Media and Sales Executive Charlie Ochs named National Sales Director for Venue™ Mobile Marketing / Business Continuity/ Emergency Response Vehicle

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--Ogden Gerard, LLC announced today that Charles “Charlie” Ochs will join the company to direct the national sales effort for the company’s new specialty vehicle, Venue™, an enclosed trailer that transforms automatically into 2,400 square feet of customizable, climate-controlled space for mobile marketing, business continuity, emergency response, emergency shelter, corporate hospitality, traveling exhibits, business displays, disaster relief, and light industrial.

Ochs brings more than 40 years of media and national sales experience to his new position, which will concentrate on Venue™ sales in mobile marketing for large and mid-size corporations; trade show exhibits; business continuity; emergency response command centers; emergency shelters; mobile disaster response; mobile clinics; emergency shelters; and military and homeland security applications.

From April 2000 to October 2008, Ochs was Senior Vice President/Market Manager of CBS Radio’s six stations in the Tampa Bay, Florida market, which included the metropolitan area’s top ranking country, urban, jazz, sports, classic hits, and Hispanic stations. As general manager, Ochs was responsible for a staff of more than 250, and total sales of $50-million and the stations' business continuity plans. Prior to coming to Tampa Bay, Ochs spent 10 years in Washington DC as Vice President/Market Manager of Viacom’s (later AMFM, inc.) four radio stations.  Prior to that he managed radio stations in Tampa and San Diego, and was in radio programming as a top rated on-air personality in Houston, Phoenix and several other western US markets. He was a U. S. Army combat correspondent in Viet Nam, twice earning both the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He also was awarded the Army Commendation Medal with “V” for valor, the National Defense Ribbon, and various campaign medals.

As National Sales Director for Ogden Gerard, Ochs will manage a team of independent representatives in each of Venue's vertical markets such as: business continuity and mobile marketing; corporate hospitality; mobile emergency response; trade show exhibits; traveling exhibits; and defense/homeland security. Ochs will work with each representative to develop targeted sales and marketing plans and manage their execution by category and region.

“This is a tremendously exciting opportunity,” Ochs said. “Venue has endless applications across a host of public and private industries and services. It will change the national landscape for emergency response such as business continuity, as well as mobile marketing, including corporate hospitality.”

In addition to its versatility as a mobile marketing or mobile emergency vehicle, Venue is fully self contained, and carries all of its equipment and furnishings within the trailer.

Venue's ability to arrive on a scene, deploy and be fully operational in under two hours is a technological leap forward for business continuity plans and any type of disaster response, Ochs said.

"In disaster response deployments, whether it's for emergency shelters or other disaster recovery such as communications, clinics or business continuity centers, it's critical that all essential parts arrive together and on time, and Venue answers this need perfectly," Ochs said. "Customers from corporate sponsor hospitality users to first responders and command center users, do not have to worry if their secondary shipments and equipment will get there on time. When Venue™ rolls up, whether it's for emergency response, emergency shelter, a mobile marketing event or as a trade show exhibit, it has everything it needs to be up and running immediately."

Eric Gerard, Ogden Gerard’s managing member, said Ochs "brings talent, experience and charisma to this position. Charlie understands cross-vertical marketing as few people do, and his insight into Venue's adaptability from mobile marketing to disaster response to business continuity, brings value beyond measure.”

Venue's exclusive manufacturer is Frontline Communications, based in Clearwater, Florida, and a division of Oshkosh Corp. .

Frontline http://www.frontlinecomm.com/ has built and delivered over 1,000 broadcast, communications and command vehicles all over the globe, and is a leader in its field.

To learn more about Ogden Gerard, LLC and Venue™, visit http://www.venuevehicles.com/.

Ogden Gerard, LLC is the developer and exclusive dealership for Venue™ multi-purpose vehicles.