WHO WE ARE. Knockout Marketing (KO Marketing Group LLC) is a Charlotte-based, creative and marketing solutions provider formed by Keith Karr and Owen Ryan in 2016. KO Marketing officially merges the long-standing collaboration of their individual companies Karr Creative and Owen Ryan & Associates. K = Keith Karr: Founder of Karr Creative. Highly accomplished visual communicator, web designer and f
ilm maker/photographer. Graduate of VCU | Communication Arts & Design. Founder with his wife Joanne of Union Jack Photography and Film Production. O = Owen Ryan: Award-winning copywriter and Creative Director at multiple NYC Ad Agencies. Founder of Owen Ryan & Associates (An Imagination Agency®) and founder of multiple start-up ventures in CPG, magazine publishing, and Direct-To-Consumer categories. WHAT WE DO:
Develop and execute breakthrough marketing and sales promotion ideas. Serve as confidential “Second Opinion” advisor to management & BOD’s regarding key marketing, strategy and/or crisis management situations. WHO WE’VE WORKED FOR. Keith and Owen include in their client resumes work with some of the most well-known marketers and CEO’s in American business. Assignments have ranged from brand development and mission-critical Crisis Communicaions matters for Anheuser-Busch, Westinghouse and Johnson & Johnson to new product development and brand introductions for Kraft Foods, J&J, JP Morgan/Chase Bank and Sony Pictures. Owen Ryan has worked as a strategy and corporate communications advisor to top management at Kraft Foods, Safeway stores, Citibank, Blackstone Group and GE. Separately, Karr and Ryan through their collaboration with Silicon Valley based Founder Institute – the World’s leading tech entrepreneur and education program — have helped launch tiny web-based and tech start-up ventures.