Peggy Wilson is a Florida native and graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale with a degree in advertising and design, Peggy Wilson has over 18 years of advertising and marketing experience in Southwest Florida. With the rare ability to meld innate conceptual skill with strategies that achieve each client’s marketing goals, she has raised the bar on creative standards in the marketplace. As owner of Wilson Creative Group, Inc., Peggy pushes the envelope everyday, on behalf of her diverse clients, including numerous charitable organizations. Those such as: the Naples Children & Education Foundation’s, world-renowned Naples Winter Wine Festival, The American Cancer Society’s Cattle Baron’s Ball of Fort Myers and The Children’s Museum of Naples. 

Peggy Wilson

Her strengths are in strategic development, creating and managing brand identities and producing a broad spectrum of marketing communications materials, including; print collateral, radio and television broadcast, website development, mass transit, billboard signage and sales center design.  The results speak for themselves: her work has been recognized with countless awards from the local and regional ADDY’s as well as the Building Industry Associations of Lee and Collier counties.

Katie Garner

Katie Garner is a nationally recognized speaker, author and educational consultant whose work targeting Reading and the Brain has gained national recognition with both the No Child Left Behind and the Reading First Initiatives.

As a member of Harvard University’s Distinguished Learning and the Brain Consortium Faculty, Katie combines 20 years of teaching experience with her creative Juilliard background in voice and language studies to shift the existing paradigms within the field of education – specifically in regard to literacy instruction.  Her practical and proven methods for effectively underscoring traditional reading and writing instruction with the latest brain research has been credited as literally “teaching teachers a new way to teach!”

Melba Moore

Melba Moore began her career in the groundbreaking musical “Hair,” where she originated the role of Dionne. During her 18 months in the show, she eventually replaced Dianne Keaton, becoming the first black actress to replace a white actress is a lead role on Broadway. Tony Award winner Melba Moore is currently co-starring in the national tour of “Brooklyn, the Musical.”

Her credits include “The Melba Moore/Clifton Davis Show,” the mini-series “Ellis Island,” R&B and pop hits “This Is It,” “You Stepped Into My Life” and her Grammy nominated signature song, “Lean On Me.” Her 1990 recording of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was instrumental in having the song entered into the Congressional Record as the official African American National Anthem.

Dan Bruder

Dan Bruder has a broad range of experience exhibiting talents in Organizational Leadership, Strategic Planning, Salesand Marketing Execution and Finance.  He successfully applied his talents initially in the banking industry becoming President of an independent bank in his 20s and later transitioning into resort real estate and general brokerage real estate.

He has a history of turning underperforming assets into successful operations by encouraging positive change through people, product and process with a focus on connecting consumers to the product they desire.  This disciplined approach has provided Mr. Bruder with the opportunity to spearhead change in nearly every facet of real estate including single family residential, condominium hotels, shared ownership and private membership clubs.  He has been fortunate to be a part of some of the most recognized Fortune 100 organizations with global reach along with smaller entrepreneurial companies integrating into local communities.

Ann Subervi

Ann Subervi has more than two decades of experience conducting successful public relations campaigns in a variety of industries. She has worked in both large and small agency environments as well as in a corporate setting. In 1995, Ann founded Danlee Public Relations, which was quickly ranked as the fourth largest agency in the state of New Jersey by “PR Week Magazine.”Ann sold the agency to STC Integrated Marketing in 2000 and managed the transition of staff and accounts for one year. She then joined KCSA, the nation’s 11th largest independent public and investor relations agency, where she assumed the role of managing director for the public relations division. During her tenure, KCSA was voted one of the nation’s top 10 agencies to work for.

Maxie Carpenter

During his 27-year career with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Maxie Carpenter pioneered programs specific to creating simple and relevant operational processes, and assisted in the creation and implementation of mentoring, succession planning and people measurement processes that helped identify Wal-Mart as world-class relevant to the depth and quality of its management pool and the retention of its workforce.

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