Mark Rood: President / Co-Founder
Mark co-founded American Consulting Services in 1985 after several years consulting with small business advertising and marketing strategies. Mark’s first training program, A Closer Look at Yellow Page Advertising, became a very successful sales training program throughout the newspaper and broadcast industry. A sought after speaker, Mark has addressed dozens of national and regional conventions for media and various business industries. Mark lives outside Camas, Washington with his wife Kate and their two children. (360) 838-2349 mrood@toma.com

Thomas O. Ludwig: Vice President Media Services
Tom joined TOMA Research in 1990. He has trained over 5,000 sales executives in radio and newspaper throughout the United States and Canada. He’s worked with over 400 individual newspapers. His 24 years of advertising experience also includes eight years of radio account sales in the Portland, Oregon market and helping to start an Oregon/Washington News Network, in charge of developing Sales and Marketing.

He has lived in the Portland area for 26 years with his wife Ann and three children. Number one priority in TOMA training…”Leave the paper with the knowledge that I have helped them to become a better sales staff.” (360) 838-2342 tludwig@toma.com