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Ben Combs, President
Ben Combs is president of Combs & Company. He has been a communications professional for over 40 years and has been a principal in his own agency for more than 30 years. Combs is a strategic marketing and planning counselor to numerous Mid-South leading advertisers. His agency is known for developing fully-integrated marketing communications programs in which measurement of success is key.
A consistent winner in the "ADDY" awards, Combs' work has won first place for his clients in national, state and regional competition, including the prestigious CLIO and national ADDY's.
Combs is very active in civic affairs. He has served as president of Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, chairman of the Little Rock Motion Picture & Television Commission, president of the Better Business Bureau, founding board member of the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society and the Children's Museum of Arkansas. He has also served as vice president and director of the United Way. He is former national field representative of the American Cancer Society.
Jud Chapin, Executive Creative Director
Jud Chapin, Executive Creative Director, has been a creative force in advertising for more than 30 years. He is a much honored musicologist and writer who has created and produced hundreds of television, radio and print campaigns. His numerous national and international awards include advertising "Oscars" like four Clios, The One Show, The International Radio Awards and the Silver Microphone Awards.
Chapin served as Senior Vice President and Creative Director for Bozell & Jacobs in Dallas beginning in 1976. There he was responsible for the creation, supervision, and production of work on all major clients including American Airlines, Greyhound, and Lone Star Beer.
Chapin was a founding partner of Dallas agency Puskar, Gibbon, Chapin in 1987. The agency, once named the "Hottest Agency in the Southwest," was renowned for its award winning work for Jimmy Dean sausage as well as Butterball, Armour, Taco Bueno and The Black-Eyed Pea restaurants.
The agency was sold to advertising giant OmniCom in 1997 but Chapin remained as Creative Consultant, participating in new business development and still producing memorable television and radio for clients.
Chapin began his work with Combs & Company in 2000. He has written and produced several award-winning campaigns for the agency including Dillard's Department Stores holiday campaigns as well as the "Get Down to Dillard's" and "It's a Fashion Thing" youth radio campaigns. Chapin work has also been a key to the many successes of the agency's decade-long work for Tunica, Mississippi, and for higher education clients.
Chrissy Garner, Account Executive
Chrissy Garner graduated from Arkansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Communications - Radio/Television and a minor in Marketing. She was active in Phi Eta Sigma, a National Honor Society and National Broadcast Society, and the Baptist Student Union as a Publicity Chairman and Outreach Vice-Chairman.
As Account Executive, Chrissy manages client work for Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau, Tunica Arena & Expo, Tunica RiverPark, Tunica National Golf & Tennis, Tunica Airport, and Majestic Hotel & Spa. As a Media Buyer, Chrissy negotiates and places media for her clients as needed and provides support for the Media Supervisor. She previously worked with our Combs & Company media team as Dillard's Head Television Media Buyer, negotiating and placing television and cable media in 40 markets. She also managed the Strata media buying software and conducted market analyses.
Chrissy has served as media buyer on other accounts such as Delta Trust & Bank and Saturn, planning and placing print, radio and cable media. She has assisted with clients such as KFC Co-Ops and Gwatney Chevrolet. Chrissy has an extensive background in broadcast, print and outdoor media.
Cheri Holt, Business Manager
Cheri Holt is the business manager for Combs & Company. With more than 20 years experience in the accounting field, Holt has been with Combs & Company since 1996.
Cheri joined Combs & Company after ten years with NCR Corporation. While at NCR, Cheri, in conjunction with the programming department, designed a computerized billing system for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., taking them from 24 full boxes of paper invoices to 12 one-page invoices per year.
Cheri is responsible for agency accounting and accounting system administration, client billing, human resources and facility management. She prepares all financial information to American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) standards.
Kathy Loveless, Graphics Manager
Kathy Loveless, graphics manager for Combs & Company, has worked in the graphic arts arena for more than 28 years. She began her career as a typesetter in a printing environment and was later an integral part of the first in-house typography department in a Little Rock-based advertising agency. In addition to typesetting, she was involved in paste-up, layout and design, as well as billing and maintaining a typesetting client base. She joined Combs & Company in 1989 as manager and typesetter of Technigraphics, an in-house typesetting department. In 1990, she was named Graphics Manager and Network Administrator of the agency wide Macintosh computer network and provided hardware and software technical assistance and maintenance as well as production artist duties. Her current responsibilities include maintaining graphic supplies inventory, word processing, layout and design, creative design assistance, preflighting digital print materials, digital client archiving and retrieval, and electronic transfer of digital files.
Amy Meins, Combs and Company Communications Manager
Amy Meins, Combs and Company Communications Manager, has been writing for over a decade as an advertising copywriter, newspaper reporter and magazine editor. She earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Central Arkansas where she was editor of the university's student newspaper, The Echo, and a reporter for the Log Cabin Democrat. Before joining the team at Combs & Company, she was editor of Active Years magazine.
As Communications Manager at Combs & Company, Amy crafts both broadcast and print ad copy for clients such as UCA, as well as the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau, Metro Lift Propane, Shorty Smalls, Centennial Bank, Mid-South Community College and Alltel Arena. Amy also contributes press releases and public relations assistance as needed.
Michael Puckett, Creative Director
Michael Puckett, Creative Director, has enjoyed a multifaceted career including television and retail. Working in Dallas, he opened his own design studio, The Art Store. After returning to Little Rock several years later, Puckett worked at a number of local advertising firms where he provided award winning creative for many local, regional and national campaigns.
During the 1980's Puckett Design Group was responsible for many ADDY Awards, including 100's of local and regional ADDYs, a prestigious National ADDY in 1982, and the Best of Show ADDY in 1989. In 1994, Puckett Design Group merged with a Little Rock ad agency where Michael served as Vice President & Creative Director. Over the next 10 years, he was responsible for concepts and production of radio and television for the agency. He was also responsible for the creative content and production of the agency's entire print advertising efforts.
Puckett attended Arkansas Tech University, majoring in Commercial Art and Design and studied painting at the Arkansas Arts Center. He has served on the board of the Shakespeare Festival of Arkansas and is currently on the Humane Society of Pulaski County board.
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