Meet the Team...

Ron Hopkins, Owner

Ron is a proud Father of three sons: Corey is in his Senior year at Chapman University, Tim is wrapping up his Mechanical Engineering degree at Cal Poly, and Casey is a Marine currently serving in Afghanistan. Ron recently became a grandfather to a beautiful little girl by way of his step-son. He enjoys golf, water and snow skiing, traveling, tennis, and racing. Ron's wife Diane is a successful recruiter for Apria Healthcare's Human Resource department, and she is currently studying at Vanguard University to get her psychology degree with ultimate plans to become a Life Coach.

UPDATE
Corey graduated & is pursuing his MBA!
Tim graduated and has a real job as a mechanical engineer!
Casey finished his first tour and is enjoying life in Hawaii. He’ll most likely redeploy in 2012.
Granddaughter #2 has arrived and is beautiful!
Diane is weeks away from graduating and will be getting her Life Coach certification in 2012.

Yvonne Webb, Project Coordinator and Bookkeeper

Since 2002 Yvonne has been a Promotional Products Specialist, Project Coordinator, and CSR for Ron Hopkins.  She has enjoyed the "shopping" and relationships she has developed with the customers and manufacturers she has had the pleasure to meet.  CMR has recently added some accounting responsibilities to her list of duties.  As much as she likes the "shopping", accounting is her forte.  She is looking forward to being able to work in both areas. Yvonne, and her husband of 37 years, have 2 wonderful children and 3 beautiful grandsons.  In her spare time Yvonne enjoys bicycling and spending time with her grandsons.  She has been fortunate enough to be able to use her love of quilting in her philanthropy projects.

Judy Scarpello, Project Coordinator

Mother of 4... 'nough said

Judy has been with CMR since 2006 after taking off 15 years to raise 4 children.  Before that she was the Director of Advertising at Ganahl Lumber Company.  As a member of the Cross Media Resources Family she has honed her skills as a Project Coordinator. With her artistic background, she has become quite an asset to our graphics department.

She spends her free time volunteering at the kids activities and spends afternoons and weekends at their sporting events which includes: rowing regattas, LaCrosse games, Baseball games and Wrestling meets.  She has been known to assist her oldest in the glass blowing studio.  Judy loves to make pottery, bake and knit.

Chris Jacobson, Cross Media Expert and Evangelist

Chris is a veteran trade show and conference producer with roots in the print and publishing communities.  He cut his teeth working with his father, David Jacobson, producing the Gutenberg Festival trade show and publishing Horsetrader Magazine, both of which cater to print service providers and their vendors.

He currently produces the PrintFest and Cross Media West trade shows and conferences, which are co-located at the Photo Marketing Association show in Anaheim and Las Vegas.  These events cater to print service providers, marketing executives and creative professionals.  He also produces and manages meetings and events for the Southern California regional affiliate of the Direct Marketing Association.  This experience makes him highly qualified to advise customers in a creative capacity about cross media marketing solutions and strategies.

God and family are his priorities.  He is a devoted husband and father of two, a deacon and part-time musician in his church, and coaches his kids in soccer and baseball.  He serves on advisory boards and is active as an event producer and consultant in the printing, marketing and trade show communities.

Dan Kray, Creative Director and Marketing Consultant

Dan Kray is dedicated to creating strong, Marketing and Advertising Materials/Web Design and Presence that will increase your market share and profits.

His approach is personal, professional and pleasant. And it seems to be well received by the many businesses he serves for CMR. But then they also like the results that CMR provides. Turns out, things like cost effective solutions and award winning advertising have a way of making people smile.

Dan is also blessed with 2 beautiful children (an 11 year old dancer and clothing designer, and an 17 year old ERHS Drumline captain/monster rock drummer), a loving Real Estate agent wife of 24 years, and a long and active history of leading contemporary worship at church. He is back teaching 4 different courses in Web Graphic Design at DeVry University, as well as a panel advisor to a major art school in the Inland Empire.

The bottom line is that he believes that serving the client's needs is an honor and a privilege.

Kelly Hanna, Marketing Consultant

Kelly, born and raised in Southern California, enjoys the beach and the snow. She has a wide range of hobbies that include reading, traveling, roller skating and skiing. She thoroughly enjoys and values education and has two Bachelor degrees (Marketing and Business Management) and an MBA.

Kelly has over 9 years of experience in Marketing, with clients in the printing, software, electronics, and contract recruiter industries. She’s spent most of her career in MarComm developing successful email marketing programs and specializing in tradeshow coordination. She is a dedicated team player that truly believes in the value of customer service.

Zuzana Prochazka, Copy Writer and Graphic Consultant

Zuzana Prochazka is a creative and metrics-driven marketing professional with 20 years experience in improving ROI of corporate marketing and branding. Zuzana specializes in go-to-market strategies in both B2B and B2C markets. A critical thinker, Zuzana defines goals, sets strategy, creates tactical plans and budgets, improves business processes and measures results.

Zuzana has a background in technology and consumer products and services and has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Sprint telecommunications and AST computers but also small to mid-cap companies that needed to introduce best practices into their marketing mix.  She founded and ran a marketing agency for 5 years and worked with clients as a very hands-on team member, and interim marketing management.

Zuzana is multi-lingual, and has an MBA from UCLA and international experience from living, working and traveling abroad.  She holds a US Coast Guard Captain’s License, teaches First Aid & CPR, sits on the Board of Directors for a 500 member national writer’s association and blogs regularly in topics in the marine industry.