Greg Upah was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He draws from a wealth of sales and presentation experiences from his careers in academia, advertising, and financial services. He was an associate research director and member of the new business team at Young & Rubicam Advertising, New York for seven years. During his career as the director of Institutional Marketing for the asset management group at Merrill Lynch, he successfully established relationships with major corporations and high-net-worth individuals around the globe. Prior to his careers in advertising and investment management, he was a marketing professor at Virginia Tech and an adjunct associate professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, and has a Ph.D in marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of Marketing. He is currently actively involved in helping organizations improve their client presentation capabilities. He is married and has two grown children and three dogs. He lives in Montgomery, Texas.