Jon Ford is Associate Director, Communications. Prior to joining SLHI, he was a founding partner of Elevation Marketing, a strategic marketing and advertising firm. Jon spent two decades in advertising and marketing – working at agencies such as Foote, Cone & Belding, Draft Worldwide, Frankel and Rapp Collins Worldwide – serving a breadth and depth of Fortune 50 clients and industries. His toolkit includes extensive work in direct marketing, online marketing, promotions, branding, retail and customer relationship building. Jon holds a Masters of Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He also holds BA in English Literature from The University of Michigan.