Lori Strum, Senior Media Planner/Buyer
Lori brings 17 years of solid marketing and media experience to our SA clients. An agricultural marketing expert, Lori is an active member of the National Agri-Marketers Association (NAMA) and was recently honored with NAMA’s prestigious Horizon Award for her leadership and mentoring in the agri-marketing industry. She has worked on behalf of nearly 40 agricultural-related firms including the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Kemin Industries, Wilmar Manufacturing, Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers, World Pork Expo, National Pork Board, John Deere Credit, and Pioneer Hi-Bred. Associated with Strategic America for five years now, Lori was previously a client strategist, serving high-end and growth clients for The Des Moines Register’s advertising department. She has held key media positions with three other Des Moines-area integrated marketing firms, working for ag clients but also in the categories of communications, education, health care, insurance and economic development. She worked on the client side for seven years as marketing assistant with DeKalb Plant Genetics as well. Lori hails from Prairie City, Iowa and earned her Associate’s of Business degrees in Computer Programming and Accounting at AIB College of Business in Des Moines before earning a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Rockford College.
B.S., Business Administration, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois