management team

	Brian Snider President and Chief Creative Officer Brian S. Snider is President and Chief Creative Officer of The GRI Marketing Group, a 21 year old full-service marketing communications agency based in Trumbull, CT. GRI is a multiple Folio award winner whose client list includes Columbia House, BusinessWeek, Time Consumer Marketing, Crain Communications, Dow Jones, Forbes, Nature Publishing, Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes Global Finance, Premiere Global Services, Reed Business Information, The Hartford, VNU Exhibitions, W.W. Grainger, and dozens more. In his 21 years of running GRI, Mr. Snider has been personally involved with hundreds of campaigns for both b-to-b and b-to-c. He has spoken at several industry functions including the DMA’s 87th annual Exhibition copywriting and strategy roundtables. Prior to GRI, he held Sales Executive positions at Western Union and Electronic Mail Corp. of America. At Western Union, he was responsible for sales of electronic document messaging and data services to Telcomm and IT executives. A top producer among over 500 Western Union national field sales pros, he accumulated over 20 sales awards from local to regional to national. He was part of a national task force that was instrumental in creating “high-level” sales tactics and strategies. After Western Union, he had a one year stint at Electronic Mail Corp. of America in sales then left to form GRI. He is a past president of the Direct Marketing Club of New York and served on their executive committee for six years. Brian supports The Special Olympics of CT, Make a Wish Foundation, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Leukemia Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and the Bridgeport Rescue Mission. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in Business Administration from Northeastern University.
	Eileen Hilinski Senior Director of Client Services Eileen has been with the GRI Management team for over 8 years. She is responsible for all client services which include account management, print production, lettershop, email efforts and data processing. Her background in product management is an asset in executing mail strategies for our clients. Eileen’s direct marketing career started at CUC International Inc. where she was the Product Manager for Autovantage. Prior to joining The GRI Marketing Group, Eileen was a Program Manager at Pitney Bowes. She ran retention efforts for the Small Office Division as well as direct mail and telemarketing programs. Eileen graduated with high honors in Business Administration from the State University of New York.
	Laura Farrell Senior Art Director Laura has been the Senior Art Director for GRI since 1997. In this capacity, Laura has won several industry awards including 3 Folio’s in one year. She is responsible for directing graphic design for most of GRI’s accounts including Time magazine, The Hartford, Sport Illustrated, Columbia House, and Pitney Bowes. Ms. Farrell began her career in B-to-B as the Art Director of Promotions at Cowles Business Media in Stamford, CT. There she created a wide variety of promotions for 5 publications and several conferences. Next, she had a brief stint as Art Director for Space Age Printing & Graphics where she directed projects for Marriott Hotels, Westfield Shopping Centers and MBI. Laura graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from SUNY Purchase in Purchase, NY.
	June Fernandez Art Director Previously, June was employed by Tanen Directed Advertising in Norwalk, CT as Art Director. She has worked on accounts that include MasterCard, Citibank, Avis, Nabisco and Harvard Business Review. June has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the School of visual Arts in New York, NY.