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About Dennis Morgan: He is a highly driven advertising and creative service executive committed to successfully managing clients through the business development process. As a business developer he has provided creative solutions to business problems to a wide variety of clients ranging from large public corporations to start-up level enterprises. His recent focus has been in the financial, entertainment, tech-centric, and organic food sectors. Experienced in most industries ranging from manufacturing and tourism to consumer electronics and professional sports--he has seen what works and not work far more than anyone confined to one industry.

Morgan has one of those careers that can be truly classified as both "long and distinguished" and a "certifiable success".

Working as a business developer/ intermediary for such agencies as Y&R, AGP, Foote, Cone, & Belding, and several boutique agencies in Southern California--he has worked on both the agency-side and client-side. He has managed accounts like Panasonic, NP Acoustics, Funjai, Casio, Lippo Insurance Group, Wharton Bank, NWA University,Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Universal Music Group.

In addition to his strategic sales
and marketing skills, he has a great reputation for leveraging his background in various marcomm platforms. Morgan's marketing-based public relations experience is underscored by his recent work for Congressional Quarterly Contributing Editor, Craig Crawford, also columnist for CQPolitics.com, CQ Weekly, and a news analyst for NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. Morgan served as the project manager for Good'N Mad Prod. Ltd.(Polexpediters) which produced a series of short web-videos that spearheaded the viral YouTube campaign to promote Crawford's recent book, The Politics of Life 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World -- he also booked Crawford on domestically syndicated radio programs such as The Stephanie Miller Show, Tom Hartman, Radio Netherlands, and other media outlets.
Morgan worked as a volunteer web-video producer on the Obama Biden campaign.

He was Chief Marketing Officer for Odyssey Pictures Corp. and President of Odyssey Pictures music division. While at Odyssey he was responsible for all advertising, publicity and promotion of motion picture and sports division products. Morgan developed all integrated marketing plans for corporate objectives and strategies. He also managed strategic marketing and advertising communications for all initiatives related to cross-selling the professional sports division,spearheaded by the Sacramento Geckos, a USISL A-Division pro soccer team affiliated with MLS teams, Kansas City Wizard and San Jose Clash.

Before joining Odyssey he was Director of International Sales & Marketing at Los Angeles based Drive Entertainment, Inc. where he managed all global marketing, distribution, and product licensing. Morgan also served as domestic division manager for the company's dance label and children's music label. He played a pivotal role in the worldwide marketing, distribution, publishing, and global TV syndication of the Emmy nominated PBS Special, "Swing Alive! At The Hollywood Palladium". He also managed Drive's jazz labels, RealTime--Chick Corea, Ernie Watts, Freddie Hubbard, (Art Pepper, Joe Farrell).

Prior to launching his career as a salesman and branch manager for Decca Records, Morgan was a high school substitute teacher for the Raritan Township School District. After Decca merged under the umbrella of the Universal Music Group (MCA, Inc.) he was promoted to National Promotion Director for the Universal associated label group (UMG).

With the career explosion of Elton John, Morgan was then recruited to become U.S., founding General Manager of Elton John's fledgling label,The Rocket Record Company. He played a key role in the success of such artists as Neil Sedaka, The Kiki Dee Band, Cliff Richards, Colin Blumstone,The Hudson Brothers, and Brenda Russel.

Later, he entered into an agreement with former Beatle, the late George Harrison
to manage his group of companies, Dark Horse Records, H.O.T. Records, Loka Productions, and Ganga Publishing. As VP General Manager, Morgan brought his expertise to bear on all aspects of George Harrison's career, including
distribution deals with Capitol/EMI, A&M Records, and Warner Bros. Records.
He signed budding songwriters/producers and future multiple Grammy winners
Danny Kortchmar, and David Foster to artist, publishing, and production deals. Other artists of note were, Tom Scott, The Five Stairsteps, Attitudes, Splinter,and Ravi Shankar. Morgan was also involved with the Monty Python project that spawned the cult feature "The Rutles" which became the precursor to Harrison forming Handmade Films (The Life of Brian,Time Bandits, Mona Lisa, The Long Good Friday, Withnail and I, and others).