Pat O'Rahilly
Patrick J. O’Rahilly, President and CEO of Aspen Marketing Services, has worked in marketing services field for more than 20 years and has an extensive experience in the retail sector. Under Patrick’s leadership, Aspen Marketing Services has grown from 100 employees to become the largest privately-held marketing services agency in the country. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Aspen Marketing, Patrick was the managing director of Creative Marketing International (CMI), a firm he founded that catered to the automotive industry in 1986. In 1994, Patrick was awarded “The Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year of the State of Illinois” for CMI’s outstanding growth rate and high employee satisfaction. Patrick began his career in marketing and retail as the President of JP Automotive Group, a mega-dealer automotive company with seven dealerships and thirteen franchises. In 2008 Patrick was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, an award shared and celebrated by more than 825 Aspen Marketing employees. Patrick currently lives with his wife and three children in the West Chicago area.