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R. A. R. Clouston, or Bob as he is known to his family and friends, is a recently retired business executive with forty years' experience in general management, sales and marketing. Prior to his retirement, he was President and Chief Customer Officer of Sargento Foods Inc., a leading marketer of natural cheeses based in Wisconsin with net sales of over $1 billion. Mr. Clouston was born in Montreal and has both U.S. and Canadian citizenships. He began his career at General Foods in Toronto and he subsequently spent 18 years with Warner Lambert in both Canada and the U.S. Prior to joining Sargento he was General Manager of ConAgra Frozen Foods retail business, and President and CEO of Leaf Confections, now a division of Hershey Foods.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Montreal's McGill University, and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario. In 1986, he was selected by Advertising Age magazine as one of "100 Best and Brightest Young Clients in Advertising." He has also been a guest lecturer at several graduate business schools in the United States and Canada; and in 2009, he was the keynote speaker at the annual convention of the International Listening Association, where he was recognized as the ILA Business Listener of the Year. He is a Level 2 member of the Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance, and holds a 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do karate.
Mr. Clouston has been writing all his life, both as a result of his profession and his passion. From his early days as an MBA student, to his more recent roles as a senior corporate executive, his professional life has involved extensive business writing, media interviews and public speaking. Meanwhile, in his "spare" time, he has written and self-published five novels. In 2004, he wrote and published a two-volume, epic novel titled, Where Freedom Reigns. It is a work of commercial fiction about a second American civil war, involving devastating tank battles on the high plains of Colorado. A year later, the books were praised by the then Commanding Officer of the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq who asked for copies to be sent to Baghdad for his staff. Mr. Clouston's third novel, The Tempest's Roar, is a work of speculative fiction about the whales and dolphins who rule the Seven Seas and the odyssey of a white dolphin named Apollo whose destiny it is to save whalekind from man's destruction of the oceans. The book has received wide acclaim among leading figures in ocean conservation. His two newest novels, The Covenant Within, and No Greater Evil, are high-concept thrillers that take the reader into the shadowy world that lies beyond the border between good and evil. All of his books are available in both print and electronic versions at amazon.com and other leading on-line book sellers.
Mr. Clouston is married with four children and four grandchildren. He and his wife, Geraldine J. Clouston, and their purebred Alaskan Malamute, Tikani, currently reside in Wisconsin. Mrs. Clouston is President and CEO of indieBRAG, LLC a web-based company whose mission is to recognize excellence on the part of self-published or "indie" authors of both print and digital books. Its website can be found at www.bragmedallion.com. |
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