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Creating Culinary Opportunities

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:33:16 GMT

How to cook authentic Italian cuisine in Houston... with Giuliano Hazan Join acclaimed cooking teacher, chef and author Giuliano Hazan, for hands-on, multicourse Italian cooking classes in a private kitchen. Learn special techniques and easy preparation for Italian meals while expanding your culinary skills. A worldwide consultant and entrepreneur, Giuliano began his education as a cook before he could reach the counter, and by age 17 was a hard-working assistant at Marcella Hazan’s renowned School of Classic Italian Cooking in Bologna. The only other place Giuliano offers hands-on classes is at his school in Italy at the renaissance Villa Giona in the heart of Verona’s wine country. Giuliano Hazan is the author of four critically acclaimed cookbooks and the recipient of the 2007 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cooking Teacher of the Year Award. His fourth, and newest book, THIRTY MINUTE PASTA, is now available on amazon.com. ...

Client Experience

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:01:11 GMT

Ann Iverson's considerable corporate, consumer and business-to-business marketing and marketing communications strategic experience includes a variety of clients, including: AIM Funds AlE Package Goods Products American Express (Medical Card) American Red Cross of Greater New York Axiom Design Group BBDO Beauty ID Betty Wong Design Bigler LP Browning Ferris Industries (now Waste Management) Camden Property Trust Cameron Christian Smith & Jewell LLP Clements, O'™Neill, Pierce, Wilkerson & Pierson (Now Howrey LLP) Compaq Computer (now Hewlett-Packard Company) Cordua Restaurants The Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County* Dayton Community Development Corp. Exxon/Mobil Chemical Co. First Data Corporation Gateway Design Gardere Hands Consulting H.E. Butt Grocery Co. HL&P (now Reliant) Houston Cellular (now AT&T) Houston Grand Opera Houston Symphony JPMorgan Chase KFC Kraft/General Foods Middle South Utilities Morgan Personette...

Awards

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:01:43 GMT

Awards

In addition to providing the strategic leadership for award winning campaigns for companies like Shell, Kraft/General Foods, Southwest Bank of Texas, etc., Iverson has received the following awards:

American Advertising Federation Houston Chapter Distinguished Service Awards, 2007

American Advertising Federation Houston Chapter Silver Medal in 2004, for recognition of outstanding contributions to advertising, furthering the industry’s standards, creative excellence, and responsibility in areas of social concern.

Houston Graphics Communicator of the Year in 1984.

Branding and Positioning

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:51:44 GMT

Brand builder, creative facilitator and inspiring team leader, at the heart of Ann Iverson's fascination with her work over the years is her capacity to uncover new selling opportunities for her clients. Her method is to dig relentlessly for more insightful, more informed, more effective ways of looking at the market to reach customers. Studying customers until the world is seen through their eyes is part of her formula for successful branding. As a result, Iverson develops strategies and programs that reach those customers in new and highly profitable ways.

Iverson has lectured on strategic branding and positioning at various American Association of Advertising Agencies' training programs, Ogilvy’s training programs worldwide, Rice University, Houston Baptist University, New York University, Skidmore College, University of Texas, and The University of Houston. She has been the keynote speaker at various American Advertising Federation chapter clubs around the country. In addition, she teaches advertising at Rice University with an emphasis on strategic branding and positioning.