About Us

Founded in 2003, Stafford is an award-winning marcom agency composed of branding experts, creatives, programmers, designers and digital ninjas.

Led by CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Huntley Ritter, Stafford specializes in crafting some of the world’s top branded and notable campaigns from strategy to distribution.

Stafford has helped market and distribute award-winning, brand-supported content across nearly every market segment on multiple continents, with measurable results leading to increased customer acquisition and engagement.

Stafford’s out of the box thinking and ability to project manage, problem solve, and execute within large and small budgets has proven successful and crucial in the new age of advertising and branded content. We routinely partner with other agencies and third parties currently working with clients to stay on brand and provide a unified creative voice when entering the marketplace.

Our Team

CEO & FOUNDER

— Huntley Ritter

Huntley is the Founder and CEO of Stafford. He is a serial entrepreneur and marketing executive with a focus in media and advertising.

Under Huntley’s tenure, Stafford provided a white-label service for Virgin Produced (the entertainment and marketing arm of the Virgin Group) from 2011 to 2016, handling all branded entertainment and advertising campaigns for the company’s global brand business within the Virgin Group and multiple brand partners. Huntley has created, produced, and helped market award-winning brand-supported campaigns across nearly every market segment on multiple continents.

Previous to starting Stafford, Huntley was an actor and film and tv producer co-starring in such films as the teenage cult classic Bring It On for Universal Pictures. Huntley thrives on helping great companies solve problems and advance their mission.  Huntley has been married for 14 years, has 2 children, 5 horses, 1 dog, and loves doing anything outdoors in Montana in his free time.

CHIEF OPERATIONS
OFFICER

— Carolyn Anderson

Carolyn Anderson has over ten years experience with Stafford where she has worked in various leadership roles as a Sr. Account Manager, Financial Controller, and on various creative teams. She is a unique blend of talent between business and creative.    

Carolyn has run highly targeted campaigns segmented in local and regional markets across North America, UK, Spain, and Australia for major brands and conglomerates including Comcast, Intermedia Outdoors, CBS, and Virgin to name a few. 

Carolyn has extensive experience managing multi-million dollar budgets, while working with and coordinating various national and international teams. She also has experience working with regulatory bodies on compliance for campaigns involving financial services, the FAA, and various unions.

Originally from Calgary, Canada, Carolyn now resides in Whitefish, Montana. 

VICE PRESIDENT

— Brian Skuletich

Brian Skuletich has over 15 years in commercial, branded entertainment, reality, documentary, digital platform, and event production as a Producer, Strategist, and Creative. 

Over the past eight years, Brian has expanded his management expertise to include digital strategy, mobile marketing, and digital distribution. He has managed the development of digital platforms, websites, and apps while incorporating ‘easy to navigate’ client-side CMS

He has extensive experience in managing and developing digital, SEO, and social strategy utilizing impactful short-form content, both visual and written. Brian’s BA in Sociology from Montana State University is completely useless in our field of work, but sometimes we gain value from it when working with focus groups and reviewing digital analytic reports.  

Brian’s work with leading local and international brands, agencies and networks has given him experience in developing ultra-low budget to multi-million dollar solutions for campaigns in all available formats.

SENIOR PROJECT
MANAGER

— Rocky Frazin

Rocky Frazin has worked as both a Unit Production Manager, Executive Coordinator, and Sr. Project Lead for a variety of clients including AAA, The American Institute of Physics, The Department of Defense, Humana, The PGA, Disney, Fox Sports, Microsoft, WWE, and Warner Brothers.

At Stafford, Rocky has developed into a Sr. Project Manager where her relentless work ethic keeps projects and teams on schedule while managing everything from campaign assets to website audits… and you better have best practice SEO standards in all digital assets or she will let you know!

Rocky is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications specializing in Radio and Television Production. 

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

— Royce Gorsuch

Royce Gorsuch has worked with Stafford in various roles over the last ten years including Director and Creative Director, and has executed campaigns for both local and international brands. He’s even directed a movie which we think is pretty cool.

Royce specializes in giving brands an inspirational/aspirational voice through highly stylized and emotional story-telling. He’s been a creative director on dozens of campaign for some of the most recognized brands in the world, including the Olympic Games, Electronic Arts, Virgin America, Intel, Reebok, Sephora, Proctor & Gamble, Nestle, and Dannon.

His award-winning campaigns with the Wounded Warriors Foundation not only led to double digit fundraising gains in multiple markets, but helped educate the country about the need to create opportunities for our wounded veterans. Royce’s creative work has been recognized by The Annenberg Foundation and the Social Impact Awards.

Strategy and Media

— David Kirshbaum

David Kirshbaum brings over a decade of experience in the digital marketing sector where he successfully started and grew two ad networks to over $3M in Revenue per year. 

David has vast experience in all areas of digital and performance marketing, including strategy, sales, development and infrastructure, while specializing in extended analytic and marketing software APIs. 

His unique relationships in the digital ad space gives Stafford access to preferred pricing and ad placement models, giving our clients discounted rates allowing for greater market penetration.  David’s hands-on approach allows Stafford to pivot to strategies returning the best results based on daily analytics.