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Chuck Ingersoll – Bio & Experience
Expertise: writing, naming, branding, taglines, linguistics, marketing communications, voice talent, humor, curiosity

Category experience: banking, financial, industrial, food and beverage, health care,medical, imaging, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, retail, online/Web, industrial, B-to-B, B-to-C and beyond

Branding experience: naming, positioning and taglines for corporate and industrial clients for 10 years at my own agency (Ingersoll et al), naming and tag lines for national branding firms including Rivkin Associates, Catchword, 800 Degrees, BrandPlay, The Naming Company and others.

Working for other people: writer, account exec, creative supervisor, creative director and other lofty titles at Northrup & Teel, ICE Communications, Roberts Communications, Infantino Associates, Mason Selkowitz Marketing (or MSM, which saves a lot of spelling over the phone)

Working for his own self: president, creative director and Panamanian Strongman (funnier when Manuel Noriega was still running amok) of Ingersoll et al Communications for one decade (but who's counting?)

Clients at Ingersoll et al: Kodak, Bausch & Lomb, Xerox, LaserMax and others

Work created: naming, branding, tag lines, Web sites, interactive media, brochures, ads, presentations, trade show materials, articles, speeches, POS materials and so forth


Awards: numerous (but too modest to enumerate), preferring to focus on generating resonant, congruent, differentiated names and taglines for clients (See the branding article for more)

Previous lives: 1) journalist and writer for jazz and music pubs, including downbeat, Different Drummer, and Fusion ; co-founder of Rochester's Freetime magazine
2) Morning show host and program director for WCMF 96.5 FM

Current other life:
voice talent and voice actor for commercials, narrations and other audio projects. hearchucknow.com

Hobbyish pursuit: hosting a weekly jazz radio show on Jazz 90.1 and jazz901.org called "The Soul Jazz Spectrum"

Favorite snack: Reduced-fat Wheat Thins, they're almost addictive

Quote worth noting: "He was so fast he could turn out the light switch and be under the covers before the room got dark." -- Satchell Paige on Cool Papa Bell