PromoAid Names Kelly Ryan Gartrell As New VP Business Development

Posted July 5, 2011

EVANSTON, Ill., July 5 2011 — PromoAid, the "marketing matchmaker," has named Kelly Ryan Gartrell as VP Business Development. Gartrell brings to the company more than 20 years of experience in consumer promotion, sales, marketing, account management, and business development. Gartrell will focus on adding B2C agencies and marketers to the growing list of clients for the B2B agency. She will also be involved in determining strategies to maintain the leadership PromoAid has established as the industry’s largest resource of marketing program information.

PromoAid's proprietary marketing data platform leads the industry in sourcing, researching, and selecting non-traditional media. PromoAid dramatically reduces the time and money that clients have to spend trying to match the right tactics to activate their marketing plans.

"Kelly comes to us with an impressive skill set," PromoAid founder and CEO Ronnie Perchik said. "She is tenacious, bottom line-oriented, and a strategic thinker with a talent for managing complex projects from start to finish." He noted that her expertise in consumer promotion sales includes, but is not limited to, direct mail, in-home newspaper bag promotions, in-store sampling and promotions, on/off premises experiential sampling/promotions, community- and venue-based promotions, and digital/mobile marketing and execution.

Gartrell joins PromoAid from Shorewood Packaging, a top retail packaging manufacturer, where she worked closely with marketers on innovative promotional packaging from conception through to execution. Previously, she was national account manager at TSN Group. She also served 11 years at The Sunflower Group, a leading advertising and sampling execution company that provides targeted in-home, in-store, event, ROP (run of paper), and Internet programs to consumer packaged goods companies as well as retail and direct response companies. Gartrell served six years at Donnelley Marketing/Cox Direct, working with marketers on highly targeted list selection and direct mail campaigns, and delivering samples and coupons to consumers via co-op and solo direct mail. Gartrell is a graduate of Rutgers with a BA in communications and a BS in exercise science and sports studies.

About PromoAid

Backed by decades of experience in marketing, the PromoAid team knows the kind of information marketers and agencies are looking for in marketing programs. Its one-of-a-kind data platform contains the most sought after information about hundreds of marketing firms across the country — from buzz marketing agencies to youth marketing firms and more than 20 other categories in between. 
PromoAid founder and CEO Ronnie Perchik has worked in sales and marketing for more than 25 years. He knows what makes a marketing plan successful. He also knows how draining it can be to find the right marketing vehicles to activate one. In June 2008, he acted on the simple concept of using technology to match clients' specific marketing strategies with the suppliers who could activate them in the marketplace. He did this by mirroring how companies like Match.com, Cars.com, and LendingTree.com connect individuals every day.