Lee Morgan is a native of Yellow Springs, Ohio where he was raised, educated and now works as President and CEO of The Antioch Company. The company manufactures, packages and markets more than 3,000 products including photo albums, scrapbooks, calendars, bookplates and bookmarks to independent sales consultants and retail dealers around the world. It is the parent company of Creative Memories and Our Own Image, both direct selling divisions of the company, as well as Antioch Publishing.
Lee’s father Ernest founded the Antioch Bookplate in Yellow Springs in 1926. Lee began work at the company in 1968 when there were about 30 employees and revenues were about $300,000 per year. Now the Antioch Company employs over 1,000 people in five locations in the United States, and has offices in over 10 countries with total revenues in excess of $300 million per year. The Company is an employee-owned company through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that Lee began in 1979.
In addition to his role as Chairperson of The Antioch Company, Lee has served as a board member and officer in numerous corporations, both non-profit and for-profit.
Prior work experience includes stints as a traveling salesman, a department store Santa Claus, a volunteer for two years in Rural South India, a government bureaucrat, and a volunteer with UNICEF in Thailand.
Vicki Morgan is Senior Executive Director with Creative Memories, a division of The Antioch Company that markets heirloom scrapbooks and photo albums through direct sales consultants. She was one of the original six consultants with the company, and continues a rigorous sales volume in Ohio, Minnesota, and throughout the country. She has received numerous national awards and recognition for her work with the company, and continues to contribute to its growth through national and regional trainings and committee service.
Raised in Pennsylvania, Vicki came to Yellow Springs to attend Antioch College. While she considers Yellow Springs her home, she spends about three-quarters of her time taking care of her granddaughter and grandson in Minnesota.
She has served on the board of numerous charitable organizations and is active in fundraising for local causes. She is especially proud of her service as president of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, which reached $1 million in assets under her leadership.
Her previous work experience includes being a franchise co-owner of two Curves gyms, a self-employed marketing and public relations consultant, a sales representative, and a teacher of English as a foreign language.
Matt Morgan founded Ego Machine Productions in 2005 to provide a vehicle for bands and other music related enterprises to avail themselves of the video, audio and internet opportunities for promotion. He and his business partner, Sean Devine, have produced several DVDs for area bands, as well as training and promotional DVDs for profit and non-profit groups.
Prior to starting his own business, Matt worked in the environmental field as a water quality monitoring field technician with Altivia and organized his own band, in which he played the bass guitar. He has continued to perform and jam with other local bands, both as a bass guitarist and lead vocalist.
Matt graduated from Antioch College with a B.A. in environmental studies and has taken additional courses at Wright State University and Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Asha Morgan Moran is President of Creative Memories, a division of The Antioch Company that markets heirloom scrapbooks and photo albums through direct sales consultants. With the company since 1999, Asha is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of Creative Memories worldwide. Her mission is to keep the company growing profitably in harmony with the mission and values on which it was established. She came to Creative Memories with business consulting experience at both Andersen Consulting and the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, specializing in market channels, product-to-market strategies and business development.
Asha is a member of the board of directors of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation. She received her BA in economics from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa and her MBA from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She resides in St. Cloud, Minnesota, with her husband Marty and their two children.
Marty Moran founded Clear Path Investment Partners in 2005, an equity investment fund that targets privately held businesses with revenues of less than $10 million, and Clear Path in 2002, a business consulting firm that works side by side with ownership and management teams to help them enhance owner value by preparing for and growing towards the future. Additionally, Marty has been involved in various franchise and real estate ventures.
Prior to starting Clear Path, Marty worked in a number of different industries for Surebridge, the Valspar Corporation, Anderson Consulting's Strategy Consulting Group, and McMaster-Carr Supply Company. Marty has worked in various general management and functional roles, including Sales and Marketing, Strategic Planning, Supply Chain Management, and Information Technology.
Currently, Marty serves on the Board of Directors for Endurable Building Products, and the Advisory Boards for Marco and K-Netica. Marty's community involvement includes the Board of Directors for the St. Cloud Area Family YMCA, the Morgan Family Foundation, and the Anderson Entrepreneurial Center.
Marty graduated with a Master's in Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Michigan. Marty and his wife Asha live in St. Cloud with their two children.
