Joe
Phelps is the founder of The Phelps Group - one of the nation's
leading integrated marketing communications agencies located
in Southern California.
Phelps,
who started his agency 20 years ago with one client, Fender
Guitars, was named the "Entrepreneur Leader of the Year
2000" by the Los Angeles Advertising Association, is
a Belding Award-winning writer and has been featured on the
cover of Inc. magazine.
At his
agency, and prior to that at NW Ayer and Grey Advertising,
Phelps managed multi-million dollar campaigns for many of
America's and Japan's top companies.
Phelps'
revolutionary business model has been used as a case study
at numerous universities, including Northwestern, Colorado,
Pepperdine and USC. Joe lives in Pacific Palisades, California
with his wife Sylvie, son Doug and daughter Emilie.