Donovan Moore
Birthplace, Long Beach, California 1956
Education, University of Southern California
Residence, 50 miles West of Madison Wisconsin
Expertise, Digital Media Public Relations Web 2.0
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Donovan Moore has been actively involved in the creative marketing of products and people for most of his adult life. With an widely diverse background in public relations, celebrity publicity, agency representation, personal management, and brand management, he has over 30 years experience in all phases of marketing and public relations. A graduate of The University of Southern California (USC) Marshall school of Business, ranked in the top 10 of business schools in the country, further rounds out his resume. He began his career in Los Angeles CA with the firm Professional Consulting Management, a political public relations company headed by Michael Reagan, son of future President Ronald Reagan. There he worked on several election campaigns, the most notable being the the mayoral race for the city of Los Angeles, including the race against Tom Bradley, that would later become a case political /marketing study and coin the term, bradley effect. In the following years, he began taking on clients in the entertainment industry, honing his public relations and promotion skills by implementing marketing campaigns for numerous Hollywood bands during the rise of the LA Sound in the mid 80′s. It was during this time that he discovered and negotiated the record contract for the soon to be groundbreaking band Stryper, becoming their personal manager. The band would go on to sell more than 10 million records worldwide. Soon thereafter, he was hired by WCA, a west coast talent agency known for it’s representation of mostly middle of the road Christian celebrity artists and speakers such as Pat and Debby Boone, Art Linkletter, Hal Lindsey, Dean Jones, Dale Evans, Chuck Woolery, and Florence Henderson- among others. While at WCA, Donovan transformed the agency by signing numerous artists in a new genre that would later become known as contemporary Christian music as well as signing more high profile Christian sports celebrities. Some of the artists and speakers he personally signed included Dion, Twila Paris, Meadowlark Lemon, Rosey Grier, Reggie White, John Delorean and Leon Patillo. He would become president of the company leading it to become the largest Christian talent agency in the country. After getting married, he relocated to the state of Illinois (where his wife was born) and started his own corporate speakers bureau. Along with the clients he brought with him from WCA, the firm expanded it’s roster to include some of the biggest names in sports, politics, and entertainment. In the early 90′s he underwent a spiritual awakening, or as he likes to put it, “a born again-born again experience” and completely changed careers. He started a wholesale golf products company that rode the “Tiger Woods” golf boom of the 90′s; expanding the company with a chain of brick and mortar retail stores in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. The following decade he entered the new and growing field of digital media and internet marketing helping companies bridge the gap between brick and mortar and online sales. Currently he lives outside of Madison, Wisconsin USA and when not on the golf course is the ceo of 160media.com. He also spends time editing the aggregated news site, spiritnewsdaily.com as well as being involved in several other domains to be launched in the near future.
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(608) 514-8057
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My Other Websites (in progress)
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