An expert in providing advertising specialties with a career that spans over 20 years, Dawn is a promotion marketing specialist to corporate clients in business-to-business and business-to-consumer environments. Dawn has had careers in advertising and marketing since 1988 – as an out of home advertising buyer for the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune and then as a customer service manager and advertising sales director with two leading promotion and marketing firms. Dawn is a strategic fundraising developer and event planner who has managed events for large and small organizations. She is also experienced in the setup of new operations with full responsibility for marketing, creative, production and vendor relations. A creative, entrepreneurial thinker, Dawn is dedicated to supporting her clients' growth objectives.

Daybreak Marketing Services was started in a spare bedroom in Dawn’s home in November 1998, after the promotion marketing firm she was employed by began to experience financial strain and her client’s events and promotions were at risk. Since then, the company has grown and now includes a vice president of sales & marketing, three senior account managers and a part-time office administrator. Clients include George Harms Construction; Georgian Court University; radio stations 94.3 The Point, 105.7 The Hawk, and WOBM AM & FM; Meridian/Jersey Shore Breast Center; Brookdale Community College; Century 21 Realty; Geese Police; Howell Senior Center; Deutsche Bank; Toms River South High School; South Hills (MT) Evangelical Center and many others. An article about Dawn and Daybreak Marketing Services appeared in the On The Run section of the Asbury Park Press on December 24, 2003.

An active volunteer, Dawn is involved in many community and business organizations. She is in the first year (of a two-year term) as President for the Monmouth-Ocean chapter of New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners, She served two terms as President-Elect and also Vice President of Marketing. Her chapter ranks #2 in the State for membership and #1 in recruitment. Dawn, along with a co-chair in 2005, brought the holiday auction to new financial heights, making the most money in the history of the chapter. Currently, she volunteers in areas of need and fills open positions and has volunteered to with the 2006 Conference as a Workshop Ambassador and State Member Retention Chair. Just recently, Dawn and a committee has agreed to chair the 2008 NJAWBO (State’s) Annual Conference. Dawn is also acting Vice President of Marketing and Advertising Manager for NAWBO - Central Jersey Chapter.

Dawn is currently a member of the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), US Women’s Chamber of Commerce, NJ State Chamber (associate member), Howell Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO), National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Howell Optimist Club, Founding Member of the Jackson Optimist Club, Wachovia Corporation Small Business Advisory Board and Church of the Master Administrative Council. Dawn is also past president of the Howell Optimist Club, an international civic organization that “brings out the best in kids.” She is a charter and founding member of the Jackson Optimist Club. Dawn is a former member of the board of directors for MCVR (Monmouth Center for Vocational Rehabilitation) and a founding member of the MCVR Foundation as secretary of the Board. Dawn is a former Jackson Planning Board and Environmental Commission member, and resident member of the Economic Development Committee. She is a Food Pantry volunteer for the Jackson Women of Today, Howell Senior Citizens Center and Just in Thyme Senior Cupboard, Howell Alliance for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Prevention, and she is finance and stewardship Chair for the Administrative Council for Church of the Master and has headed two, successful stewardship campaigns and a building fund campaign.

An award winner, Dawn was a finalist in the Enterprising Women of the Year in 2007. She was named “Businesswoman of the Year” by the Monmouth-Ocean chapter of New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners for 2006, and received the “Teal Heart Service Award” in 2005 from the Monmouth/Ocean Chapter of NJAWBO for consistently going above and beyond her responsibilities for the organization. Dawn accepted the “Community Service” award from the Central Jersey chapter of National Association of Women Business Owners in 2006. Dawn was an ATHENA award nominee in 2007 and in 2005. Daybreak Marketing was named “Business of the Year” in 2004 by the Howell Chamber of Commerce. As president of the Howell Optimist Club, Dawn achieved Double Distinguished President status in 2002. (In the club’s 15-year history, this level of success was never achieved by another president, nor has it been achieved since. She met specific criteria in areas of membership growth and club building.) In 1996, Dawn received the Income Development Award from the American Cancer Society Monmouth Unit for chairing “Relay for Life” and raising the most money in the country ($193,000.00). Dawn recruits many new (women business owner) members into the NJAWBO and NAWBO-CJ organizations and was recognized by NAWBO-CJ during their 2004 membership drive. Additionally, she has received several citations for volunteer work from the Howell Senior Center, Howell Alliance for the Prevention of Drug & Alcohol Abuse, 30th Legislative District and Jackson Township Mayor & Committee. She was a nominee for the Russ Berrie Foundation at Ramapo College Un-Sung Hero, as well as the Governor’s Council on Volunteerism and the Greater Women of New Jersey (from Greater Media newspapers).

Dawn grew up in central New Jersey and now resides in Jackson, NJ with her husband Ken Nagy (whom she met at work at the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune). She has three children – Anthony, 24 (stationed in San Francisco with the U.S. Coast Guard), Christopher, 21 (who lives on his own, works full-time and is in his last year of night school machinist’s certification) and Rebecca, 15, (who is a gifted and talented student at Toms River East High School) and two golden retrievers – Penny and Tucker. When Dawn isn’t camping and RV’ing across the country in her motor home, she enjoys reading, watching Seinfeld re-runs and spending time with family and friends.