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| Artaic's Advisory Board |
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Bob Robbins, Founding Partner, Protobrand |
Bob has spent thirty years launching new companies and brands as well as transforming large multinational companies, He has helped numerous clients worldwide to achieve a strategic business advantage while optimizing the value of their brand equity. He lends his business acumen to all engagements especially those that require a strong understanding of the interplay between brand, business and culture. He has worked with CEO’s and executive teams for global consumer and business-to-business companies including Abott Laboratories, Kraft Foods, Exelon Energy, Partners Healthcare, RSA Security, Merrill Lynch, and Clarks of England. His activities with these companies span from vision and value proposition development to brand equity measurement and experience innovation.
Prior to Co-founding Protobrand, Bob served as Chief Operating Officer of BrandEquity International and Chief Branding Officer of Nexient Corporation. He has held senior management positions with BBDO Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather and J.C. Penney. As author and lecturer, he has been featured in leading communications and business publications including Marketing News, Brand Marketing, Sales and Marketing Magazine and Design Management Institute's Bulletin. He is a frequent speaker at leading industry events and conferences including Interbev, Design Management Institute, Massport, The International Mass Retailing Federation, Inc. Magazine's Executive Conference Series, and The Institute for International Research. Bob is a recipient of the highly coveted Grand EFFIE award for his work on the GE brand campaign "We Bring Good Things To Life". |
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| Jeffrey H. DeSantis, CEO Amici Imports |
Amici Imports, LLC was founded five years ago by its CEO Jeffrey H. DeSantis after 17 years as VP-Sales for one of the industry’s premiere companies.
Amici Imports has developed fully programmed lines of Hand-Made and Machine-Made Area Rugs from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Italy. Amici Imports also manufactures and imports their own line of pillows, throws and fabrics from Italy, as well as manufacturing bath and towel products from India, which are distributed in over 20 countries throughout Europe and Asia.
Amici Imports has strategically sequenced into a design and manufacturing source providing design services, new texture resource, color forecasting, and logistics support for some of the largest flooring wholesale companies and mass market retailers in the United States. Amici currently has offices and showrooms in Toronto, Atlanta and Lebanon, New Jersey and a manufacturing wing based in Delhi India which handles all Amici production. |
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David D. Gammell, Partner, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP |
| Mr. Gammell advises entrepreneurial companies in all stages of development, from formation to liquidity. He has extensive experience in corporate finance, venture capital, intellectual property, licensing and strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and international law. Mr. Gammell counsels publicly and privately held companies in a variety of industries including information technology (hardware, software and services), semiconductor, medical device and other high technology sectors. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Gammell was a nuclear engineer and officer in the US Navy. |
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