Our Founders

Mr. McHugh is a marketer and a producer. He started McQ Marketing Group to help individuals grow their businesses and personal brand – and to help companies that have been taken advantage of by other marketing and advertising companies.
 

He has worked in the media, marketing and advertising sectors for decades. His experience includes being a digital marketing manager at two large New York healthcare systems, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare and Summit Health Westmed Medical Group.

 

Mr. McHugh was part of the team of producers that launched the Fox Business Network, and he produced for the top-rated cable television news network in the United States, Fox News Channel. He has also served as a communications director for a democratic New York State lawmaker.

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In New York, he produced the evening news for the News 12 television networks. His regional and local television producing experience includes working at Regional News Network in New York, as well as Illinois ABC affiliate WSIL-TV. 

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Before he moved over to producing, he worked on the production and post production end of the media industry at ABC and PBS affiliates in the Midwest.

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At the age of 16, McHugh started his media career as an intern at Springfield, Illinois AM radio station WMAY. That led to his first job in radio, while still in high school, working at radio stations Oldies 96.7 and WCVS-AM. He continued his career in radio, working at full service news/talk/classic country station KMHL-AM, classic rock station WYMG, news/talk station WTAX, and oldies FM station Cool 101.9.