Amy Howell

Owner, Howell Marketing Strategies, LLC

Amy has 25 years of marketing, public relations and corporate communications experience in a number of industries. A graduate of Rhodes College in 1986, Amy joined Memphis' largest architectural firm (now TRO) and worked as a marketing coordinator, responsible for responding to RFP's and coordinating the firm's portfolio and library. From there, she joined a national public accounting firm, where she served on its national marketing committee and helped implement successful marketing strategies for the firm's southeast offices. Amy was then recruited by Boyle Investment Co., one of Memphis' premier real estate development companies and assumed the role of marketing director for the retail, commercial, industrial and land development divisions of the company. Following this position, she joined the City's oldest law firm and served as the marketing director for three years before founding her own firm.

Amy’s 12 years of corporate experience in architecture, accounting, real estate and law gave her a business-based springboard and now, professional services marketing makes up forty percent of her firm's work today. Since founding Howell Marketing Strategies in 1994, she has worked on national projects and expanded her business to include clients in industries such as, pharmacy management, real estate, technology, entertainment and more. Her areas of specialization include: media relations, strategy formation, key message development, crisis communication and networking.

Amy has been active in the Memphis community and has served the following organizations: Class of 1986 President, Rhodes College; Development Board of Directors, Memphis Church Health Center; Economic Development Committee, Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce; Membership Committee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Board of Directors, Memphis Chapter American Heart Association; Graduate of Leadership Memphis, Class of 1993; "Top 40 Under 40", Memphis Business Journal, 1999; current member of the Board of Directors Leadership Memphis.

In 2005, she was recognized by Memphis Woman magazine as one of "50 Women Who Make a Difference."