Experience

Richard R. Binkele is a seasoned writer/editor with 19+ years of corporate experience. He created direct marketing and advertising pieces, training and compliance manuals, and corporate newsletters for Dean Witter (now Morgan Stanley), an international financial services corporation. As editor for the company's employee magazine serving 35,000 readers, he has covered stories from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange and the first bombing of the World Trade Center. 

As a compliance officer responsible for reviewing Marketing & Advertising for two major Wall Street firms, he excelled in helping sales professionals make their marketing materials compelling and effective.

After Wall Street and a stint as an antique dealer, he returned to school for a masters degree at Manhattanville College where he served for two years as editor-in-chief of the acclaimed literary journal Inkwell.

More recently he has worked as a freelancer creating a manual and a newsletter for a financial advisory firm, contributing articles to Community Media on Hudson, and providing marketing support for the movie committee of the Tarrytown Music Hall. Mr. Binkele has also worked with a local website developer as a copywriter on a number of websites, creating revenue-generating SEO copy.