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	MANAGEMENT Chris Beebe, Principal Chris has extensive non-profit, design, event planning, corporate training, sales and fund raising experience. She was selected as one of six people nationally for the March of Dimes executive management training program. While with the March of Dimes, Chris was Director of Walk America which raised $1.2 million for the organization. She also opened the Long Beach, CA office of the Arthritis Foundation, secured three years of free office space and built its Board of Directors. While there she was responsible for developing and administering the budget, developing marketing materials, coordinating publicity and public speaking opportunities, spearheading volunteer development and training, and directing organizational planning and event strategy. In the for-profit world, Chris utilized her Advertising and Design degree from the American Academy of Art serving five years as a packaging and merchandising designer. For 12 years, Chris has focused on business development, account management and driving sales to Fortune 500 companies. Chris brings to theVisionaryAgency a wide array of sales and account management experience including: strategic and consultative selling, Corporate Visions sales messaging, creative selling techniques, sales presentation skills and training, RFI creation and delivery, cold calling and plain old pavement pounding. Chris sits on the Board of Directors for the Greater Aurora, Illinois Chamber of Commerce. Leah Burdick, Principal For 9.5 years, Leah served as a marketing executive in various capacities at one of the world's largest corporate real estate firms (annual revenues of $2B). During her tenure, her positions ranged from Vice President, Director of Marketing for the Project and Development Services group (with annual revenues of $120M) to Director of Americas Corporate Marketing. Her skills include brand strategy and competitive differentiation; online marketing, program development, implementation and management; special event and conference planning; and corporate training. Her creative agency experience includes tenure at a multicultural advertising agency in New York City where her clients included Disney, American Airlines, General Electric, EDS, Scholastic Books and Qantas Airlines, among others. On the event side she has produced events ranging from professional comedy shows to corporate concerts to business seminars to prestigious dinners for heads of state. For nine years, Leah was a professional comedienne in New York, Los Angeles and the Southwest, and she has taught classes in comedy writing and performance.