{"id":1800,"date":"2019-04-26T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:00","slug":"wade-swormstedt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wade-swormstedt\/","title":{"rendered":"Wade Swormstedt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ember2906\" class=\"pv-profile-section-pager ember-view\">\n<section id=\"experience-section\" class=\"pv-profile-section experience-section ember-view\">\n<div id=\"ember2909\" class=\"pv-entity__position-group-pager pv-profile-section__list-item ember-view\">\n<div class=\"display-flex justify-space-between full-width\">\n<div class=\"pv-entity__company-details-v2\">\n<div class=\"pv-entity__company-summary-info-v2\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wade-Swormstedt-sq-e1600192593609.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1801 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wade-Swormstedt-sq-e1600192593609.png\" alt=\"wade-swormstedt\" width=\"167\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>Wade Swormstedt was born to David Reid Swormstedt, Jr, and Winifred Bronson Swormstedt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pv-entity__secondary-title t-14 t-black--light t-normal\">He attended Boston University for two years (1978-1980) where he graduated with a BS in Journalism. Wade p<span class=\"activities-societies\">layed #8 for BU rugby club that was 17-1-1 in his senior year, with triumphs in the 1980 Mardi Gras and Beanpot tournaments. Neiman-Marcus had the team model their rugby shirts and gave the team a keg of beer inside their store as payment.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ember2944\" class=\"pv-entity__extra-details ember-view\">\n<p class=\"pv-entity__description t-14 t-black--light t-normal mt4\">After Boston University, Wade interned at the Cambridge Chronicle newspaper and worked for the Jasper County (South Carolina) News for a 1 year, before returning to Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wade began working at the family-owned ST Media Group in June 1981, and spent the next 34 years there. Wade became the editor and eventual publisher of Signs of the Times Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Wade was the Executive Director of the Foundation for the Advancement of the Sign Industry (FASI) before retiring in January 2019. <span class=\"background-details\"><span class=\"lt-line-clamp__raw-line\">FASI is an advocate for the societal benefits of on-premise signage for society. It works with associations, universities, trade publications and research organizations to promote the efforts within the on-premise sign industry.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wade Swormstedt was born to David Reid Swormstedt, Jr, and Winifred Bronson Swormstedt. He attended Boston University for two years (1978-1980) where he graduated with a BS in Journalism. Wade played #8 for BU rugby club that was 17-1-1 in his senior year, with triumphs in the 1980 Mardi Gras and Beanpot tournaments. Neiman-Marcus had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}