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Sep 24th, 2008

ST. LOUIS, September 24, 2008 – The St. Louis Chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) recently announced its executive board of directors for the 2008-2009 term.

   2008-2009 AMA St. Louis executive board members are: Richard Arthur, president; Melissa Keim, president elect; Lisa Blackmore, vice president of membership; Dan McGrath, vice president of communications; Carrie Muehlemann and Christine Chamberlin, vice presidents of programming; Jeff Snell, vice president of sponsorship; Joel Post, vice president of marketing; and Melissa Hanthorn, vice president of administration. New positions to this year’s board are president of the St. Charles area and vice president of programming for St. Charles, which will be held by Lauren Kolbe and Amy Schult, respectively. The board’s immediate past president, Mike McNamara, will continue to serve on the board in an advisory capacity.

The chapter’s newly elected president, Richard Arthur, outlined objectives for this board’s term:
•   Increase awareness and participation in the AMA’s annual Marketing Excellence Awards;
•   Reinvigorate the AMA’s important Roundtable events;
•   Increase student and professional participation in the AMA’s annual Student Conference.

“My goal for the 2008/2009 term is to maintain the momentum that the chapter leaders before me have generated,” said Arthur. “We have a great board in place this year, and everyone’s eager to continue too bring the best programming, networking and education programs to the St. Louis marketing community."

The St. Louis Chapter of the American Marketing Association, chartered by the national office of the AMA, is a local professional society of individual members with an interest in the practice, study and teaching of marketing. The association’s principal roles are:

•   To provide the leadership and resources necessary for the professional development of the members of the St. Louis Chapter of the AMA;

•   To empower marketers in the St. Louis region through information, education, interpersonal relationships, career advice, and other resources that will enrich our profession and the regional economy;

•   To advance the science and ethical practice of the marketing discipline within a personal philosophy that is reasoned, decent and civilized.

For more information visit the St. Louis AMA’s website at www.ama-stl.org.