Romayne Levee, President

Romayne Levee is a marketing executive with a highly regarded reputation of shaping national brands such as Apple Computer, Energizer Brand Batteries, and AIS Insurance. In addition to her work in the private sector, she has effectively adapted conventional marketing practices to the unconventional challenges and opportunities of the nonprofit sector, in particular working in education with many schools. 

Romayne began her career as an advertising account executive over twenty-five years ago at the Los Angeles agencies BBDO and then TBWA Chiat/Day where she rose to the role of Partner. Following that she ran a successful executive recruiting practice for a decade, and then served in the role of VP of Marketing & Communications at AIS. 

Among Romayne’s accomplishments in the nonprofit sector is the founding of an independent high school: Vistamar School. In addition to her role as founding Board Chair and Trustee, she has contributed in a Chief Marketing role for over a decade.

Romayne had an unconventional childhood, traveling the world on a sailboat. This experience gave her an extremely discerning lens through which to view her surroundings. As a student of people, cultures, personalities, behaviors, and a graduate of UCLA, she became skilled at identifying and leveraging human insights. She counts this to be her greatest gift as a marketer—a role that requires a profound ability to understand, read and communicate with people.

Kris Rone, Senior Strategist

Kris Rone is a business and marketing executive who has experience operating, marketing, and developing business strategies and plans for companies like the Los Angeles Dodgers, Staples Center, the Los Angeles Kings, and Target Stores. She is highly regarded as an executive who brings innovation and revenue success to brands.

Most recently, Kris was the Executive Vice President of Business Operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Prior to that, she was President of Fox Sports One, responsible for all sponsorship revenue for Staples Center, the LA Kings, LA Galaxy and LA Dodgers.

Before being involved in professional sports, Kris was Senior Vice President for the Haworth Group, handling Target’s sports marketing and media efforts around the country. She began her career in advertising and has had various positions at agencies such as Deutsch LA, Chuck Ruhr, and Campbell Mithun Advertising.

Philanthropy is an important priority to Kris who has been involved with several nonprofits, including serving as Trustee for an independent high school. She has also served on the boards of Para Los Ninos and the Dodger Dream Foundation.

Julie Curtis, Senior Copywriter

Julie has been creating authentic, honest voices for brands for more than twenty years. Her work has not only won international, national, regional and local creative awards, it has also won wide consumer bases for new brands, and excited new audiences for tired brands, creating case studies that have turned her colleagues into big time CMOs! Julie has been in charge of creative work for companies in virtually every category on brands including Honda, Nissan, Disney, Shiseido, Panera Bread and La-Z-Boy. 

Whether she is naming brands, coming up with taglines, writing commercials, print ads, online content, editorial copy, outdoor, in-store, email, product pages, media kits, packaging, tutorials, social media postings or what have you, Julie is inspired to make a consumer’s relationship with a brand a rewarding emotional experience. 

Julie holds a BA from UCLA, and is actively involved on a pro bono basis with the Northern Rangelands Trust, an affiliate of the Nature Conservancy in Kenya.

Dan Ahearn, Senior Art Director

Dan has been working in the advertising field for more than 25 years and has spearheaded creative solutions that tell integrated brand stories for clients including American Honda, Russell Athletics, Toyota, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Australia Tourism, and SunTrust Bank.

His work has garnered recognition from the Effies, National Addys, Kelley Awards, Communication Arts, and The One Show.

Dan has held lead creative roles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, RPA Advertising in Los Angeles, Hill Holliday in Boston, and WestWayne Advertising in Atlanta.

Dan has also been a guest speaker at numerous schools including The School of Visual Arts in NY.

Lydia Long Pelosi, Brand Strategist

Prior to joining Doing Good Marketing as a Brand Strategist, Lydia worked for JCI creating integrated campaigns that shaped public opinion, motivated target audiences and built support for businesses, individuals and issues. At JCI, Lydia offered creative solutions and managed accounts for such clients as Raytheon, Greening of California, Celanese, Mercury Free Partnership, Veritainer and Big Air Studios.

Prior to JCI, Lydia was a financial analyst at the land developer SunCal Companies, and an associate at the real estate consulting firm, The Concord Group. Her background in real estate finance, led her to launch a sustainable building products company called EcoGurus. During the process of developing a vision and company message from scratch, she realized her passion for marketing strategy and brand communication.

Lydia is a certified LEED Green Associate and holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Virginia.