Jenny Brooks Stang
Owner & President – AKA Top Cat
As owner and president of Brooks Advertising, Jenny oversees all aspects of the business, including media planning and placement, as well as creative collaboration for multiple genres of clients nationwide. With almost two decades of creative and marketing experience, she has cultivated excellent relationships with an array of advertising outlets across the country including, but not limited to, radio, television, outdoor, online, print and social media. Her relationships and experience ensure the most precise media plans with the least amount of waste.
A little somethin’ extra about the “Top Cat”:
Jenny Brooks Stang moved to Arizona in the early 90’s from New Jersey to attend Arizona State University. After majoring in Architectural Design for four years, she decided to change her focus to business marketing and later merged her design background with her degree in business marketing to pursue a career in advertising. After working in the advertising field for four years, she founded Brooks Advertising, Inc.
In February of 2011, Jenny was asked to be a guest on 93.3 KDKB's morning show "The Sludge Nation". Shortly after her appearance (which centered around "relationship advice"), she was offered a permanent position as "co-host" opposite Brian "Sludge" Haddad and the morning show personality, Hippy Dom. After 10 months on the show and a healthy increase in the Arbitron ratings, "Sludge" accepted a position with a radio group in the Philadelphia market. The station decided at that time to suspend the show and Jenny's radio career was put on the shelf. She loved the opportunity to do something that she had never dreamed of doing and thanks Brian "Sludge" Haddad for seeing a talent in her that she never knew existed!
Jenny’s favorite activities include golfing, snowboarding, working out, running, yoga, traveling and dancing. She currently lives in North East Mesa, AZ and is engaged to be married to the man of her dreams. She is the proud mother of two incredible children, daughter, Sydney and son, Gage. Jenny believes that she leads a truly blessed life and is always open to new opportunities and experiences that can enhance life for herself, her fiancé and her wonderful children.
Karen Knudsen
Partner – Queen of Results
Relax, you are in extremely trained hands. My extensive retail advertising career has been building steam since 1997. I am lucky enough to help great clients grow their businesses, and if you hire Brooks, you work directly with the agency principal who has extensive experience in automotive advertising. My only focus is to attract more customers…could be through email marketing, promotions, social media, campaigns for television, radio, print, direct mail, or digital. My awesome team and I will put together kick-butt creative and an advertising strategy just for you, and constantly come up with ideas to help you make more money. And you might have to have fun working.
In my free time you might find me hiking Camelback mountain, road trippin’ to the beach, singing Bach, or running a half marathon on the Great Wall, depending on the day. I live in Gilbert with my two amazing yet “spirited” children, who teach me more than I could ever teach them, and without whom, I would be lost.
Careena Daly
Executive Assistant Extraordinaire
Careena has many years of experience being awesome at everything, so we snatched her up as soon as we could! As executive assistant, Careena manages all of us. She takes care of client needs, coordinates a million projects at once, and makes sure we all get everything done on time. She’s brilliant at solving all challenges, finding new ways to be ultra efficient, and getting jobs done in about a quarter of the time of a “normal” person. She truly is a superhuman and we can’t live without her!
A few additional nuggets about our Executive Assistant Extraordinaire…
Careena grew up in Mesa, AZ before moving to the White Mountains to support her husband through school. Spending time with her family is her favorite hobby, and she also enjoys reading, cross stitching, hiking, running, working out, and learning new things. She is a new mother to a beautiful baby girl Gwen and enjoys watching her learn and grow every day. Careena enjoys working and loves to push herself to be her best every day. She feels so blessed to have a loving family and enjoys every minute of every day with them.