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Parker Channon
A caveat: Although he is a writer, and arguably one of the finest and funniest in the business, James Parker Channon is otherwise a man of so few words – no matter how choice – that lesser writers working on the D/C website actually have to pad his pithy autobiographizing in order to make it the same length as the others. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam dolore magna aliquam erat volputate. But I digress.
After attending UC Berkeley, Parker began his career at Foote, Cone & Belding/San Francisco. In addition to helping Pacific Bell hawk a befuddling new service called electronic mail (the kids call it: “e-mail”), he hornswoggled grown men into buying Gameboys – and an illicit love affair with the gaming industry was born.
As a partner and executive creative director at D/C, Parker has worked with nearly every major videogame company in the world, selling countless titles and garnering industry honors galore. He has also developed the innovative – and award-winning – multimedia campaign that helped Clos du Bois grow from under a million cases to more than two, and he heads the creative crew responsible for mesmerizing the well-heeled into acquiring luxury condos from, among others, Tishman Speyer. Celebrating his bourbon-soaked Louisville lineage, Parker hosts a Kentucky Derby party the first Saturday of each May which should, under no circumstances, be missed.
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