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Wendy Scott
Blue Blaze Associates
Blue Blaze Associates is a graduate
of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program and officially opened for business in 2001. The marketing firm has helped build brands or
retool digital media as well as design campaigns and print materials. Its work with nonprofits and businesses big and small helped land it on the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia’s annual Philadelphia100 list, honoring the 100 fastest-growing privately held entrepreneurial companies in the tri-state region. As chief strategy officer, Wendy Scott leverages her 25 years of marketing experience to help direct marketing initiatives for clients, distilling complex ideas in simple messages.
She also serves as the firm’s customer relationship lead.
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Sandy Taccone
Blue Blaze Associates
Blue Blaze Associates is a graduate
of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program and officially opened for business in 2001. The firm is a full marketing and design agency that
has won many awards over the years, notably the Entrepreneurs Forum
of Greater Philadelphia’s annual Philadelphia100 list. Blue Blaze is a certified women-owned business and
a nationally certified LGBT Business Enterprise As CEO, Sandy Taccone
has 30 years of design and strategic marketing experience on her resume as well as 27 years as an entrepreneur that has run successful marketing firms. She is also an award-winning designer and creative director.
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Ivan Thomas
Ivan Thomas is a self-taught filmmaker while cultivating more skill in cinematography under the study with Philadelphian cinematographer Tim Fontaine. From there, he used his skills for DE.TV, Delaware’s premiere broadcast and social media content provider that shares positive stories and news about the First State’s largest city. The channel has grown to include Good Morning Wilmington, The Agenda, DETV Kids, and more. Thomas has also successfully lobbied Wilmington City Council to manage the city’s Public Access/Leased Access (PALA) television station and secured
DE.TV broadcast rights to Delaware Blue Coats games.
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Greg Watkins
AllHipHop LLC
“Grouchy” Greg Watkins has been
in the recording industry since 1993 when he launched his own record label Oblique Recordings, and soon was selling MP3s. When the label closed years later, he and friend
Chuck Creekmur founded AllHipHop, a website that intensively covers the hip-hop music scene through a lens of a news organization. By 2003, the site was bringing enough revenue to make it Watkins’ full-time job. Throughout the years, the website AllHipHop received accolades like “CNN of hip- hop” by Essence magazine and the 2009 Best Hip Hop Online Site/App Award from BET. Almost 19 years after forming AllHipHop.com, Watkins’ launched CollegeHipHop.com to reach the next generation.
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