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PRESIDENT, HEAD OF
STRATEGY & ACCOUNTS
Kerry Stoddard
Kerry Stoddard built her career helping
businesses tell their stories. Along the way, she
ended up writing a pretty remarkable one of her
own.
After beginning her career at Cable One
Advertising, Stoddard moved into the agency
world, learning from Gulf Coast advertising
veterans Reed Guice, Ted Riemann and Laura
Hasty. More than a decade after joining The
Prime Time Agency, she took a leap and
purchased the company when its owner retired.
Then, COVID-19 nearly erased everything she
had worked to build.
With most of the agency’s revenue disappearing
almost overnight, Stoddard faced the business
crisis she had always feared. She came out of it
with a very different definition of success.
“Sometimes success is getting knocked down,
figuring out what comes next, and continuing to
show up,” she said.
Today, Stoddard continues to push herself,
recently completing Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small
Businesses and the Gulf Coast Business Council
Master Leadership program.
She is equally passionate about mentoring young
people and showing women that ambition does
not have to come at the expense of a life and
family they love. You don’t have to choose.
Stoddard hopes to create the kind of
opportunities others once created for her.
And someday, she hopes another woman will
walk through the doors of Prime Time and realize
the next chapter is hers to write.
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