MARTIN A. BERG, Director of Marketing and Communications

Martin Berg became CIC Director of Marketing and Communications in 2001. His more than 25 years of nonprofit public relations/marketing experience began in 1979 with the former St. Anne's Hospital on Chicago's West Side and continued with his time as executive director of the North-Pulaski Chamber of Commerce in the mid-1980s. From 1988 to 2000 he was Director of Communications, Member Services and Retail Development for the Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations (CANDO), where he worked with that citywide coalition to improve Chicago neighborhood retail and industrial areas. In 2003 Marty was appointed Adjunct Instructor in Nonprofit Marketing for the online Certificate in Nonprofit Management program of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Marty was born and raised in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. After spending six years in the Franciscan seminary system in Oak Brook and Quincy, Illinois, he received his B.A. in psychology from Saint Louis University and studied in the Masters program at the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a member of the Publicity Club of Chicago,  Public Relations Society of America, American Marketing Association, Independent Writers of Chicago and the Chicago Newspaper Guild.

His interests include trains, baseball, the English language, geography, choral singing, and classical and Russian Orthodox music. He lives in Oak Park with his wife, hypnotherapist Gina Orlando.