Wayne has been with the company since 2002, after a career in marketing that started with RL Polk & Co. in 1989. Over his 25-plus career in marketing, he has worked with many Fortune 500 companies including Farmers Insurance Group, General Motors, GMAC, Ford Motor Company, and CIT Group, to name a few. Wayne specializes in full-service direct mail programs, i.e., market conception, data targeting and manipulation, creative direction and copy, package mechanics reproduction, print management, production follow-through, and back-end analytical studies.

David has over 25 years of Telecommunications/Broadband industry experience. Senior management/executive positions held in Operations/Marketing and Sales with the likes of Cisco Systems, Scientific-Atlanta, Rogers and McCaw Communications. David has had many years of strategic campaign management along with implementation and execution of integrated marketing initiatives. Additionally, he has worked on the vendor side of the business supporting many Fortune 500 clients such as Time Warner, Comcast, Qwest, DirecTV, Intel and PGE.

Walter L. Aman has served as AKA’s hands-on IT Director for over three decades. His background dates from the earliest days of mini-computers, through a series of ever-larger IBM Mainframes – from the birth of PCs to the design and implementation of multi-server enterprise networks.

While having learned from necessity how to construct workstations and servers from scratch, his priority is and has always been the integrity and security of client data. In his three decades at AKA, Walt has managed the corporate consumer databases for Fortune 100 corporations including NIKE. He’s been responsible for the security of confidential employee and stockholder databases for the nation’s largest corporations including IBM, Intel and Coca-Cola. He’s also managed private voting records for the RNC and processed data containing the highly confidential voting and taxpayer data of millions of citizens for several states, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Technology and IT at AKA Direct are designed and managed with one singular mission: to serve our clients and protect their data assets. This has been Walt Aman’s watch since the 1970s. His focus and commitment to that mission is constant and unwavering. It is personal and it is permanent.

As AKA’s Controller since 1986, Mary Jane Aman is intimately familiar with the devil in the details of print, mailing and fulfillment services. In addition to impressive academic credentials (she holds advanced degrees from Portland State University), Mary Jane brings to the AKA management team a broad business experience in accounting, management information systems and human resource administration. She has held key positions in a wide variety of privately-owned businesses as well as major public sector agencies. Mary Jane’s watchful eye assures that AKA clients benefit from the lowest possible postage and freight rates. Her daily focus is on rigorous record keeping, diligent attention to detail, the most efficient possible internal operations and the preparation of clear, legible, easily understood invoices to all AKA clients. Her wealth of experience inside the industry and in the larger world of business, government and community service adds valuable perspective to the AKA management team.

Laura is a gifted facilitator, an eager study and a willing and able partner to all of her clients, She provides an unequalled depth and breadth of knowledge of both direct marketing disciplines and internal AKA systems and processes. Her years of experience as a Mail Production Manager with clients in numerous industries from small projects to massive mailing assignments, allow Laura to provide high quality, responsive coordination and communication skills to all of our clients.