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Our
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James
Armstrong
President,
James Armstrong & Associates, Inc
Jim Armstrong founded
James Armstrong & Associates, Inc. during December,
1999 to serve the needs of a limited number of clients
in the Central part of the US and Canada. The idea was
to provide a senior level of representation to consumer
and trade magazines, newspapers, on-line opportunities,
trade shows and other events plus research vendors,
which could not ordinarily afford to add an experienced
pro or other team members to their staff.
An important area of
expertise at James Armstrong & Associates, Inc. is
the production of special sections and special editorial
projects in cooperation with a seasoned team of industry
veterans. Until Mid-2004, Jim Armstrong served as a
consultant to BusinessWeek Special Sections for Economic
Development Special Sections in Central US.
Armstrong also represents Inbound Logistics in a Central South part of the US and Canada. In addition, Inbound Logistics also appointed Armstrong as Director of Economic Development Worldwide. At IL, Jim Armstrong has spearheaded a series of Economic Development Special Sections highlighting logistics, which debuted during 2004 and continue through the present time.
Over the years, Jim
Armstrong has anchored a series of special sections at
the following publications: (1) BusinessWeek Magazine,
(2) Transportation & Distribution, (3) IndustryWeek
and (4) Financial World. In addition, Armstrong served
as Director of Economic Development at these magazines:
(1) IndustryWeek/IW Growing Companies, (2)
Transportation & Distribution/Chief Logistics
Officer and (3) Financial World Magazine.
This seasoned pro's
background also includes time as Texas/Oklahoma Manager
of Media Networks, Inc. and even a brief stint as
Southwest Regional Manager for that company, which is
now owned by AOL Time Warner, a National Account Manager
role at BusinessWeek and BusinessWeek International,
where he was based in St. Louis, Midwest Regional
Manager & Director of Economic Development for
Financial World/Corporate Finance, where he was based in
Chicago, Regional Manager & Director of Economic
Development for IndustryWeek and IW Growing Companies in
Chicago and Central Regional Manager & Director of
Economic Development for Transportation &
Distribution Magazine/Chief Logistics Officer.
While he served as
Director of Economic Development at IndustryWeek,
Armstrong proposed The World Class Communities Issue,
which was brought to fruition by Rich Osborne as Editor
at Large of that magazine and which became a standout
success.
Armstrong has received
numerous sales achievement awards, as well as industry
awards. One such example includes the Professional of
the Year Award from the St. Louis Chapter of BMA in
1990. As president of the St. Louis chapter, Jim also
received the Chapter of the Year Award among all large
chapters of BMA for 1987-88. Armstrong was also
recognized with four consecutive awards for Publications
on an international level from BMA.
Jim Armstrong is currently a member of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, among other organizations. Armstrong also serves as a church officer, is an accomplished pianist and an excellent skier.
Armstrong is a graduate of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, which is the home of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech. In addition, Armstrong attended the Graduate School of the famous University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, where his emphasis was advertising, marketing and research.
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 Linda
Akime Wright
Administrative
Assistant
Linda
Akime Wright serves as administrative and research
assistant by doing the day-to-day, practical jobs at our
company that enable Jim Armstrong to function in a more
strategic way.
This
key person in our company pays the bills and acts as
corporate liaison with our accountant, for example.
Linda
is currently pursuing her Associate of Arts degree at
McHenry County College.
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Edward
J. Walsh
Affiliate
Writer
Editor and writer Edward
J. Walsh has been an award-winning journalist for
more than 30 years. He has
been an author and editor of regional books; a senior
writer and editor for magazines and newspapers; and a
radio writer, producer and program host.
Walsh handles editorial
projects for diverse clients in academia, business and
the media. Among these clients are BusinessWeek
Magazine, The Plain Dealer and The Columbus Dispatch,
for whom he has written and edited special advertising
sections.
Other clients have
included Ernst & Young, Bell & Howell, and Case
Western Reserve University.
In addition, Walsh has directed the editorial content of
special sections for IndustryWeek magazine, guided
writing projects for the international law firm of
Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, and has written extensively
on business topics himself. He was a Cleveland
correspondent for BusinessWeek in the early 1970s. He
currently is a writer for such publications as Blue
Cross Magazine.
He is the author of Gateway: Blueprint of the Future
(1994), a commemorative book about Jacobs Field, home of
the Cleveland Indians. He was co-editor of
Cleveland-Cliffs (1997), Countdown to '99: The Official
Cleveland Browns Yearbook (1998), and Did You Read
Feagler Today? (1998).
Walsh was a contributing writer for Not Without Cause
(1995) and Images from the Heart (1996). He has
co-authored plays produced in regional theaters and has
written and produced numerous radio programs, including
a series of award-winning commentaries for public radio.
He was editor of COSE Update, the monthly magazine of
the Council of Smaller Enterprises, and served as
associate publisher of Milwaukee Magazine. He also
served as executive editor of both Cleveland Magazine,
where he held a variety of senior management positions
over a 17-year period, and Corporate Cleveland Magazine.
At various publications, he has served as a
general-assignment reporter, business reporter,
columnist and managing editor. He has been honored with
several awards for exemplary journalism.
Walsh is a graduate of John Carroll University.
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John
Browning
Affiliate
Art Director
John Browning, artist and
entrepreneur, has more than 20 years of experience in
art direction, graphic design and project production
aspects. His design strengths lie in dynamic type
manipulations, contemporary digital imagery, strong
compositional design aesthetics and sophisticated color
usage.
His most recent
engagements include special sections, supplements and
promotional collateral for business to business
publications. He has also developed annual reports,
advertising campaign material, promotional collateral
including media kits and direct mail, corporate logos
and branding elements, brochures, book covers,
package designs and point-of-purchase displays.
John has held the title
of Art Director for numerous publications including:
IndustryWeek's IW Growing Companies (OH), Millimeter
Magazine (NY), The Cleveland Cavalier's Tip-Off Magazine
(OH), Occupational Hazards Magazine (OH) and Élan
Magazine (CA). He has also been employed as a creative
director/designer for the following: the Penton Graphics
Department and Pentonıs Custom Media Division, A&D
Printing Co. in California and YSU's Program and
Activities Council in Youngstown OH.
John also teaches
publication design and typography courses at the Tri-C
West Campus in Parma, Ohio.
John obtained his degree
in graphic design, with a minor in fine arts and
illustration from Youngstown State University in Ohio.
For more information and
work samples, visit BROWN INK DESIGN at:
http://www.browninkdesign.biz
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Richard
J. Osborne
Affiliate
Editor
Richard J. Osborne,
president of ROP, Ltd. and The Osborne Group, has been
an award-winning journalist for more than 30 years. He
has been an author and editor of corporate histories and
other books; a reporter, columnist and editor for
newspapers and magazines; and a radio news director,
business reporter and program host. He has been honored
with more than 50 journalism awards, including the John
Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial
Journalism in 1983.
Through ROP and The
Osborne Group, he handles editorial and special-section
projects for diverse clients in academia, business and
the media. Current publishing clients include
BusinessWeek, Transportation & Distribution, the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Columbus Dispatch, and the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In addition, Osborne is an
editorial advisor to Great Lakes Publishing, and is the
editorial director of the firmıs Ohio Magazine.
Osborne, who began his
journalism career as a copy clerk for The Cincinnati
Enquirer, served as editor-at-large of IndustryWeek;
editor and publisher of Corporate Cleveland; executive
editor of The Evening News in Southbridge,
Massachusetts; associate editor of The Morning Journal
in Lorain, Ohio; managing editor of Cleveland Magazine;
founding editor of Inside Business, and executive editor
of COSE Update, the magazine of the Council of Smaller
Enterprises.
As editor-at-large of
IndustryWeek, he spearheaded such projects as the
IndustryWeek 1000, a ranking of the worldıs largest
publicly held manufacturing companies; the Worldıs 100
Best-Managed Companies, a global honor roll of
managerial excellence; IndustryWeekıs World-Class
Communities, an assessment of regional manufacturing
strength; and the Global Manufacturersı Resource Guide,
an almanac of vital information for manufacturing
executives.
His book credits include
Cleveland-Cliffs (1997) and Lubrizol: The Formative
Years (2000).
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