Christopher Ming Ryan writes, produces, and directs strategic marketing videos. He helps organizations sell, recruit and train.
Chris is a co-founder and principal at Wheelhouse Communications.
Wheelhouse clients include: PepsiCo, AT&T, ITT, Columbia University, Pepsi Bottling Group, Random House, Bank Street College of Education and American Express.
Wheelhouse content appears in internal meetings, sales conferences, and the web. An example of a viral video success (client: Random House) is here.
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Chris' blog The Way We Watch provides strategy for new media, PR, web video marketing, production and social networking.
A good place to start reading his blog is here.
Back-story:
- Chris received his BA degree at Wesleyan University.
- Chris earned his Actor's Equity card playing a gang member in America's Most Wanted - as of this writing his character has not been captured.
- Chris worked traditional PR and Media Relations for AT&T in New York City. He had the crazy idea to hold the launch of AT&T WorldNet in the Brooklyn Diner on 57th Street, NYC. Days later his idea of giving away AT&T Software in Grand Central Station via employees on apple boxes morphed into a giveaway at AT&T's internet HQ. Thousands of people showed up and we got a front page NY Times article for the hard work.
- Chris wrote and produced a number of best-selling how-to videos while he was a partner at TimeLine Entertainment.
- Chris loves the process of creating videos. It's a puzzle and
discovering the concept that makes the show unique and memorable is his
favorite part.
- Chris has won the Silver Telly, the Bronze Telly, ITVA, Communicator, Infocomm and NY Festival awards. It's nice stuff, but he'd much rather have a repeat customer.
- He's visited Graceland once. China twice.
- In the eighties, Chris performed stand-up comedy in New York City clubs. He remembers hanging with Ray Romano, being so impressed with Joy Behar and enjoying the experience tremendously every 1 out of 4 times he did it.
- Before Wheelhouse, Chris designed, produced and directed hundreds of marketing videos while Executive Producing at TimeLine, AT&T Creative Services, and Brainstorm Productions. Clients include: AT&T, Lucent, Seagrams, Hearst, Spencer Trask, ADP, and BearingPoint.
Chris is married and has two perpetually growing kids and one dog. He lives in New York City.
Representative past blog posts: production best practices, web video, social media and career strategy.
Disclaimer: The views expressed at Chris' blog do not necessarily reflect the views of Wheelhouse Communications nor its clients.
