Your Alamo Colleges Team

We’re a team of talented and experienced people. We’re a collection of creative individuals who come from different backgrounds and experiences, but are united in our dedication to coming up with great ideas and unique approaches. We work hard but have fun doing it. We look forward to providing the Anderson service platform to Alamo Colleges for many years to come.

    The rest of the fine folks at Anderson

    Chuck Anderson

    CEO

    One of the original founders of Anderson Marketing Group, Chuck has overseen both creative and account service duties on many accounts, from planning through implementation. Chuck graduated from Wabash College with a BA before spending two years with the Pentagon’s Naval Office of Information as Press Information Briefer, reporting directly to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A past president of the San Antonio Advertising Federation and Silver Award Medal recipient, Chuck is also an International Film Festival Award Winner and two-time Clio Finalist. His involvement on key accounts includes interfacing with chief executives and business leaders throughout the community, creative direction for broadcast productions and marketing planning for many AMG accounts. Chuck has been instrumental in developing overall branding and positioning strategies for a number of accounts.

    Ken Clegg - CFO

    Ken Clegg

    CFO

    Soeurette Shook-Kelly

    Soeurette Shook-Kelly

    Director of Corporate Development

    Soeurette Shook-Kelly is just as competitive in business as she is on the tennis court. Don’t take her up on a “friendly” game on the hard court. Trust us. Soeurette has over 25 years experience in marketing and advertising, including categories such as higher education, QSR (YUM! Brands – Pizza Hut, KFC), banking (Broadway Bank) and transit (VIA Metropolitan Transit).

    In her nine years at AMG, Soeurette has managed the account service department, along with leading the agency’s business development activities. She is a specialist in managing local, regional, and national brands, including a variety of our high profile accounts such as Alamo Colleges, Zio’s Italian Kitchen, Furr’s Fresh Buffet, Hyatt, and Joeris General Contractors.

    Throughout her career, she has been appointed to various task forces, including the National Hispanic Taskforce and the Marketing Advisory Committee (MAC) for Pizza Hut, Inc. She specializes in strategic planning and brand development and is a past board member of the American Advertising Federation. Soeurette’s love of animals can only be rivaled by her love of good oral hygiene.

    Henri-Ann Reynolds

    Henri-Ann Reynolds

    Vice President / Media Director

    Henri-Ann Reynolds, our Vice President and Media Director, has been with Anderson for 34 years. After graduating from UT Austin (Hook ‘em!), she worked as an administrative assistant for a radio/television broadcasting company in Harlingen, Texas, and then returned to San Antonio. After landing her first agency gig, she worked with local, regional, and national accounts purchasing in both the general and Hispanic markets.

    She has a variety of category experience working including tourism (New Braunfels CVB, Hyatt Resorts, La Quinta Inns), higher education (Alamo Colleges, UT Brownsville, Texas A&M Corpus Christi), food service (Pace Picante, Pioneer Flour Mills, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Coors), and B-to-B (SAEDF and King Ranch).

    Chris Pawlik - Creative Director

    Chris Pawlik

    Creative Director

    Chris has over 20 years experience in advertising and design. As AMG’s Creative Director, he provides global creative vision and direction for each client. He has extensive experience developing creative campaigns in print, online and broadcast to a wide variety of audiences and categories. Chris has worked with higher education (Alamo Colleges, University of Texas at Brownsville), retail (O’Krent’s Flooring), tourism/travel (Hyatt Resorts), food service (Zio’s Italian Kitchen), beer (Freetail Brewing Company, Bridgeport Brewing, Trumer Pils) and non-profit clients (Texas Baptists).

    Dirk Ronk

    Dirk Ronk

    Associate Creative Director

    A rare jewel in the advertising world, Dirk has over four decades of experience as both a copywriter and an art director. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Dirk has been part of the AMG team for almost 30 years, and excels at developing unique concepts while bringing a wealth of knowledge to all aspects of the creative process.

    Through his 40 plus years in advertising, he’s worked with big names like Hyatt Resorts, Valero Energy, Pace Foods, Pepsi-Cola, and Frost Bank. His current duties include copywriting and concept development for a variety of accounts including the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, Alamo Colleges, and the Cavender Automotive Group. Some say that if you get into the office early enough, he can be heard singing and playing his guitar, but these reports are unconfirmed.

    Reed Hartman

    Reed Hartman

    Copywriter

    Reed Hartman graduated from UT San Antonio in 2014 with a bachelor’s in Classical Studies. After wondering what he could do with a degree in ancient Mediterranean history, he found his way into marketing in a local digital firm, and then worked client side for an engineering company. After not too long, he realized that an agency was the place to be, and began working as a copywriter for Anderson. Reed mostly has experience in new media, ranging from blog writing, preparing website copy and managing social media accounts. He has experience working with clients in healthcare, retail, and education.

    Tom Sullivan

    Tom Sullivan

    Production Manager

    Tom Sullivan is an industry veteran with over 35 years under his belt. He has a variety of experience in printing and in-house marketing and serves as our production manager. Throughout his career, Tom has overseen production for a wide array of brands from national and global giants such as Budweiser, Modelo, and Pace Foods to local and regional names such as Pioneer Flour Mills, SAEDF, and the Texas Baptists. Tom also has a green thumb, which explains his agricultural leaning and attendance at Texas A&M University.

    Melissa Elledge - Accounting

    Melissa Elledge

    Accounting

    A graduate of Regis College in Boston (Go Red Sox!), Melissa has worked in a number of roles during her tenure at AMG. She broke into the advertising world as a receptionist and administrative assistant, then moved on to experience life as agency Traffic Manager and Account Executive. In August 2015, she returned to her weird love of spreadsheets and now enjoys her role in the AMG accounting department.

    Kirsten Forkheim - Account Executive

    Kirsten Forkheim

    Account Executive

    Kirsten is a graduate of the UT San Antonio with a BA in Public Relations, and has worked with a variety of clients since joining AMG, including Alamo Colleges, South Texas Medical Center, and the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center. Her PR background gives her a unique perspective in looking for consumer engagement opportunities that extend to promotional events, social media platforms and beyond.

    Tiffany Albrecht - Traffic Manager

    Tiffany Albrecht

    Traffic Manager

    Tiffany keeps projects moving along as AMG’s Traffic Manager. She is an advertising industry veteran since 2005 and also has account executive experience in the print industry. Tiffany attended the Alamo Colleges working on her Early Childhood Education degree while also holding down a full time job at a printer. This experience provided her a platform to move to the advertising side of the business which became her passion.

    Jen Fuentes

    Jen Fuentes

    Art Director

    Jen Fuentes is a super talented & sassy art director who graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from Columbia College Chicago. She has over eight years of design experience, but that’s not important. What is important is that she can fly, but not for a long time. Just for short distances like an ostrich or chicken. Her hobbies include Instagram stalking, robbing banks, ruining movies for her boyfriend, and keeping up with the Kardashians. Not the TV show, she just enjoys keeping them in check.

    Rick Morrison

    Production Artist

    Julius Germano

    Julius Germano

    COO

    Julius is a proud graduate of UT Austin with a BA in Communications (Radio – TV). During his time at UT, he served as national president of Alpha Epsilon Rho, an honor society for electronic media students. After his active service in Vietnam and honorable discharge from the United States Army-where he received both the Army Commendation and Vietnam Service Medals-Julius started his career in advertising working for a variety of television and radio stations in South Texas, including serving as Vice President for Spanish International Network (now Univision).

    A past president of the San Antonio Advertising Federation, Governor 10th District and Silver Award Medal recipient, he has been with AMG since 1982, serving as Account Executive, President, and currently Chief Operating Officer and Partner. Julius has managed some of the agency’s longest held accounts and is our resident “car guy” serving as account supervisor on the Cavender dealerships since 1983.

    Kim Gresham

    Kim Gresham

    President

    A thirty-year veteran of the ad agency industry, Kim has expertise in all facets of marketing and advertising including brand positioning, media strategy and public relations. A graduate of Butler University with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing Communications, Kim has developed marketing programs for a diverse client list ranging from retail to manufacturers and business-to-business operations. Specializing in strategic planning, Kim has been with AMG for over twenty years. Her primary responsibility is overseeing operations and all account activity at the agency. Kim is a Leadership San Antonio graduate and past member of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

    Antonio Garza

    Antonio Garza

    Interactive Director

    Antonio leads the AMG interactive and web team. A graduate of UT Austin, he started his advertising career over 16 years ago in account service, and has managed multiple accounts representing a variety of industries such as banking (Wells Fargo, Broadway Bank, Bank of San Antonio), consumer package goods (McCormick & Company) and wine & spirits (Jack Daniels, Tuaca, Sonoma-Cutrer).

    Since 2006, Antonio has handled a large array of AMG clients including the Valero Alamo Bowl, San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, SAEDF, and Freetail Brewing Company, As Director of AMG’s Interactive Department, he is responsible for leading the creation of all client web strategies, including website development, search engine optimization and marketing, email marketing, and evaluation of competitive intelligence and social analytics.

    Steve Caraghan

    Steve Caraghan

    IT

    Laraine Pofsky

    Laraine Pofsky

    Executive Assistant

    Letty Reinholt - Senior Account Executive

    Letty Reinholt

    Senior Account Executive

    Letty has over 15 years of experience as an Account Executive working with national and local brands. After graduating from UT Austin with a BBA in Marketing, she began her career in advertising, working with such brands as the Texas Lottery, Gatorade, Mars, JCPenney, and many more. In her time with AMG, she has worked on a variety of accounts including Zio’s Italian Kitchen, O’Krent’s Abbey Flooring Center, and Fantastic Sams. She may be an account executive, but she has a creative side as well, designing and sewing Halloween costumes for herself and her family.

    Sylvia Treviño - Media Planning & Buying

    Sylvia Treviño

    Media Planner & Buyer

    Sylvia has over 17 years experience in the advertising industry. Over the years, she has worked on a number of Hispanic and general market accounts, including the CDC, Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration and the Tourism Board for Nuevo Leon (Mexico). Inquisitive by nature, Sylvia is always looking for new and creative ways to reach our clients’ target audiences in the most efficient way possible. She has a vast amount of experience placing national, regional and local TV, radio, outdoor, print and online buys for QSRs (Zio’s & Furr’s), automotive dealers (Cavender Auto Group), higher education (Alamo Colleges), and retail accounts (O’Krent’s). Sylvia is a music aficionado and enjoys creating one of the most genre-varied playlists in the history of Spotify.

    Mary Aaron - Senior Art Director

    Marialuisa Aaron

    Senior Art Director

    Marialuisa is a versatile art director and designer who has over 30 years experience in advertising. A graduate of the Art Institute of Houston with a degree in Advertising Design, Marialuisa joined the Anderson team in 1999. Over the course of her career she has worked on a number of different categories including healthcare (University Hospital), sports & entertainment (Spurs Sports & Entertainment), transit (VIA Metropolitan Transit) and banking & financial services (Broadway Bank, the Bank of San Antonio). Her experience also allows her to understand nuances in competitive environments as she has lead creative teams on assignments at the local, regional, national and international level. Currently, Marialuisa works on a variety of agency accounts including Porter Loring Mortuaries, Texas Baptists, Cavender Auto Group, South Texas Blood and Tissue Center and Furr’s Fresh Buffet. While she loves what she does for a living, she has been known for concocting creatively elaborate schemes for watching international soccer matches while at work. Yellow Card Marialuisa!

    Deborah Gisi

    Deborah Gisi

    Receptionist

    Wayne McWilliams

    Wayne McWilliams

    Senior Web Developer

    As lead web developer for AMG, Wayne brings a wealth of knowledge of WordPress – and a trained singing voice – to our team. Wayne is a talented designer/WordPress front-end developer who excels at developing custom WordPress websites from scratch. He is unique in that he has the skill set to not only design, but also fully program customized WordPress websites, which makes him a true asset to our team. Always keeping the end user in mind, his development priority is for an easy user experience on any device or platform. Wayne is proficient in HTML5, CSS3, jQuery techniques, WordPress PHP, along with the knowledge to build with current SEO strategies in mind. Wayne has over 5 years experience in web development and is a graduate of the University of the Incarnate Word with a BFA in Computer Graphic Arts.

    Laci Wiede - Senior Account Executive

    Laci Wiede

    Senior Account Executive

    Laci, a graduate of the University of North Texas with a BS in Advertising, has over 12 years experience in the industry. Her obsession with food works well with her client experience, as she has represented clients like YUM! Brands (Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell), FMP (Zio’s, Furr’s, Don Pablo’s), and IHOP. Her account experience at AMG also includes the Texas Baptists, the University of Texas at Brownsville and the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.

    In her spare time Laci loves spending time with her husband and two young sons, having staring contests with a family of domesticated raccoons in her backyard, and monitoring the caloric intake of her portly cat – Chili.

    Jacqueline Yarrington

    Jacqueline Yarrington

    Senior Account Executive

    Jacqueline has spent over 14 years in account service. Her category experience covers everything from Banking & Financial (Wells Fargo, Bank of San Antonio) to Insurance (UnitedHealthcare, Germani Insurance) and Utilities (Brownsville Public Utilities Board ,TXU Energy). She is a graduate of Texas State where this overachiever double majored in Mass Communications and Spanish. She is also a new mom and one of many dog lovers at AMG.  Jacqueline is experienced in both general market and Hispanic advertising and marketing, and has managed local, regional and national accounts. She serves as account lead on a variety of AMG clients including Airrosti Rehab Centers, Elite Care 24-hour Emergency Rooms, and the Ecumenical Center.

    Janet Hancock - Media Planning & Buying

    Janet Hancock

    Media Planner & Buyer

    Janet, our resident mah-jongg addict, has over 25 years of media planning and placement experience, mostly with Anderson Marketing Group. A proud graduate of UT Austin (Hook’Em) with a BS in Communications, she has experience on a wide variety of categories including automotive (Cavender Auto Group), banking, healthcare, retail (O’Krent’s Flooring), and higher education (Alamo Colleges). Janet also has an incredible knack for coordinating great office celebrations.

    Tiffany Gabaldon - Senior Art Director

    Tiffany Gabaldon

    Senior Art Director

    Tiffany Gabaldon has over 10 years of industry experience, seven of which have been spent with AMG. Marketing is the latest in her long line of career paths, as she is, in fact, immortal. Born in 1524 in the highlands of Scotland (this explains her love of whiskey), she discovered her powers after being stabbed during battle with a rival tribe. In the late 1970s, she moved to the United States and settled in New York. A movie based on her life was released in 1986. She became bored with New York and moved to Texas – the hill country reminded her of home – where she attended the University of the Incarnate Word and received a BA in Computer Graphic Design. 

    She is well-versed in designing for new media & web, along with creating award-winning campaigns for clients such as the South Texas Medical Center, San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, Valero Alamo Bowl, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation and the University of Texas at Brownsville. When she’s not designing killer marketing materials, Tiffany can be found playing with her chocolate labs, Jager and Shiner, and doing anything outdoors.

    Orlando Villaseñor - Web Developer

    Orlando Villaseñor

    Web Developer

    Orlando has created web-based solutions for a variety of marketing problems for over five years. He is a full-stack web developer and continues to learn and incorporate new technologies, libraries, APIs, and frameworks into projects. Orlando attended UT Austin, and is a graduate of Code Up, an intense training program for software engineers. He has experience using different frameworks such as AngularJS, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, WordPress, and Laravel (MVC) for PHP.

    His client experience includes development work for Freetail Brewing Company, Salons by JC, The Ecumenical Center, and the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation.

    Nick Rivas - Art Director

    Nick Rivas

    Art Director

    Nick Rivas is an eight-year industry veteran whose tricks with Adobe Photoshop are almost as gnarly as his tricks with a skateboard. A graduate of the International Academy of Design & Technology (now Sanford-Brown University), he has worked with a number of clients in his career, including Tri-Lin Integrated Services and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. During his four years at Anderson, he’s created killer designs for brands like Protection Engineering Consultants, Big State Electric, Zio’s and the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.

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