Ed Howie has leveraged his over 25+ years of marketing and operational leadership with Chick-fil-A, Inc., Atlanta Bread Company, and H-E-B Grocery to support his clients and lead his team of communication experts through unique collaboration in growing sales and market share by developing and enabling operationally-sound, visually-compelling, brand-centric solutions. BTYcreative serves clients throughout the country, with offices in San Antonio, Austin, and Atlanta.
With depth in both marketing and operations, Ed and his team have an unusually successful track record in maximizing his clients’ brand potential. Ed is also a gifted communicator, presenter, and facilitator.
Ed’s core strengths are: ideation, strategic, woo (winning others over), connectedness, and positivity.
In addition to leading BTYcreative, Ed is a founding partner of gusto! restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia, and a member of Entrepreneurs Organization. In 2015, Ed became a certified spin instructor. He teaches indoor cycling several times a week at Joyride Cycling Studios in San Antonio and frequently at exhale Atlanta.
Ed previously served as Director of Food Service Marketing for H-E-B Grocery Company, a $15 billion regional grocery store chain. H-E-B is long regarded as one of the most innovative retail organizations in the world. Prior to H-E-B, Ed led the re-branding efforts of Atlanta Bread Company-Bakery Cafes, as Director of Marketing. He built his career with Chick-fil-A for 17 years—the last 10 of which he served on the Corporate Operations Team, while leading multiple brand development projects.
Ed graduated from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a degree in Journalism-Advertising. He also completed his MBA at Kennesaw State University while traveling 120 days a year at the same time.
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