Key Hires in Florida and California Support Growth at Ag Marketing Leader

Moxxy Marketing announced the addition of key employees in California and Florida: Ralf Bennett, Account Director; and Candy Rauber, Art Director.

“As our clients adapt to their changing business environments—whether due to supply chain issues or other challenges and opportunities resulting from the pandemic—their needs for marketing support have increased. We’ve expanded our teams, and continue to actively recruit and hire in Florida and California, so we can keep providing the top-quality work and service we’ve built our reputation on,” said Karen Nardozza, President & CEO at Moxxy.

Geographically, while Moxxy had always been serving clients nationwide, in recent years growth increased substantially from companies on the East Coast, especially in Georgia and Florida. To assure top service and attention, and engage in the communities where clients are based, Nardozza moved to Miami and established a team in Florida to augment the agency’s strong West Coast presence.

Ralf Bennett joined Moxxy as Account Director, bringing his extensive background in branding, strategy, content development and creative implementation in support of Moxxy’s West Coast clients from his base in Sacramento. “I’m excited to bring my experience from large and boutique agencies, and at in-house marketing departments for some of the most recognized global brands, to Moxxy and our food and beverage clients,” Bennett said. “This role is perfect for me, and I’m excited to reconnect with friends from Salinas, where I lived as a kid, as well as foster new relationships with clients and industry peers in the fresh food space.”

After first working with Moxxy on a contract basis, Candy Rauber, based in Orlando, joined the Florida team full time as Art Director. She is an award-winning creative problem solver and designer with a proven track record of executing results-driven strategies and breakthrough design. “I had been freelancing for Moxxy, enjoying the work and the team; I realized they’re my kind of people, and I’d like to work at Moxxy full time,” said Rauber.

“We recently asked all the Moxxers ‘What makes Moxxy special?’” Nardozza continued, “Everybody started by talking about their teammates, the camaraderie, focus and experience, and how that enables us to do great work for our clients. I’m so proud to add Ralf and Candy to our team. They fit right in!”

Founded in 2007 in Salinas, where Moxxy established itself as a full-service, premier provider of marketing strategy, brand development, packaging design, website design, PR, advertising, and other marketing services for the grower-shipper community, the past five years brought Moxxy opportunities to expand its client base to include more food and beverage processors, along with ag services and ag tech companies.

In the fall of 2019, when Moxxy converted to a virtual environment to better serve its clients across the USA, nobody could have predicted what the next two years would bring. From Covid to supply chain disruptions to the great resignation, every month brought a new challenge.

“We were fortunate our remote systems were already in place when the government started shutting down offices and business,” recalls Nardozza. “As our clients scrambled to respond to changing circumstances, such as the immediate loss of foodservice business, we were nimble and well-positioned to help them respond to new challenges and opportunities.”