Dick Grove

DICK GROVE is the CEO and founder of the long-running INK Inc. Public Relations.

Over his 50+ year career, Dick has managed the gamut of business and consumer communications from financial and investment relations, high-tech campaigns and products, crisis management, and the vagaries of the entertainment world. He’s served in the MarCom C-Suite with companies like Itel Corporation, GE Capital and IT&T as well as a V.P. with industry powerhouse Burson-Marsteller.

In 1997, the Kansas City-based Grove launched INK which is notable for being one of the first to utilize a remote PR team as well as implementing a very unique “Pay for Performance” client model – both of which continue today.

Grove recently released his first book titled, “It’s the Media, Stupid: PR without the BS.” In it, he sheds a light on the PR industry for publicists, entrepreneurs and the general public.