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Kitch Walker
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PRESIDENT & SENIOR MARKETING CONSULTANT
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Expertise
Kitch Walker's talent lies in his expert ability to envision, research, plan, execute and orchestrate totally integrated marketing, branding and ecommerce strategies for organizations. He's also a passionate leader and facilitator of change.
Kitch cofounded Montana-based Ripple Marketing in 1998, and has turned the firm into one of the nation's premier marketing companies for small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs/SMBs). The firm is dedicated to helping its clients seamlessly integrate creative execution with marketing science in order to achieve the client’s desired results.
Kitch is an expert in marketing including market research, strategic planning, fully-integrated marketing and marketing management. Kitch has a proven ability to gather, synthesize and interpret market/consumer insights; develop customer-centric strategic plans; and orchestrate fully-integrated marketing communication, evaluation and adaptation programs from conception to national/international roll-out.
Known to be an exceptionally innovative marketing professional, Kitch has a proven ability to envision, organize and germinate new, research-based marketing initiatives. He's often tapped by executive teams to foster and facilitate marketing-oriented, organizational change. He also has deep expertise in discovering, defining, managing and communicating an organization's unique value proposition to targeted stakeholders including customers, executive teams, vendors, media and business partners.
Kitch’s experience extends to clients beyond the United States where he has consulted and assisted Italian companies and organizations such as the Italian Trade Commission, Umbria Innovazione, World Trade Center Brescia, Bizzirri Group srl, U.Grazia s.n.c., Tessitura Pardi srl, Parlani Group and MbyM (Management by Methods).
His U.S. experience includes working with Great Harvest Franchising Inc, NxGen Payment Services, Timberline Tool, ProPharma Group, Bozeman Deaconess Hospital, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Big Sky Carvers, Montana Cooperative Development Center, National Farmers Union, Intermountain Children’s Home and Services, First Security Bank, and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (SIFMA) Foundation for Investor Education (NY).
Ripple Marketing Discovers & Launches Flat Earth Imports
Kitch Walker also serves as President and cofounder of Flat Earth Imports®, an emerging international importing, warehousing, sales and distribution model for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs/SMBs) seeking to grow their product sales in the United States.
Flat Earth Imports is uniquely aligned with and infused by Ripple Marketing's international business services and core marketing capabilities. This unique fusion between Ripple Marketing | Flat Earth Imports delivers one-of-a-kind solutions to international enterprises seeking to increase their product sales in the United States through professional U.S. market entry and/or expansion services.
Kitch provides visionary leadership to the management team as the chief architect of Flat Earth Imports' innovative international business model. Kitch is responsible for orchestrating operations, sales, marketing, distribution, finance, technology and personnel strategies at Flat Earth Imports. He has designed the platform from which to launch the Company, and fuels the ongoing synergy to propel it forward.
Currently, Flat Earth Imports is one of the nation’s leading sources for authentic, artisan-crafted Italian household goods such as home decor, home textiles, tableware and kitchenware. Flat Earth Imports provides select resellers and consumers access to one of the fastest growing collections of Autentico Italiano Guaranteed™ products and artisans available in the U.S. marketplace.
National & International Speaker/Presenter
Kitch has earned national and international recognition as a dynamic speaker whose presentations deliver marketing insights grounded in reality for groups such as the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, World Trade Center Brescia (Italy), U.S. Small Business Administration, (National) Association of Small Business Development Centers, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Fish & Wildlife, Montana Department of Commerce, Montana Department of Agriculture, Montana World Trade Center, Montana Chamber of Commerce, Montana Bankers Association and the Montana Economic Summit 2007.
Kitch often presents on a wide-range of topics including total integrated marketing, entrepreneurship, branding, customer service & sales, eCommerce, international marketing and U.S. importing, wholesale and retail.
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Education & Consultative Roles
Kitch is a triple-option graduate of Montana State University – Bozeman (MSU) where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business with options in Marketing and Business Management as well as a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences with a Fish & Wildlife Management option.
Kitch has also earned certification from the Montana Governor’s Office of Economic Development, U.S. Small Business Administration and Montana World Trade Center in the inaugural Global Trade Certificate Program and has served as an industry specialist for the program.
Kitch currently serves as past president of the MSU Leadership Institute's Advisory Board, and is a former board member of the MSU College of Business National Advisory Board, GALAVAN, Gallatin Valley Food Bank and Prospera Business Network.
Prior to Ripple Marketing, Kitch worked in the wholesale, retail and manufacturing industries. As both a district coach and department manager for Wal-Mart, he served as an internal consultant at a district level, managing staff, purchasing and inventory. His previous experience also includes warehouse and distribution management for a Cenex-Land O’Lakes Agronomy Express Center, and sales and promotions for Extended Systems, Inc.
Connect with Kitch Walker
Skype: Kitch.Walker
PH: +1 406-585-8168 Ext. 2101
Email: KitchW@RippleMarketing.com
Download: Kitch Walker's Speaker Bio (PDF)
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