Specialist
As a key player on BAM’s Account Services team, Simonne assists with tasks and managing relationships on multiple accounts.
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Jana Stone
Media Coordinator
Jana is our do-it-all Media Coordinator who uses her prior banking operations experience to integrate our Media and Account teams into a best-in-class offering.
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Owen Gusewelle
Digital Marketing Strategist
As a part of our digital team, Owen helps develop and execute strategic social media plans, focusing on both paid and organic posts that maximize efficiency and success for any budget or goals our clients have.
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Megan St. Peters
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Megan is part of our Digital Marketing team and assists with developing and implementing strategies for social media, focusing on both paid and organic strategy so that we can help our clients achieve their goals and budgets.
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Abigail Diers
Digital Marketing Strategist
Abigail is a key player in BAM’s digital team, focusing on SEM and paid social media strategies for clients. Her expertise lies in keyword research, aligning user intent with client business offerings, and driving successful, data-driven campaigns.
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Stephanie Bryan
Public Relations Specialist
Stephanie is a part of our public relations team and assists our clients with all of their PR needs. Before joining our team, Stephanie spent 5 years working in newsrooms.
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Krishnan Collins
Public Relations Specialist
Krishnan is part of our public relations team and helps clients with a wide range of PR needs. Building his foundation in reporting, Krishnan tells compelling stories through press releases and other forms of engaging media to illustrate clients’ messages to the public.
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Marisa Jordan
Project Coordinator
Marisa acts as a liaison across all of the departments at BAM Marketing Agency. As a Project Coordinator, her role is to oversee all projects at BAM, ensuring everyone involved in a project has everything needed internally and externally.
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Kent Schuette
Human Resources
Kent is BAM’s Human Resources Director and motivational speaker. Kent takes care of all of the BAM employees by setting them up with the proper insurance, making sure everything in the office is up-to-date, and lifts up each individual employee with his great attitude.
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Jessica Kinnard
Creative Director
Jessica’s role as creative director at BAM is to provide clients with visual and creative solutions to their marketing needs. She is always challenging herself and never fears diving into something new.
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Tim Patek
Senior Graphic Designer
Tim has worked for BAM since 2011 and brings over 30 years of creative knowledge to our clients. His experience and understanding of the scope of creative implementation is an asset to BAM clients and their vision.
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Dustin Kent
Art Director
Dustin joined BAM in the summer of 2018 as a full-time graphic designer after interning with BAM. He creates effective and inventive designs for print, digital, video graphics and logos to best suit BAM’s clients’ needs.
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Patrick Jones
Senior Art Director
Patrick brings a versatile skill set to BAM's Creative Team, with experience in front end web development, UX/UI design, production design, web design, and art direction. The latter being his preference and forte. He loves a good creative opportunity with a chance to sprinkle in a little conceptual thinking.
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Jim Harper
Creative Consultant
Jim brings years of design experience and collaborative guidance to the BAM team to help elevate our brand work for clients.
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Wade Yamaguchi
Director of Video Production
My journey to becoming a cinematographer combined my love for different cultures, beautiful places and storytelling. Through hard work and my ability to be adaptable in any situation, I have been given numerous opportunities to work on projects across the globe.
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Devory Newsome
Videographer + Editor
Devory collaborates with BAM’s writers, designers, and project managers to develop and produce video and motion graphic content for BAM’s clients.