Ability Commerce – Advisory Board

The Ability Commerce Advisory Board works with us to research and develop new, best-practice functionality for our ecommerce solutions. The expert recommendations of these multi-channel marketing professionals aid us in prioritizing on-going development work. Working with the board of advisors also gives us a direct line of feedback from the direct-marketing/catalog industry about the performance and usability of our various ecommerce solution offerings. We are pleased and honored to have them on our team.

Terry Jukes

President
B2B Direct Marketing Intelligence LLC,


Terry Jukes is the founder of B2B Direct Marketing Intelligence LLC, a consultancy firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that serves various B2B eommerce/catalog companies.

Terry has seen first-hand the inner workings of dozens of successful ecommerce and catalog companies. He has expertise in a wide range of industries, including HR/Compliance Products and Services, Office Supplies, Computer Supplies, MRO, Publishing and Safety supplies. Terry is the former President of catalogers GNeil HR Products (FL) and Misco Computer Supplies (NJ). Prior to that, Terry was a partner of a B2B catalog company called Microbits (Toronto) that he eventually sold to Misco International.

Donald R. Libey

President
Libey Incorporated


Don Libey is president of Libey Incorporated, Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Des Moines, Iowa, strategic and forensic advisors, and M & A intermediaries to CEOs and boards of multi-channel direct marketing companies. The firm specializes in board-level strategic advisory services, strategic growth planning, in-depth forensic reviews of catalog and online marketing, circulation, merchandising, product performance, operations and financial performance. He is a non-executive Director of a number of boards of major multichannel companies in the U.S. and in the U.K.

Don, a long-time industry futurist and strategist to CEOs and boards, is the author of nine books on catalog marketing, future change, and the economic and technological influences on the global marketplace, the most recent being Libey and Pickering on RFM and Beyond, Second Edition (MeritDirect Press, 2008). He is the editor of the Libey Economic Outlook, the bi-monthly, in-depth analysis of the economy and its implications for catalog circulation and multichannel marketing strategy, published by MeritDirect and read by hundreds of direct marketing CEOs and senior executives. He is a former advisor to Smith-Gardner and Ecometry and is the developer of Libey's Uniform Suite of Multichannel Metrics™, the first comprehensive metrics protocol for multichannel marketers.

In his 30 years of catalog experience, Don has operated numerous direct marketing, catalog and publishing companies as an owner, director, or CEO. He lives in Des Moines, Iowa and in Wiltshire, England and can be reached at libey@libey.com and www.libey.com.

Reggie Brady

President
Reggie Brady Marketing Solutions


Reggie Brady is president of Reggie Brady Marketing Solutions a consultancy that provides email marketing, direct marketing and direct marketing consulting services by assisting companies to build, execute and analyze their customer acquisition and retention strategies.

Reggie is a leading authority on Internet direct marketing, bringing over twenty years of "hands on" marketing experience. Clients include major publishers, consumer marketers, agencies and business-to-business direct marketers.

Before establishing her own company, Ms. Brady was Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships for FloNetwork Inc., a leading email service bureau that was acquired by DoubleClick. Prior to that she was Vice President of Interactive Services for Acxiom/Direct Media and lead the company's email and online lead generation initiatives. As a true Internet pioneer Reggie spent over eleven years at CompuServe, a major global Internet Service Provider as Director of Interactive Marketing and Ecommerce.

As a respected industry leader, Reggie is frequently a spokesperson for interactive direct marketing consulting. Her observations on privacy and online marketing have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Advertising Age, 1 to 1 Marketing, Ad Week, Brand Week and eRetailing World. She also contributes regular articles to Target Marketing Magazine, Catalog Success and MarketingProfs.

She is a frequent featured speaker at national and international conferences on the topic of email and permission marketing. And, she also conducts one - and two- -day seminars on effective email and interactive marketing. Reggie can be reached at www.reggiebrady.com.

Katie Muldoon

President
Muldoon & Baer


Katie Muldoon has more than 30 years of direct marketing experience, including associations with 400+ companies, many in the Fortune 50.

Ms. Muldoon founded the New York City-based direct marketing company, The Muldoon Agency, in 1979, then sold it to a joint venture of the then largest agencies on three continents: Dentsu (Asia), Young & Rubicam, (North American), and Havas (Europe) a decade later. After completing her contract with the new venture, Ms. Muldoon, together with her husband, Jacob Baer, founded Muldoon & Baer.

Ms. Muldoon authored the widely acclaimed, The Catalog Strategist's Toolkit (May, 2005), as well as How to Profit Through Catalog Marketing (3rd edition published in October 1995, German edition 1997). A former Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University Center for Direct Marketing, she taught the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Catalog Essentials Seminar for almost two decades. For 23 years, she has contributed special assignments to Catalog Age (now called Multichannel Merchant), was a long time columnist for DM News and wrote monthly for Direct magazine.

Ms. Muldoon served for two terms on the DMA's Board, including the Executive Committee, and was past Chair of the Ethics, ECHO, and Image Committees. She has also served on the DMA Hall of Fame Committee.

Katie Muldoon is a frequent guest speaker and direct marketing industry judge around the globe. Her articles and speeches have been translated internationally by such publications as Mono (Japanese), Vente A Distance (French) and Fischer’s Archive (German). Furthermore, she has appeared as an industry expert on television networks like CNBC.