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| Mark M. Stacey |
| National Advertising Director |
Mark Stacey is a veteran advertising, media, sales and marketing professional with more than 20 years in the development of business and management of salespeople and resources nationally and internationally.
Mark grew up in the Lower Rio Grande Valley where he worked for both the U.S. Border Patrol and the United States Department of Agriculture in addition to beginning his media career as a radio announcer in Brownsville, Texas.
Mr. Stacey studied cinematography at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas and later transferred to the University of Texas at Austin where he studied Russian language and earned degrees in Journalism and Government while serving in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He also first worked in advertising during this period as a writer/producer with an advertising agency primarily focusing on political advertising.
Over the ensuing decade, Mark worked in progressive capacities in a number of Austin, Texas' leading advertising agencies including president and CEO of his own award-winning firm, Phinney-Stacey & Associates.
Mark served for nearly a decade on the board of the Austin chapter of the American Advertising Federation and was awarded the AAF's Silver Service Medal while serving as president. He was also awarded two President's Awards during his board tenure. An accomplished copywriter, broadcast producer and vocal talent, he also has won a number of Addy Awards for his creative work.
In the late 1980's Mark took on a new challenge and career shift, working in magazine publishing with some of the world's leading computer aided design (CAD) magazines, including CADENCE Magazine which is still heralded as the world's leading CAD periodical.
He was instrumental in the launch, staffing and management of editorial and sales offices for a number of computer-aided design magazines in western Europe. Mark was also responsible for the acquisition, redesign, staffing, re-launch and subsequent management of Corel Magazine in the 1990's and successfully launched that publication's commercially viable website in the mid-1990's.
Mark was responsible for the comprehensive overhaul and turn around of a stand-alone radio station in Austin and is credited as being the guy who took Howard Stern off the air in Central Texas before it was fashionable. His most recent role was that of Chief Operating Officer for a full service direct marketing agency with a national client base, growing that company dramatically in two years.
Mark was awarded the Austin Business Journal award for Central Texas' 13th fastest growing company with revenues under $10 million in 2003 by the CEO of that company.
Mark is married with four daughters ages 24, 16, 14 and 4 years. He is an avid collector of books, music and guitars. He is also the proud owner of a bird dog named Lacey J. Stacey whose escape and evasion antics put Houdini to shame.
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