Gray Suit Marketing Welcomes Tom Kelley as Partner

Gray Suit Marketing is pleased to announce Tom Kelley as a Partner in the firm. Kelley has 21 years experience advising and counseling management of start-ups, small business, corporate, trade associations and non-profit clients in all areas of strategic marketing, branding, and external affairs outreach. Kelley’s trademark work centers on bringing stakeholders together, forming new alliances that are win-win situations for all, and building lifelong business and personal relationships with colleagues.

Kelley has served as Special Assistant to U.S. Congressman Bill Boner (TN), as Senior Staff Director at the American Insurance Association, as Chief Company Spokesman and head of public relations at Target Corporation’s 260-store Mervyn’s division. Kelley has also headed the political affairs department at the National Restaurant Association in Washington, D.C. and was a Registered Congressional Lobbyist for almost five years.

Gray Suit Marketing Founder David Warren says: “When Tom is serving a retail or hospitality client you’re as likely to find him aligning operations, sales, and finance as you are to find him cleaning out a refrigerator at two in the morning. He brings tremendous energy and savvy to our entrepreneurial clientele.”

“It’s the right time to join forces with such a stellar group of colleagues. With an even greater emphasis on return on investment by clients, increasing the Gray Suit bandwidth and expanding operational, marketing, branding and management consulting to new industries is immensely exciting,” Kelley said.

Gray Suit Marketing looks forward to 2011 with an even stronger and more diverse team to serve the business community locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.