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Dave Karraker

Dave Karraker has nearly 30 years of marketing and communications experience focused on consumer packaged goods, consumer technology, e-commerce, and retail. He started his career as a television reporter for CBS and NBC, before moving into the public relations field. He ran communications for Campari Group in North America for 12 years, as well as for Allied Domecq, then the world's second-largest wine and spirits company. He was also the Chairman of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States Public Affairs Committee. Dave led corporate and brand communications for Sony PlayStation and SEGA in the US, in addition to BlueLight.com, Kmart's e-commerce company. On the agency side, he was a vice president at Access Public Relations in San Francisco, now a Ketchum agency, as well as media strategist at Rogers and Cowan in Los Angeles.