Multi-Media
Solutions Group, LLC is a company of highly talented and experienced
creative and technical men and women who have bonded together under
one umbrella in order to create a one-stop-shop for all visual and live
events needs.
Stan Valinski started in advertising in 1973 and for the past 30 years
has been involved in many memorable campaigns including the launching
of both Snapple and Boston Chicken (now Boston Market).
He
has won awards from local ad clubs to the International Festival of
Film in Cannes, France. Most importantly, his work on Buick in the 80s
was given an EFFIE the AMAs (American Management Association)
award for BOTH creativity and effectiveness in achieving and surpassing
targeted goals for Buick Motor Division. He also was named to coordinate
Buicks participation with the Special Olympics 1994.
Stan
has supervised all media buying, planning and placement for clients
with budgets from $100,000 to $6 million per year. He has specialized
in increasing client exposure with value added sponsorships
by negotiating official car status for Buick and Chevrolet
participation in events including The New York Marathon,
The GHO (Greater Hartford Open) and The Westchester
Classic golf tournaments, The Cracker Jacks Old-timers
All-Star Baseball Classic in Washington, D.C., The Special
Olympics and the Summer Olympic Games and a myriad of other
events.
Stan
is an acknowledged expert on Group or Cumulative advertising.
He has consulted for General Motors for the formation of dealer marketing
groups as well as troubleshooting for problematic markets.
Stan
came to Connecticut from Madison Ave in 1986 to coordinate all marketing
for the Chevrolet Dealer Marketing Group in Connecticut. During his
many years in the Connecticut market, Stan has established strong relationships
with all broadcasting and print entities in the state.
Bob Dio has been in the business of show business
for close to 30 years. Graduating from
the University of Hartford with a degree in Speech and Drama, he set
out on a career that has included radio, television, film and stage.
Bob is both an actor and director, bringing both sensibilities to solving
communications problems.
Acting
stage credits include: Rutledge in "1776", Pilot in "Jesus
Christ Superstar", Vitorio Vidal in "Sweet Charity",
Herr Shultz in "Cabaret", Count Dracula in "Dracula",
Flint in "The Night of January 16th", Val in "Laughter
on the 23rd Floor" and Sidney Redlich in" Bell, Book and Candle".
Stage
directorial credits include: "Death Of A Salesman", Y
In The World staged at the Bushnells Belding Theater,"I
Hate Hamlet", "Evita", "Extremities", "Front
Street" starring Ron Palillo of televisions Welcome Back
Kotter, and "Youre a Good Man Charlie Brown".
Television and screen acting credits include: "The Scarlet Letter"
starring William Hurt & Meg Foster for PBS, "The Deadliest
Season" starring Michael Moriarty & Meryl Streep for CBS, "Coma"
for Warner Brothers, and "Promises In The Dark" starring Marsha
Mason for MGM. Bob
was also the supervising producer for the nationally syndicated reality
based television series "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol".
Bob
Dio has had the pleasure of directing television commercials starring
Paul Newman, Phyllis Diller, Robert Vaughn and Hugh OBrien.
Dan
McNamara started out in childrens educational documentaries with
a company that he co-owned for 5 years called Kids and Books, Inc. The
programs were filmed on location in England, Ireland, Germany and Austria
and many locations across the United States. He left the organization
to attend the American Film Institute in Hollywood where he then worked
on independent features as assistant producer and editor.
He
returned to CT as a contract editor, cameraman and producer working
for many commercial production facilities in and around New England
where he continued to work on documentary-style programming. He traveled
to Africa in 1999 where he co-produced, shot and edited the Senegal-America
Project, which is now an on-going educational program to help connect
the world through musical collaboration.
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