Major / Graduation Year: | | Architecture '85 |
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Residence: | | Traverse City |
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Job Title / Description: | | Owner/Founder, Britten Banners, Inc., one of the country’s leading banner manufacturers with clients including the Walt Disney Co., NASCAR, and the NBA |
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Early jobs or career experiences: | | Early on, I sold General Motors an enormous Tigers-themed banner for $5,000 that draped across 10 stories of the automaker's Detroit headquarters to celebrate the Detroit Tigers 1984 World Series win. |
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Most Useful Career Skills I've learned: | | Keep developing innovative products, such as Truckskin (slide-in banners that transforms trucks into rolling billboards) and MallPaper (life-sized photographs of stores printed on vinyl for vacant spaces in shopping centers). |
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