Mobium’s Managing Partner Gordon Hochhalter wins 2008 BMA Proud Award
2008-05-16
Mobium Creative Group’s managing partner Gordon Hochhalter was honored with the Business Marketing Association’s (BMA) Chicago Chapter’s Proud Award for his lifetime contribution to the marketing profession.
Hochhalter was cited for lifting the profile of Chicago business marketing in the national marketing community over the last two decades and for “reinventing the marketing behind Chicago’s Tower Awards, moving it from a quiet little awards program to a high-profile, much sought after award. And he did the same Biz Bash Auction, an event which funds the extraordinary programs offered each year by Chicago BMA.”
The Proud Award is the most prestigious award granted by the Chicago BMA. It is designed to recognize exceptional and continual contributions of time and expertise to the work of the Association over a period of several years.
When asked to comment on the honor, Hochhalter said, “The BMA has done a great deal for me in my career and I certainly am surprised, honored and grateful for the kind recognition, but I’m not dead yet.”
“This recognition is what true professionalism is all about,” said Bob Goranson, Partner at Mobium Creative Group. “It’s one thing to win an award for a piece of work. It’s something else to be respected and acknowledged for an entire career’s worth of work.
Gordon has received over 400 awards from Clio, Art Directors Club, One Show, Andy, ADDY, International Advertising Festivals of New York, DMA Echo, LA Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, London International Advertising Awards, BMA Pro-Comm, Tower, Ace, Icon, CEBA. His work has appeared in Graphis, Print, Communications Arts, BtoB, Advertising Age and Art Direction magazines as well as in The Library of Congress. He has been profiled in Who’s Who in Advertising, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America and Who’s Who in Media and Communications as well as BtoB Magazine’s Who’s Who in B-to-B for the last five consecutive years.
About Mobium Creative Group
Mobium Creative Group, with companies in Chicago and Minneapolis, is a full-service integrated business branding and communications firm specializing in business-to-business integrated communications, branding, relationship marketing, database marketing, interactive marketing, and information architecture. Clients include Time Warner Cable Business Class, Accenture, CNH Global (CNH), Océ North America (NASDAQ: OCENY), Moog Inc. International, (NYSE: mog.a & mog.b), Herff Jones, Literacy Chicago, Intermec Technologies, Pitney Bowes MapInfo and the University of Illinois Foundation.
The company was named agency of the year in 2003 by the Business Marketing Association and has been recognized as one of the top three business-to-business agencies its size for the last five consecutive years and the Top Agency of 2006 by Crain Communications’ BtoB magazine.
Mobium is also known for its educational Web site, which is an interactive book that helps business marketers, communicators, brand builders and change agents, as well as its own employees, better define revolutionary paradigm shifts in business communications and explore ways to take advantage of them. Mobium is a member of MDC Partners.