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Batavia Native Assumes VP Role With 4 Local Companies.

By Howard B. Owens

Press release

Frank Collins, better known as Jimi Jamm from his 2 decades in the radio & music industry, has been elevated to Vice President of Marketing for Batavia-based Grease Lightning, Lightning Media, Lightning Shine & Johnny Pag Motorcycles U.S.A. He will report to company CEO’s Ben & Jackie Thompson.

Grease Lightning operates 18 auto repair shops in NY & Maine, including 2 in Batavia. Lightning Media provides marketing and consultation within the auto repair industries. Lightning Shine features 4 lines of polish and protection for vehicles of all kinds. Johnny Pag Motorcycles are sold worldwide and distributed for the USA and Caribbean locally.

Collins is a 1987 graduate of Notre Dame High School, was a recording artist for Buffalo, NY’s Amherst Records and enjoyed an award winning radio career that included programming what was Clear Channel Broadcasting’s second largest group of stations in Poughkeepsie, NY. He also worked for Howard Rosen Promotion, one of the leading independent music promoters in the. U.S. He can currently be heard locally as Jimi Jamm on WCJW.

(For questions and further information, you can contact Director of Marketing Jimi “Jamm” Collins at 631-704-9711 or jimi@premiumlube.net.)

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