A true business-builder, Bruce Benesh came to Justin Downey Marketing looking to help build a marketing firm from the ground-up, the right way.

Mr. Benesh brings his significant experience in producing positive returns for his clients which have ranged from IPO’s raising $350 million to developing integrated marketing campaigns which drew a 58% response rate for clients like IBM to numerous to-market strategies for start-up companies.

Since graduating with a degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Benesh hosted the Technology Pavilion of the first Internet World’s Fair at the Infomart. 

He then oversaw branding and channel marketing activities for ProAmerica.  In 1999, he developed interactive communications strategies for Allied Riser Communications before moving over to the agency-side of marketing as Vice President of Quill Advertising in 2001.

Throughout his distinguished 14-year career his clients have included: American Airlines, Centex Homes, EDS, Hewlett Packard, JC Penney, IBM, Trammell Crow and Verizon.

In his free time, Mr. Benesh is an avid scuba diver, a lifelong snow skier, an amateur parachutist, a 90% free-throw shooter and an expert at towing inflatables outside the wake.

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