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The year 2025 marks my 46th year at the helm of CMG Worldwide. I, Mark Roesler, am proud to serve as the Founder of CMG and I have continuously served as its Chairman and CEO. Through our early years of defending Norman Rockwell’s famous artwork, during America’s bicentennial, I witnessed the struggles that families of deceased celebrities would face in safeguarding their loved ones’ names and likenesses after their death. To that end, I made it my personal mission to protect these valuable intellectual property rights. Today, I am humbled to be credited with having been the driving force in establishing the legal framework that protects the rights of deceased celebrities. Indeed, it is with great pride to say that I have represented over 1,700 of the world’s most famous entertainment, sports, historical, and music icons in various legal and marketing capacities over the course of our history.
At CMG, our clients come first, and we work diligently to ensure that their legacies are ingrained in our history. CMG is a unique agency combining a robust team of intellectual property attorneys, marketing, brand, and social media experts, and financial analysts, who all have a keen eye for celebrity rights and brand management. Our team is composed of talented individuals hailing from all corners of the world – from our offices in Nashville, Miami, Indianapolis, and our headquarters in Beverly Hills, we all serve with one comprehensive goal in mind – building and supporting our clients’ valuable intellectual property rights. The programs we create reflect the international communities and cultures in which we operate.
As we all move into this new decade, we could not be more optimistic about the opportunities available to our clients. With a reverence of those who have come before us, CMG has always looked towards the future to further our mission. From endorsements, licensing, speaking engagements, IP consulting and valuation, and now, as one of the leading companies with respect to digital humans, CMG is positioned to meet the challenges that the new decade presents. Through the early inception of the Internet in the 90’s to today’s XR/AR technological advancements, CMG is at the forefront of every technological revolution to support our clients’ branding initiatives. Of course, new technologies always raise new and exciting challenges both in a legal capacity as well as developing unique and unprecedented opportunities. However, as technology continues to transform at an increasingly rapid rate, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the way personalities interact with our world. To that objective, we have expanded our extended reality company, Worldwide XR, which is quickly paving the path in this field to create unparalleled opportunities, bringing the past into the future.
Today I could not be more proud to say we represent hundreds of incredible figures. Our clients are trailblazers; they are civil rights leaders and they are history makers. They are rebels, pioneers, groundbreakers, but most of all, they are icons. It is with great honor and privilege to ensure these legacies not only live on, but thrive, prosper, and inspire for generations to come.
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Captain Shults’ message resonates throughout the corporate culture and beyond. As Captain Shults notes, “to those who are given much, much will be required.” Indeed, on April 17, 2018, much was required of Captain Shults when she safely landed the severely crippled Southwest Airlines flight 1380 and helped save the lives of 148 individuals. But what created the calm confidence and nerves of steel to lead her crew and passengers to safety? Through her captivating story as one of the first female Navy F/A-18 fighter pilots to her successful career in aviation at Southwest Airlines, Captain Shults demonstrates the building blocks necessary for successful leadership — fierce determination, teamwork, and the cultivation of strong habits. “Habits on a good day” Shults instills, “become instinct on a bad day. Habits when you are not under pressure become a reaction when in crisis.” It was through these habits and her unwavering persistence that Tammie Jo was able to manage such a crisis under severe pressure. Captain Shults brings a combination of her military training with the skills learned from her professional aviation career to business and faith based communities. For each event, Tammie Jo comes prepared to impart her life experience and the lessons acquired along the way to set your organization’s vision soaring.
Captain Shults has faced many challenges. From being recognized as a serious candidate for the military as a female to becoming a flight instructor, she often faced many closed doors. Yet, through her journey, Tammie Jo learned to discern when “no” was an answer and when it was an opinion. Growing up in rural New Mexico, Tammie Jo learned to “dream without fences;” and indeed, Tammie Jo knew there was a boundless sky waiting for her to take flight. Despite the resistance and adversity she faced along the way, Tammie Jo was determined to pursue her dream of becoming a pilot — a dream that would place her in the right place at the right time. “My dream of flying was only the starting pistol that launched me down the path of my life,” Captain Shults notes. “It was the race that lay before me, the years of hard work without any guarantee of success, that put me in the right place at the right time.” Through her story, Captain Shults demonstrates to organizations how to transform adversity into strength, and strength into the courage necessary to take action.