Ann has over 20 years experience in advertising and marketing, managing and developing campaigns and generating awareness to break through in the marketplace.

Ann, a Kansas native and KU graduate returned to Lawrence in 2006 with her husband and son to form Creative Road Studio (formerly Linwood Road Studio) dedicated to creating impactful image and comprehensive branding campaigns. Ann’s illustrious career, started in sports marketing and management with the Kansas Relays, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and Major League Baseball in New York where she was instrumental in establishing corporate sponsorship programs before setting her sites on Motion Picture Marketing.

As Universal Pictures' Vice President of Advertising she worked closely with filmmakers and studio management with a wide range of personalities and priorities, and was responsible for creating and implementing extremely successful full-coverage marketing plans that embraced print, audio-visual, internet, publicity and promotions.