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Chuck Donofrio
Chief Executive Officer, Carton Donofrio Partners, Inc.
General Manager, Context-Based Research Group

Chuck Donofrio As the president and chief executive officer of Carton Donofrio Partners, Inc., Chuck Donofrio oversees the development of new businesses and products that improve value for clients’ customers and constituents. Chuck is highly involved with the day-to-day business and is intimately involved with fostering a culture of creative thinking.

In 2001, after a five year period in which the company doubled in revenue, Chuck led the transformation of Richardson, Myers & Donofrio, an integrated marketing communications company, into Carton Donofrio Partners, a brand experience design firm specializing in advertising, public relations, interactive media, anthropological research, brand consulting, and customer experience management.

Prior to joining the firm in 1983, Chuck spent the earlier years of his career in account management at Young & Rubicam/New York where he worked on the General Foods International Coffees account and related Maxwell House Division new products, The United Negro College Fund, and Eastern Airlines. Before joining Young & Rubicam, he worked in Seattle for Cole & Weber, a subsidiary of Ogilvy & Mather, on the Westin Hotels account.

Chuck is a cum laude graduate of Union College. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Goucher College (Towson, Maryland) and as a Director of the Children's Hospital at Sinai Foundation. He is also a member of the National Advertising Review Board, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Agency Management Committee. Chuck also previously taught freshman Composition at the University of Montana.

In addition to his work and civic responsibilities, Chuck is also an avid birdwatcher, poet, writer, outdoorsman, and most importantly a husband and father to three girls.