Marianne Huval is an experienced manager and marketing professional with a diverse background in campaign advertising, targeted marketing projects and Internet advertising and sales.

From 1987 through 1995, she was the Advertising Manager of United Investment Corporation, handling all aspects of advertising for 18 finance offices in a tri-parish area.

From 1995 through 1998, she was the Advertising Director of WickNet, the online division of Wick Communications, where she oversaw implementation and management of 33 online newspapers, their client base website design, banner advertising, and new product development.

The following 2 years she worked at Nola.com and MardiGras.com, (two of thirteen Internet divisions of Advance Publications) handling local and national ad sales and marketing projects.


Huval is currently the president of her own consulting and design firm, New Directives. She has spoken to the following organizations for educational training or conferences:

• Arizona Newspaper Association (ANA)
• New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
• Louisiana Industrial Development and Education Association
• Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA)
• Mississippi Press Association
• Mississippi Hospital Association
• The Manufacturing Extension Partnership of LA (MEPOL)
• West St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce
• Southeastern Louisiana University (Covington Campus)
• National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC)

Her keen ability to communicate on layman's terms and an emphasis on education has brought rave reviews on the speaking circuit.

Over time she has worked with a diverse group of newspapers and government bodies on various Internet consulting projects - The New York Times Regional News Group, Western Newspapers, Inc., Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Wick Communications, St. Tammany Registrar of Voters and St. Tammany Parish Government.

She is a member of the St. Tammany/Washington Parishes Homebuilders Association and the National Association of Women in Technology. She has also served on the Leadership Council for the United Way Serving St. Tammany and is a member of the National Association of PhotoShop Professionals.

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