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San Antonio, TX – Blue Clover, a versatile, highly creative On and Off-line Branding™ firm fusing strategic online and traditional marketing communications, has named Abigail “Abby” Shaver its executive assistant. This pioneering design firm focuses on merging traditional and interactive disciplines to maximize the brand relationship between the company and the customer. Blue Clover uniquely mixes electronic branding through award-winning websites, e-commerce, SEO and content manageable systems with traditional tools including name and logo development, public relations, direct mail and special events planning.

As an executive assistant, Shaver is responsible for the firm’s administrative duties such as filing and answering the phones, as well as all travel arrangements for management and staff. She serves as the personal assistant to the president, maintains general office duties and manages the office calendars. Shaver is also responsible for confidential and time-sensitive material, as well as office correspondence.

Prior to Blue Clover, she worked for Leading Edge Temp agency while attending school and was a camp counselor at Camp Capers of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. Previously, she worked as a temporary receptionist for the Law Offices of Peter Wolverton and the temporary personal secretary for Don Krause of Bayne, Snell, and Krause.

A cum laude graduate with high honors from the University of Incarnate Word, Shaver has a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and minor in accounting. She is currently pursuing her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics at the University of Incarnate Word.

San Antonio-based Blue Clover was established in 2003 by marketing experts and partners José B. Sena, Juan Barrera and Chris Gilbert.  The growing staff now includes two additional partners, Ryan Kelly and Jody Tidwell, and 17 full-time creative, technology and management professionals with extensive traditional and multicultural marketing, public relations and web-based communication experience from throughout the world.  In July 2007, the firm opened a new office in Atlanta to serve its southeast customers, hiring Tidwell and Jason Lewis as president and vice president of the southeast division.

This innovative talent and relentless drive has distinguished Blue Clover as an award-winning firm, including a place in PRINT Magazine’s 2006 Regional Design Annual (the most comprehensive competition annual in the design profession), San Antonio Business Journal’s Best Places to Work, San Antonio Business Journal’s Fast Track list for two years in a row; the Emerging Business Award from the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; and the San Antonio Business Journal’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award for José B. Sena, the company’s CEO and president.

Blue Clover’s past and present client list boasts more than 120 active local and national clients, including Arquitectonica (international architecture, interior design and planning firm); a website design project for Clear Channel Radio (owns and operates more than 1,200 radio stations in the United States); Cross & Company; Falcon International Bank ($665 million institution; named 2006 Top Earner by Independent Community Bankers of America); Terramark (leading Houston-based commercial and residential real estate development and home building, including Espada community near proposed Texas A&M campus in south San Antonio); Perico’s Mexican Cuisine; Time Warner Cable; Goodwill Industries; Southwest Mental Health Center; San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; TBG Partners (largest landscape architects and planning firm in Texas); Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Associates of South Texas; Seguin Economic Development Corporation; Galo Properties (one of the largest single-family lot developers in south central Texas);  Workforce Solutions (a workforce development network for employers and job seekers in the Rio Grande Valley); Oberthur Gaming Technologies (one of the world’s leading providers of lottery scratch off games; now known as MDI); Yantis Company ($100 million construction company; listed as one of the “Top 50 Private Companies” in San Antonio); The University of Texas at San Antonio; and USAA.

More information on Blue Clover is available at (210) 223-5409, www.blueclover.com or info@blueclover.com.