MEET OUR TEAM

Equal parts family and facilitator.

  • Bonni Burns

    President

    With over 35 years of experience in the marketing and broadcasting industries, Bonni brings an invaluable and universal knowledge of both business marketing and media strategy.

  • Veronica Ambuehl

    Vice President, Director of Client Services

    Veronica acts as a vital support system to everything BAM does. She oversees all client work and develops strategies for our clients, while leading our teams through the execution phases of our strategic plans.

  • Jordan Longhi

    Vice President, Director of Digital

    Jordan works alongside the digital marketing team on vision, strategy execution and optimization to create successful digital campaigns.

  • Courtney Longhi

    Vice President, Director of Media

    As the head of BAM’s traditional media team, Courtney directs all functions of the department from strategic development and evaluation through implementation, while often managing multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns.

  • Robin Reece-Hlava

    Vice President, Business Development

    As the Chief Growth Officer at BAM, Robin is an expert at identifying and implementing additional services that add value for existing clients, as well as building new client and partnership opportunities

  • Jessica Williams

    Director of Public Relations

    Jessica leads all of our client’s earned media and strategic communications efforts. As an expert at generating positive free media exposure for our clients, her goal is to find strategic and creative ways to help clients communicate their messages clearly.

  • Ryan McMichael

    Executive Creative Director

    Ryan brings over two decades of agency experience as a creative leader and award-winning copywriter for numerous iconic brands. At BAM, he leads our talented team and creative process, directing efforts across all clients.

  • Brett Halbe

    Director of Project Management

    Brett works with BAM’s clients and the BAM team to organize and implement results-driven marketing plans at every stage – from strategy to execution.

  • Sue Strubhart

    Director of Agency Operations

    With over 30 years of experience in account, production and project management Sue uses her expertise to take care of all the internal details of our business.

  • Colleen Humphrey

    Business Manager

    Colleen provides integral support to BAM’s account managers while running the operations of the office and serving as our poet laureate. She processes all media invoices for BAM’s clients and manages the accounts payable and receivables for all advertising campaigns.

  • Chris Rarick

    Account Director

    Chris Rarick serves as an accomplished Account Director at BAM, leveraging over two decades of experience in the St. Louis area. His role entails a deep immersion into clients’ businesses and industries, allowing him to tackle communication challenges adeptly.

  • Kaci Beatty

    Account Manager + Digital Strategy Specialist

    Kaci strives to create and implement successful, creative marketing strategies for our clients with a specialty in digital strategy.

  • Julio Velazquez

    Account Director

    Julio helps oversee strategy and creative direction for BAM’s clients. He enjoys collaborating with clients and the BAM team to ensure the successful execution of their strategic, integrated marketing campaigns.

  • Adam Chatman

    Digital Marketing Manager

    Adam works diligently to plan, implement and optimize strategic and multi-dimensional digital campaigns and strategies for BAM’s clients as part of our digital team.

  • Christy Bockler

    Media Manager

    Christy brings over 30 years of experience planning and buying media for clients across diverse industries. She spearheads multifaceted marketing campaigns across all traditional and digital media channels skillfully steering them from inception to completion.

  • Katy Sutton

    Senior Media Buyer

    Katy assists the team in working directly with media vendors, negotiating and placing buys, developing effective media strategies, executing media plans and optimizing the results of media campaigns—all with the best possible results for clients top of mind.

  • Simonne Kimble

    Marketing Specialist

    As a key player on BAM’s Account Services team, Simonne assists with tasks and managing relationships on multiple accounts.

  • Jana Stone

    Media Coordinator

    Jana is our do-it-all Media Coordinator who uses her prior banking operations experience to integrate our Media and Account teams into a best-in-class offering.

  • Owen Gusewelle

    Digital Marketing Coordinator

    As a part of our digital team, Owen helps develop and execute strategic social media plans, focusing on both paid and organic posts that maximize efficiency and success for any budget or goals our clients have.

  • Megan St. Peters

    Digital Coordinator

    Megan is part of our Digital Marketing team and assists with developing and implementing strategies for social media, focusing on both paid and organic strategy so that we can help our clients achieve their goals and budgets.

  • Stephanie LaChance

    Public Relations Specialist

    Stephanie is a part of our public relations team and assists our clients with all of their PR needs. Before joining our team, Stephanie spent 5 years working in newsrooms.

  • Krishnan Collins

    Public Relations Specialist

    Krishnan is part of our public relations team and helps clients with a wide range of PR needs. Building his foundation in reporting, Krishnan tells compelling stories through press releases and other forms of engaging media to illustrate clients’ messages to the public.

  • Nichole Richardson

    Communications Specialist

    Nichole acts as a creative support system to the Public Relations team. She is a copywriter and helps develop creative brand messaging strategies. She also lends her expertise in editing and print publications from her previous life.

  • Marisa Zayas

    Project Coordinator

    Marisa acts as a liaison across all of the departments at BAM Marketing Agency. As a Project Coordinator, her role is to oversee all projects at BAM, ensuring everyone involved in a project has everything needed internally and externally.

  • Kent Schuette

    Human Resources

    Kent is BAM’s Human Resources Director and motivational speaker. Kent takes care of all of the BAM employees by setting them up with the proper insurance, making sure everything in the office is up-to-date, and lifts up each individual employee with his great attitude.

  • Jessica Kinnard

    Creative Director

    Jessica’s role as creative director at BAM is to provide clients with visual and creative solutions to their marketing needs. She is always challenging herself and never fears diving into something new.

  • Robb Blackwell

    Senior Production Artist

    Robb is a designer, retoucher, typographer and copy editor with 20 years of agency experience. Robb has a wealth of experience producing a variety of marketing materials from brochures to direct mail to print ads to outdoor to retail signage.

  • Tim Patek

    Senior Graphic Designer

    Tim has worked for BAM since 2011 and brings over 30 years of creative knowledge to our clients. His experience and understanding of the scope of creative implementation is an asset to BAM clients and their vision.

  • Dustin Kent

    Associate Art Director

    Dustin joined BAM in the summer of 2018 as a full-time graphic designer after interning with BAM. He creates effective and inventive designs for print, digital, video graphics and logos to best suit BAM’s clients’ needs.

  • Jim Harper

    Creative Consultant

    Jim brings years of design experience and collaborative guidance to the BAM team to help elevate our brand work for clients.

  • Wade Yamaguchi

    Director of Video Production

    My journey to becoming a cinematographer combined my love for different cultures, beautiful places and storytelling. Through hard work and my ability to be adaptable in any situation, I have been given numerous opportunities to work on projects across the globe.

  • Devory Newsome

    Videographer + Editor

    Devory collaborates with BAM’s writers, designers, and project managers to develop and produce video and motion graphic content for BAM’s clients.