We're a group of brand strategists, market researchers, moderators, story tellers, copywriters, data analysts, creatives, brand planners, designers, programmers and innovators.
Expertise & Passion for Brands
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Working with C.E.K. & Partners, an Atlanta-based, branding and strategic communications firm means you are supporting a woman-owned business with an inclusive culture that provides work opportunities to extraordinary and passionate research and brand experts who are also military spouses, single mothers, parents who need flexibility, and even incredible musicians and artists.
Carolyn
Principal + Strategist
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Carolyn is passionate about delivering strategic insights that transform brands. Clients benefit from her team's ability to mine data and extract gems to find insights that truly differentiate their brands. She guides and positions them to reach the next level. She holds an MBA in International Business from the #2 ranked school.
Mary Ann
Sr. Copywriter
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Mary Ann's expertise with brand content focuses on a deep expertise in the areas of healthcare, health insurance, and financial service. Clients depend on her for articulating value propositions, brand stories, brand purpose statements and key messages. She's also crafts copy for marketing collateral, newsletters, blogs, white papers, articles, and websites.
Kelly
Sr. Copywriter
Kelly works magic with words. She listens between the lines, crafting compelling content whether it is a white paper, a newsletter, blog posts or an article. Her work helps financial and payment brands establish thought leadership and communicate in everyday language.
Don
Creative Art Direction
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Don is an award-winning creative designer. He excels in originating fresh ideas and creative thinking, whether creating a brand from a blank canvas or designing while keeping established brand guidelines in mind. Don creates the designs that support marketing and sales initiatives for start-ups and leading multinationals.
Jan
Graphic Design + Production
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Jan is a soulful creative. If you need an extra special personal touch for a sales meeting, internal brand launch or any type of event or customized direct mail piece, you need Jan's expertise. Our clients count on her energy and creativity to make the impossible, possible. She consistently delivers outstanding work our clients love.
Garon
Creative Design
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Garon's expertise with design spans decades across different formats. He's a trusted and talented designer when it comes to developing digital assets for our client's to welcome and onboard their new customers to printed pieces like Welcome Kits and Annual Reports.
Amy
Sr. Copywriter + PR
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Amy is a writer, editor and communications strategist. Since her background is in tech, her sweet spot is translating the technical and corporate speak into user-friendly prose that connects with people. We count on Amy to develop compelling copy for articles, newsletters, press releases and innovative product concepts.
Ray
Sr. Copywriter
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As a writer Ray holds an expertise with financial services, student loans and healthcare technology. He takes seemingly complex business solutions and makes them easily digestible for the reader. Companies rely on Ray to craft articles, solution sheets and long form content such as white papers. Clients count on his thoughtful and responsive approach he takes with delivering outstanding work.
Karen
Proofreader
Karen knows the rules. She is a fresh set of eyes—and the last set of eyes—on work before it is released. Karen reviews brand copy, web copy, brochures, technical performance guides and everything with the written word.
Carl
Market Research, Insights
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Carl's expert at directing the application of research techniques and insights to solve problems and support data-based business decisions. His analytic rigor and impact comes from overseeing research departments for many corporate giants.
Andy
Market Research, Insights
Andy has 25 years of experience in market research. He loves insights whether it is designing quantitative studies to help brands better understand their customers or building models to forecast the market opportunity for new product concepts. While Andy is an excellent moderator, he doesn't like photos.
Chris
Development + Programming
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Chris is passionate about ensuring our clients stay on track with programming and distributing hundreds of newsletters throughout the year. It's no small feat. It requires attention to detail, and discipline. Some of the country's largest financial institutions count on Chris.
Jennie
Program Management
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Jennie is organized. Really organized. She helps us keep the details in check. Jennie is passionate about making work flow better. She leads newsletter design and coordination of recruiting and scheduling participants for research initiatives—and a lot in between.
Leann
Digital Strategist
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Leann is well-versed in search engine optimization helping clients optimize their websites using high ranking keywords in order improve their digital presence. Our clients count on Leann's expertise with social media, website optimization and lead generation using both organic and paid search.
We're trusted by Fortune 500 companies, innovators, category disruptors, start-ups and nonprofits.
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