Just a Snippet
Lynn has over 40 years of marketing communications experience which includes: branding, advertising, developing market strategies, media planning and placement, package design, print management, public relations, and creative direction for many national and local accounts. Lynn’s best-recognized work is the logo he designed for the Wounded Warrior Project.
He began his career as a package designer at Piedmont Label Company. His packaging experience included Heinz, Carriage House Foods, Roddenberry, Dow Chemicals, Farm Fresh Supermarkets, Food Lion, and several others. Lynn has designed roughly 7,500 different pieces of packaging.
Later, after joining First Colony Life Insurance Company which became GE Financial (Genworth), he served as Marketing Communications Leader and Brand Compliance Manager, where he supervised a communications team of around 20 and was responsible for advertising, communications, public relations, and marketing for several life insurance-annuity and Long Term Care insurance companies, business units, product factories and distribution systems. His responsibilities included brand compliance for GE Financial, at that time 1/8 of General Electric. Lynn received several awards in the Life Insurance industry, such as the Insurance and Financial Communicators Association's top awards in Trade Advertising, Agent Promotions and several other categories.
Lynn later worked for Schawk Canada (one of the world’s largest brand support companies )— His responsibilities included sales of web-based applications that included DAMs (Digital Asset Management systems) and Co-Op advertising and ad generation systems.
From 2001 until 2008, Lynn ran Axis Creative, a marketing communications firm in Bedford, Virginia serving over 300 clients with a broad range of marketing services. Since changing the name to Stimulus, that client base has grown to over 500, most recently the agency experience has grown to include the Lynchburg Foundation, Mincon, YMCAs, Hanwha, Lumicor, Central Virginia Family Physicians, Collaborative Health Partners, Walk-In-Care, Westminster Canterbury, Petty, Livingston, Dawson & Richards Law Firm, several government entities, the United Spinal Association, Catalyst Communications, the National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (NAILBA), the Wounded Warrior Project, Lincoln Financial, AIG and Nationwide Financial — just to name a few.
Lynn enjoys spending time with his family, especially his new granddaughters, Maddie and Mia. But, you can also find him in his boat on Smith Mountain Lake catching fish (catch and release of course). When the day is over, you will probably hear him laughing to some good ol' British and Australian TV shows.
