RON MARCUS | CEO & Producer
Ron Marcus has been eating, breathing and sleeping branding and marketing for over twenty years.
He got his bachelors in Marketing at San Diego State University in 1989. Throughout the ’90s, he held Manager and Director of Marketing Communications positions at several high tech companies. He also took a 2-year break from this in 1995 to co-run a boutique branding firm, returning to in-house marketing in 1997, when he also started his MBA program at University of Redlands. Finishing that in 2000, Ron led marketing communications at two more startup tech firms before launching Epiphany Marketing, another boutique branding firm, in 2003.
Over the next five years, the Epiphany team created brands and communications in multiple media for clients large and small, business and consumer, in many industries.
Ron has always had a keen interest in entertainment as well as branding. With the confluence of:
- San Diego as an emerging cosmopolitan center; and
- the advent of Web 2.0 and broadband video,
Ron realized an exciting opportunity to create something new and lucrative: an online TV show about San Diego lifestyle and entertainment. He launched Shindy.TV in 2007. (Watch Shindy.TV now!)
As Shindy.TV surged in popularity and the team gained experience with Web 2.0 and entertainment production, Ron saw the next great opportunity: create a new kind of brand promotion studio that does for other lifestyle brands what we’ve done for Shindy.TV. The result is our new branding company, Shindy Media!
When Ron isn’t spreading brand fever with Shindy, he enjoys a wide variety of activities:
- jogging & cycling
- karate and yoga
- playing bass, keyboard and cello
- volunteering with causes
- goofing with gadgets
- dabbling in foreign languages
- traveling as much a possible (including Spain, Israel, UK, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Canada, Hawaii, and many U.S. destinations)
- making friends!
Ron is a Southern California native and has called San Diego home since 1985.