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  • About...

    Our Creative Team:

    Sam Kephart and Ed Keyes have been collaborating on a variety of TV shows,

    corporate videos, and mutltimedia programs since 1980.

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    Biography of Samuel R. Kephart "Sam"

    Executive Producer & Host

    Sam Kephart is Executive Producer and CEO for Virtual Acumen Corp., an independent media production and marketing consulting firm, based in Spearfish, South Dakota.

     

    More than 60,000 RN’s and MD's worldwide have taken a 45-hour, 64 CEU online course, entitled ECCO, that Sam created and built from scratch for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

     

    Over the last thirty years, Sam has hosted and/or produced over two hundred and fifty TV projects, including a documentary, cable programs, commercials, corporate overviews, training videos, new technology introductions, and a music video which ran on VH-1.

     

    In the fall of 1980, Sam shot a pilot, with his same DIrector Ed Keyes, for a weekly talk show series he hosted and produced called Inward Bound..., which covered self-esteem psychology, motivation, positive communications, and alternative healthcare approaches. The show ran in San Diego from 1981-1985 and was seen on Sunday nights at 9 PM;136 half hour episodes were produced in the series.

     

    His other productions have covered a wide variety of subject matter, from the Cowboy Artists of America to San Diego: Technology’s Perfect Climate. He has also created a range of video programs for several noted platform speakers, including Dr. Anthony Alessandra, Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Marshall Sylver, and author and alternative healing expert, Dr. Deepak Chopra.

     

    Over the last 17 years, Sam has pursued strategic relationships within the internet technology industry. He’s been a former member of the San Diego Digital Multimedia Association and was a Board member, past President, and past Chairman.

     

    In addition, Sam Co-Produced and Co-Hosted a weekly internet radio show entitled Science and Society (formerly BioTech Today) and conducted more than 400 interviews. His guests were C-Level executives, partners, lead researchers, and key academicians in the areas of biotech, pharma, biomedical devices, nanotechnology, physics, and space sciences.

     

    Sam regularly coaches and mentors early stage companies.

     

    From May 2007 through early June 2008, Sam ran in the Republican primary race in South Dakota for the United States Senate.

     

    He didn’t win, however, he managed to garner 24.5% of the statewide vote on a roughly $60,000 dollar budget... an accomplishment for someone who had never run for anything previously. Sam got quite a “peek” behind the curtain of power.

     

    For a six month period in 2013 - 2014, Sam acted as a contract VP-Marketing and then Interim President/CEO for the World Trade Center San Diego. The WTCSD was Southern California’s leading international trade association.  

     

    Born and raised in Philadelphia, Sam spent his summers as a teenager working on his family’s Bar N Ranch in West Yellowstone, Montana, where he learned to ride, herd cattle, cut firewood, and fix lots of barb wire fence.

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    Biography of Edward J. Keyes "Ed"

    Executive Producer & Director

    Edward Keyes is an independent Executive Producer and Director for television content, primarily delivered to online channels.

     

    Many years of television and multimedia recording experience have provided Keyes with a skill set that has enabled dozens of Subject Matter Experts and corporate clients a successful path to reach their respective markets.

     

    Using online focused, digital video technologies, business professionals, small and medium sized companies, and organizations can utilize the expertise Keyes brings to a project.

     

    He is a writer, producer, mentor and director. Ed has a passion for honest approaches to online marketing using video and a "hands-on" work ethic.

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    Biography of Greg Wright

    Voiceover & Narrator

    Within 5 years of his first small-town overnight radio gig, Greg Wright’s Classic Rock-n-Roll Radio Show rose to #1 in The USA in afternoon drive-time!

    Hosts of the 2010 OLYMPICS: Resorts of the Canadian Rockies and Whistler & Blackcomb have requested his voice to be THEIR voice for years!

     

    Sincere, friendly, engaging, convincing, conversational, believable, happy, compassionate storyteller, smooth as velvet!

    His Hot Rod enthusiasm comes through loud & clear in his 2011 NHRA Race Promo, highlighting several years of producing NHRA National Radio/TV ads.

    Greg has personally interviewed some of the fastest men on Earth in both the NHRA and IHRA! [Ford, Chevy, Mopar, Screamin Scooters, Aviation buffs, etc.]

    Greg relates well, is easily understood, powerful & energetic with a slightly gravelly undertone. Greg has great tone, range, energy and dynamics, and has the ability to match his voice for ANY type of project he is recording.

     

    He develops a feeling of trust... with just his voice. Ask to listen to Greg's demos for proof.

     

    For more information, please call 605-896-4000

    or email rightsound@wildblue.net

  • Expert Visual Storytelling & Online Media Consulting

    "The most valuable commodity in the world is human attention."

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    Virtual Acumen Corp.

    What we do and our business model...

    Virtual Acumen is a full-service marketing and creative consulting agency without any permanent staff or large office overhead.

     

    We provide "big city" marketing advice and approaches, creative design, and cost-effective content production to small and medium-sized businesses.

     

    Because we are 'virtual', we have team members in several areas of the country and even some overseas. We bring the Hollywood film production model to marketing, advertising, and digital media production.

     

    When a client has a specific job or project, we assemble an "ad hoc" team of highly-experienced professionals to bring their street smarts, critical thinking skills, creative savvy, and production know-how to bear on the assignment at hand. This project-specific team then works together until the client is satisfied with the results and signs-off with a final acceptance of the finished work product. At that point, the team dissolves until some or all are brought together for another future project.

     

    Since 1998, we have successfully used this cost-effective virtual team creative model to deliver polished results to a wide variety of both B2B and B2C businesses in biotech, pharma, real estate, entertainment, high-tech, hospitality, communications, aerospace, construction, political advocacy, and world trade.

     

    For more information, please call 605-639-3100

    or visit www.VirtualAcumen.com

     

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    Edward J. Keyes & Associates

     

    Executive Producer/Director for television content... delivered to online channels.

     

     

    Many years of television and multimedia recording experience have provided Keyes with a skill set that has enabled dozens of Subject Matter Experts and corporate clients a successful path to reach their respective markets.

     

    Using online focused, digital video technologies, business professionals, small and medium sized companies, and organizations can utilize the expertise Keyes brings to a project.

     

    He is a writer, producer, mentor and director. Ed has a passion for honest approaches to online marketing using video and a "hands-on" work ethic.

     

    Services include:
    * Pre-production planning, scripting, and recording preparation
    * Coaching and "nudging" for best on-camera results
    * Online video recording technologies that allow a business expert to stay in their office or home (even at remote locations) for the content capture
    * Audio recording, lighting advice, scene design, graphics coaching
    * Delivery of finished video modules across online channels
    * Assessment of marketing and promotion strategies, and how to succeed using episodic video content in a fast-paced and hectic online environment.

     

    For more information, please call 858-454-5457

    or email ejkeyes@gmail.com