Our Principal
Carroll Merry is a true marketing communications professional with over 30 years of experience in public relations, publishing, writing, event planning and management, advertising and general marketing communications.
His “start,” so to speak, came as a weekly newspaper editor with the U.S. Air Force. Then came duty as a bureau chief for a civilian daily paper. Then into advertising and sales promotion in the outdoor power equipment industry. Advertising and marketing communications manager positions with two major U.S. agricultural equipment companies. Space advertising with two leading trade publications. He has also served as a publisher of trade publications.
During that time he also received a bachelors degree in journalism and a masters degree in business management.
He is actively involved with his industry, whether through the local chamber of commerce, the Chicago and Badger Chapters of the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Business Alliance Council of the National Association of Conservation Districts, the American Society of Association Executives, the Agricultural Relations Council, and more!
In 2002 he was given a prestigious National Leadership Award from the National Agri-Marketing Association, the latest of many industry citations he has received for his work during his career.
Today he brings all that experience to focus on the needs of his clients. A hands-on manager, he boasts that he’s never asked his staff, at any of the companies he has worked for, to do something he hasn’t done himself!
