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William Foard
    William Foard predates the slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" but its essence has been a lifelong mantra for the maverick artistic director driven to create, invent, design, and produce.
    As a young boy it was not uncommon to find him in front of a little record player directing the likes of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. That led to becoming an accomplished tenor and undisciplined guitarist/pianist performing on Honolulu's famed Kalakaua Avenue, in college talent shows, opera productions and in a special appearance for President Harry Truman.
    He left high school art to pursue music, but art never left him. Growing up in the shadow of a major art gallery he was something of a museum "brat," his presence amid Renaissance masters keeping guards on their toes. With parents who placed a high priority on the arts and a penchant for performance and promotion, it was a fait accompli when at 25 he went out on his own and never looked back.
    Entrepreneurship did not come magically. Foard was a business major in college. Shortly after graduating he produced a successful series of 13 joint concert/art  events for the City of Kansas City, MO. He also cut his teeth in the corporate world with Chrysler Corporation as a Marketing Executive Trainee and District Sales Manager.
    In 1975 he organized Belle Street Productions with artist Joan Langworthy and was soon joined by audio producer Larry Johnson, composer Rick Carlton and publisher Neil Stempleman. The company offered a one-stop solution to the media needs of advertisers and institutions.
    In 1980 Foard reorganized as Communication Design Associates, Inc. a full service advertising and creative marketing agency known for high-end graphic design. The firm pioneered the use of computers in the graphic arts.
    In 1987 he founded Foard Entertainment Network, Inc. to produce and distribute "Baseball Sunday," a coast-to-coast radio talk show he created for syndication on 200 stations.
    Media ventures are a mainstay. Foard has served as creative marketing consultant to The Kansas City Star and Los Angeles Times and helped launch Brentwood Media  of Los Angeles, publishers of the "Brentwood News," "Santa Monica Sun" and others. As a consultant for Media Viability Fund, New York University and National Press Institute, Moscow, he created marketing plans and designs for newspapers in Russia and Ukraine
    He is known in entertainment for event and artist promotional design including work for Hallmark, American Gramaphone Records, Exceptional Artists, Narada Records, Steve Martin, Jim Brickman, Paul Winter and U.S. Fashion Design Week in Moscow, Russia.