John J. Ordover
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John J. Ordover is the founder and CEO of JJO MARKETING, the marketing consultantancy best known for the recent Marryourdaughter.com media campaign. Marry Our Daughter called for the repeal of United States laws that allow parents to marry their daughters off as young as 13. The website got 70 Million hits and stories on the site and the topic appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek and syndicated columns as well as on 25 different radio shows, multiple podcasts and Ordover himself made a rare series of appearances to discuss the topic on CNN, CBS and FOX as well as other TV outlets.
Their public involvement in shaping the Marry Our Daugthter media blitz is unusual for the company as most of JJO Marketing's work is done behind the scenes; while they are apparently based out of New York, their only known address is via a well-known mail forwarding service located at 93 S. Jackson Street #74393 Seattle, Washington 98104-2818. JJO Marketing specializes in coming in with fresh eyes and giving that last little twist to a project that puts it over the top. JJO M's motto is "You've never heard of us, your clients never will." Chances are you have read, watched or own something they have had a hand in marketing.
Ordover has previously been an editor at Pocket Books responsible for overseeing the licensed novels of the Star Trek franchise. He is the co-creator of such spinoff series as Star Trek: New Frontier (with writer Peter David), and Star Trek: Challenger (with Diane Carey).
According to Peter David, the basic concept for New Frontier was Ordover's, as was the notion of using several already existing characters, with David having fleshed out the concept and created the original characters.[1]
With David Mack, Ordover wrote the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Starship Down". The two have story credit on "It's Only a Paper Moon", which was written as a teleplay by Ronald D. Moore.
Ordover is also an active nudist, the founder of Clothing Optional Dinners, a dining club in New York City for nudists.[2] On July 11, 2007, Ordover launched a nude dinner cruise from Sheepshead Bay, New York.[3]
Ordover created a web site http://marryourdaughter.org/ in September 2007 as a hoax to bring attention to the discrepancy between age of consent laws and marriage law.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ PeterDavid.net: WHAT'CHA WANNA KNOW?
- ^ Macsai, Gwen (2005-08-13). Naked Dining in Manhattan. Weekend Edition. National Public Radio. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
- ^ NudistDay.com on Nude Cruise. CODinners. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
- ^ The Bride Buyers. CODinners. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
