Thomas Riley and Debora McCartney Riley offer a combined 40 years of experience in the Natural Products industry.
With expertise in sales consulting; marketing; product development; retail management; brand messaging; copywriting;
packaging and visuals; merchandising and promotions, they have worked with some of the best-known brands in the
industry, and have promoted, packaged, pitched, persuaded, plugged … and put millions of dollars worth of natural
products onto the shelves of many of the East Coast’s top natural product retailers and into the hands and homes of
some of the country’s most influential consumers.

With Riley McCartney Associates and their Life of Riley Marketing … Life of Riley Street Team … Brand Creatives …
Natpreneur … and new Flyers for Buyers divisions, they continue to work with some of the hottest – and coolest – new
and established natural products on the market, forging important relationships and opening distribution channels in
New York Metro and the other main metro markets along the East Coast, including Boston, Philly, D.C., Atlanta and their
newest corporate outpost, the “Magic City” of Miami.

“Riley and Deb” have been regular attendees and exhibitors at the various national and regional natural product,
specialty food and health & beauty expos and shows for many years, including Expo East, Expo West, the Fancy Food Show
and HBA Global, on behalf of manufacturers, distributors, and retail stores alike, as well as their own sales and
marketing consulting firm, Riley McCartney Associates.

Thomas Riley – or “Riley,” as he is known by friends and associates – is a sought-after sales and marketing strategy
consultant with a winning way, a talent for turning a phrase, and a sensibility for successful strategies. Riley first fanned
his passion for the power of words and his penchant for helping people as a prolific songwriter, performer,  promoter and MC,
working with some of Manhattan’s preeminent clubs of the ’80s, and he is still well known in songwriting circles today.

Falling in love with the fast-growing “foodie” end of the business in the ’90s, he worked his way up through the ranks in
the hospitality industry with Hilton Hotels Corporation. Learning a lot about, loving and living the then-trending “natural”
lifestyle, he ended up as part owner and Operations Manager of one of New York Metro’s oldest and most-loved health
food stores, originally founded by the DeBoles pasta people. And, from there, he worked as part of the team that took
local New York City distributor Island Natural from a small natural products distributor to one of the largest in the
New York metropolitan area, working with all the most well-known Food & Beverage, Health & Beauty and Supplement
natural brands in the industry and many of the top natural and conventional retailers on the East Coast.

Today, the New York City- and now also Miami-based veteran natural products specialist touts experience and expertise
in all of the industry’s categories, and serves as Founder and President of Riley McCartney Associates, overseeing its
Life of Riley Marketing and NatPreneur Consulting divisions, as well as the new FlyersForBuyers.com interactive platform.

Debora McCartney Riley has a broad background in marketing, advertising, publications and public relations. She
started out as a writer and managing editor for New York’s Nightlife magazine in the ’80s, reviewing and promoting
many of New York Metro’s top clubs and restaurants.

A talented writer, voice-over artist and “people person,” Deb was a “natural” at promoting people, products, places and
publications, and she then spent the next 10 years as an account executive and vice president for agencies in both New
York City and South Florida, as well as a partner in her own boutique firm, specializing in marketing communication,
copywriting and graphics, advertising and promotions, and representing such companies as
HBO, Condé Nast, Marriott, Hilton and Disney.

She then served on the corporate side as a Marketing Communications Director and Advertising / Public Relations
Director for New York-based international pioneering natural / supplement brands Twinlab and Nature’s Answer,
respectively. Debora now continues to put her agency and corporate marketing expertise to work as a natural products
marketing consultant, serving as Vice President and Director of Marketing and Operations for
all Riley McCartney Associates’ activities.