Jamie Rice stays ahead of the game.

With 33 years in the advertising business, the chief strategy officer at Baltimore-based Carton Donofrio Partners helped to expand the firm to a national level. In a world where many professionals climb the career ladder jumping from office to office, Rice finds ways to make his firm the best it can be. Working with clients like the National Association of Realtors, Walden University and T. Rowe Price, this true-blue graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill oversees the development and implementation of brand strategies for all agency clients.