The BrownRice Story
Mark Brown and Ward Rice founded BrownRice Marketing almost 20 years ago. Life long advertising warriors, they started their careers as key players in media sales in a unique and personal market, both quickly rising to the top of a very competitive field. While challenged by sales, they both saw an opening for a strategic marketing leader who was focused on the success of the company vs. agency kudos. In their position they worked with both sides, ad agencies and clients, and they heard often the challenges faced by the colliding goals. The ad agencies were trying to make a name for themselves by producing costly and notable creative while the clients were only interested in growing their business. Mark and Ward knew that successful creative marketing wasn’t a matter of opinion, but instead could be proven with numbers, and decided to merge their rolodex to work with local leaders with the shared goal of making their business grow.
BrownRice Marketing has weathered many storms, literally and figuratively, and today is a lean, mean fine tuned shop. With a master in every advertising specialty, the team is cutting edge and ahead of trends. The client roster is long, local and filled with companies that have been around for ages, proving that the marketing is as strong as the business. We say often and mean deeply, that our success is proven when our clients succeed. We take great pride in the work we do, but always with our client’s goals in first place. We are more than an advertising agency, we are a marketing partner and are proud unicorns in our field.
Get To Know Our Team
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Mark Brown | Partner
Mark does legendary stuff all the time. He was the first person to use the phrase “What’s Up?”
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Ward Rice | Partner
Ward has a fear of flying so he overcomes his fear by vacationing.
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Graham Sax | Digital Media Manager
Graham was born & raised in New Orleans and graduated from Isidore Newman School in 2012. After completing a summer internship at BrownRice Marketing and graduating from Ole Miss in 2016, he joined the team full-time in 2018. Most days you’ll find Graham analyzing campaign data or talking with our digital media reps to get the most out of our client’s digital advertising campaigns.
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Melissa Rauch | Bookkeeper
Our fearless bookkeeper was born & raised in New Orleans and graduated from De Le Salle. When she isn't working with numbers, Melissa taps into her creative side doing arts & crafts. She is also an animal lover and has two dogs named Tchoup and Millie!
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Autumn Miller | Social Media Strategist
Autumn is a New Orleans native, born and raised on the West Bank and a graduate of the University of New Orleans. Having found her passion in the marketing field, she's ready help spread the word about your brand and make an impact by growing social media engagement.
When Autumn is not researching the newest trend on social platforms, you can find her fine-tuning her seamstress skills, traveling, or trying out new restaurants around the city.
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Ferdie | Office Dog
We had a ruff time coming up with a description because let’s be honest, she does it all!
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Sam | Office Dog
The troublemaker