Our Leadership
Rick Reed, President
Rick has worked in the areas of public relations and marketing, including political campaign management, for more than 40 years.
Rick graduated from WSU in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in English and later obtained a master’s degree in Education from Pepperdine University, California. (At WSU, Rick played football as a defensive back for the Cougars, setting several interception and punt return records. A 1997 poll of Washington football coaches and sportswriters named Rick one of the five best defensive backs ever produced in the state.)
As a writer and account executive in Seattle for a number of years, Rick handled promotion and marketing for clients ranging from Airborne Freight Corporation to the Seattle Center (where he promoted and named the Seattle Center arts festival “Bumbershoot”).
Rick moved to Hawaii in 1977 and become well-known for his successful battle against organized crime in the Islands. He was twice elected to the Hawaii State Senate and managed several statewide political campaigns. Since retiring from politics and returning home to Snohomish, Rick has orchestrated grassroots campaigns, including a successful effort to stop the taxpayer-financed expansion of a privately-owned airport in the Snohomish floodplain.
One of the many battles Rick has joined on behalf of the environment, working to enlist public participation in a common cause, is depicted in the video below.
Jenn Reed, Founder and Strategic Advisor
Jenn Reed is author of Office 365 for Dummies, a book based on the latest Microsoft cloud technology. Office 365 is a revolutionary technology that allows individuals and companies of all sizes to create and maintain a virtual office in the cloud. Featuring the familiar Microsoft Office 2010 applications and their web app companions, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online, Office 365 offers businesses and professionals a flexible and easy way to work on the go from a PC, on a browser, and a smartphone. This means that you now have access to critical information anytime, anywhere allowing you to become more productive and efficient as the cloud becomes a part of your daily life.
Jenn holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and has more than 10 years’ combined experience in project management, administration, small business, and consulting. Customer service-oriented, Jennifer is a PMI-certified project management professional and Certified Scrum Master who excels at translating ambiguous requirements into actionable strategies and measurable projects. She has worked for a wide range of clients implementing business productivity solutions using MS SharePoint, MS Office, cloud solutions, and other Microsoft technologies as well as open source content management systems (CMS). She provides consulting services to various small businesses and nonprofit organizations on technology solutions, presentations, database design, website design and development, SharePoint implementation, and project management.
Understanding the important role our children play in making the world a better place, Jennifer and her son Siddha launched a social networking site (www.moovavi.com) designed to inspire young people to improve the world. Jennifer also serves as a Trustee for the Crisis Clinic and is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Disclosure: Although Jennifer is an employee of Microsoft Corporation, the opinions and views expressed in this blog are hers and do not necessarily state or reflect those of her employer.
