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Ryan Lake
Chief Executive Officer
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Ryan originally joined Lake Group Media as a list broker specializing in list acquistion business and consumer publishers. His client list included Thomas Publishing Magazine Group, U.S. News & World Report, ESPN Magazine, Fast Company and Wall Street Journal.com (WSJ.com). In the summer of 1999, Ryan's direct marketing experience enabled him to successfully launch L@ke interactive, an email list brokerage and list management division of Lake Group Media, Inc. that now boasts 50 prestigious managed properties and dozens of e-mail brokerage clients. As Chief Executive Officer since the year 2000, Ryan concentrates on new product development, corporate strategic vision and recruitment.

Karen Lake
Chief Operating Officer
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Karen Lake began her direct marketing career as an Assistant Marketing Analyst at Audrey Jones where she learned the basics of direct mail. After which Karen spent 10 years in catalog circulation at national catalogs Lillian Vernon Corporation and MicroWarehouse. While at Lillian Vernon Karen's responsibilities included overseeing circulation, both housefile and prospecting, across 8 titles and for close to 200 million catalogs a year. Karen's experience includes housefile segmentation, modeling, list acquisition, list management, budgeting, analysis, database builds, package inserts, and blow-ins. Karen holds the position of Chief Operating Officer at Lake Group Media, Inc. These years of both consumer and business-to-business mailer-side experience have given Karen the background to work with LGM's top clients, helping them to achieve their marketing goals and providing them with comprehensive marketing strategies. Karen holds a Bachelor's degree from Hofstra University and a Master's degree from Iona College.

Brokerage Team

Joe Robinson
SVP, List Brokerage
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Joe is a 10+ year industry veteran in the list brokerage industry. As Senior Vice President of List Brokerage Sales, Joe is responsible for maintaining his own roster of accounts, which include both traditional direct marketers such as WSJ.com, Barron's, New York University, Investor's Business Daily & Harvard Business School Publishing as well as marketing agencies like Rhino Marketing and Dryden Partners. Joe's years of list expertise, negotiation skills, and relationships are combined with the most advanced list research and analytic tools, allowing him to effectively develop direct mail plans and email plans for his clients. In addition to maintaining his own accounts, Joe is responsible for the development of new products and services to help all Lake Group Media brokerage clients lower their acquisition costs and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. Joe is also responsible for new business development in the brokerage area.

Mike Connolly
Vice President, DLS
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Mike began his direct marketing career more than a decade ago at Medical Economics providing allied healthcare professionals, hospital personnel, nurses, physicians, to healthcare marketers. From 1996 – 1999, he worked for InfoUSA/Database America, specializing in offering compiled and response files, data processing, profiling and modeling. Mike later went to work for Venture Direct Worldwide from 1999-2001, where he not only provided the above services, but also specialized in now offering printing, mailing and online/email services. As Sales Director in the Direct List Services Division of Lake Group Media, Inc., Mike offers a “One Stop Shop” solution for the direct marketing community. These solutions represent List Recommendation, Data Processing, Printing, Mailing, Modeling and Profiling capabilities. Mike’s current clients include Lydia’s Professional Uniforms, Verizon Wireless N.E., Hill, Holliday, Connors & Cosmopolus, Microsoft, and SAS.

Lenny Medico
SVP, List Management
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Lenny possesses over (12) years of List Management experience. Lenny began his career in 1993 at Lake Group Media as a Sales Manager for (4) years and then worked for (6) years at American List Counsel as the Vice President and Director of Accounts. Lenny returned to Lake Group Media, Inc. in April of 2004 as Senior Vice President of List Management. Lenny contributes fresh ideas and new insight to the Lake Group Media, Inc. sales approach. He brings a disciplined, results-oriented approach to the priorities and demands of list account management and his analytic ability and excellent interpersonal skills have garnered praise from his relationships with list owners, brokers and mailers. Lenny's primary role in overseeing the Lake Group Media List Management Department will be to garner all necessary resources to develop and execute unique proactive sales and marketing plans for Lake Group Media's prestigious portfolio of clients to generate the maximum list rental income possible.

Jed Dorney
VP, List Management
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Jed has 8 years of agency experience in the financial marketplace, and brings a fresh approach to list management, providing new ideas that are "outside the box" of traditional methods. His agency experience combined with his 9 years with Lake Group Media, enables the sales staff to reach non-traditional agencies with list management recommendations; an untapped market at most traditional list firms. Jed is the primary point of contact, providing monthly status of sales and marketing efforts. He coordinates information from all areas of list management to insure the smooth flow of information to clients on a consistent basis. This approach is not only beneficial to the list owner, since it provides one central source for information, it also enables other departments, specifically the sales team, to focus exclusively on efforts in recommending and up-selling files.

Lisa Dolzadelli
Director of Client Services
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As Director of Client Services, Lisa is fully aware of the fact that the quality of service rendered to direct marketers is the pivotal function upon which all future orders hinge! To this end, she is dedicated to personally guiding, training and insuring the professional development of her staff of 10+ customer service representatives, who recognize that accurate order processing and timely shipment are vital to our clients. Furthermore, Lisa’s long term, personal relationship with both brokers and service bureaus enables her to successfully respond to all challenges relating to fulfillment, order clearances and special requests. Year in and year out, both clients and staff benefit from Lisa’s experience and expertise.

Bruce Demaree
Director of Development, DonorBase
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Bruce Demaree serves as Director of Development for DonorBase, a cooperative database exclusively serving nonprofits and fundraisers. As a 10-year industry professional with deep experience in data management and compilation, Bruce thrives on building lasting partnerships with clients by providing valued solutions to their donor acquisition list needs.