Mark Cholvin

Experience

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  The Seattle Times

  Jan 1988 - Jan 2001

  Advertising Account Executive

  Sold newspaper advertising and all related products/services for the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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  KUOW Public Radio

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2011

  Underwriting Account Executive

  Top performer in searching out and securing underwriting funding and contributions from businesses and organizations. Raised over $3.4MM.

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  Market Enginuity

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2016

  KNKX-NPR and Classical KING FM Sponsorship Account Executive

  Advise and offer marketing solutions to businesses and organizations that wish to reach the well-educated, affluent thought-leaders who make up the public radio audience in Seattle and Western Washington. On-air and digital support messages (underwriting) directly benefit the underwriter and the audience, while also supporting the delivery of news, information and entertainment programming that both KPLU-NPR/All That Jazz 88.5fm (www.kplu.org) and Classical KING FM 98.1fm (www.king.org ) deliver. Together, both stations deliver a majority share of the public radio audience in the market.Factoid: Seattle is now the #1 market in the country for per capita public radio listening!“Do well, by doing Good, through underwriting of Public Radio” Show less

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  Clothes For Kids

  Jul 2012 - Oct 2018

  Board of Directors, Vice President, President

  Managed and worked collaboratively with board members, executive director, staff and volunteers to ensure:•Fiscal and operational health •Strategic planning •Fundraising •Program delivery and planning •Community relations •Human resource management •Worked to restructure program delivery and client accessibility and to improve all development efforts •Lead Executive Committee and chair MarComm Task Force; served terms as Vice President and President.

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  Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2020

  Associate Director of Development