Sam Stephens, The Clark Group’s Marketing Director, brings more than 40 years of printing, sales and marketing communications experience to the business. Since joining The Clark Group in 1997, Sam has introduced numerous innovations and efficiencies to the publication and marketing of The Gold Book, particularly by introducing it as an emerging advertising vehicle which reaches a high-end demographic in Kentucky.

Sam’s experience includes Seitz and Stephens which handled direct mail production and logistics for a presidential campaign and Fuller & Dees Marketing Group in Montgomery, Alabama, a direct marketing and publishing company that became a subsidiary of Times-Mirror Corporation of Los Angeles. In the mid 70’s, Sam returned to his native Kentucky where he continued his professional endeavors in a range of capacities.

He is a graduate of the University of Louisville with a B.S. in Commerce and Marketing and a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corp.