Dawn M. Nakash, MASI, CSMC is Chief Operating and Administrative Officer of Daybreak Marketing Services, LLC, an NC HUB (Historically Underutilized Business). Daybreak Marketing is a registered vendor with New York’s Statewide System.  Daybreak Marketing is the exclusive promotional products distributor for a country-wide physician’s buying group and holds a preferred vendor status with many large corporations.  In addition to running her own business, Dawn is an active volunteer in the local community, recognized for her dedication and contributions to many local organizations. Dawn's business, Daybreak Marketing Services, was established in 1998.

An expert in providing advertising specialties with a career that spans over 20 years, Dawn is a promotion marketing specialist to corporate clients in business-to-business and business-to-consumer environments.  Dawn has had careers in advertising and marketing since 1988 – as an out of home advertising buyer for the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune and then as a Customer Service Manager and Advertising Sales Director with two leading promotion and marketing firms.  

Daybreak Marketing Services was started in a spare bedroom in Dawn’s home in November 1998, after the promotion marketing firm she was employed by began to experience financial strain and her client’s events and promotions were at risk.  Since then, the company has grown and now includes a vice president of sales & marketing, six senior account managers and a part-time office administrator. Clients include George Harms Construction; Georgian Court University; Reaves Asset Management, Wake Forest Downtown, Town of Wake Forest, Pierce Group Benefits and many others. 

An active volunteer, Dawn is involved in many community and business organizations. She was a two term President for the Monmouth-Ocean chapter of New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners, where she served two terms as President-Elect and also Vice President of Marketing.  Dawn, along with a co-chair in 2005, brought the holiday auction to new financial heights, making the most money in the history of the chapter.  Dawn also held Board positions with NAWBO - Central Jersey Chapter (VP of Marketing and Advertising Manager).

Dawn is currently a member of the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI) and received her MASI (Master of Advertising Specialty Information. She is a Certified Social Media Consultant (CSMC).  She currently holds memberships in Howell, NJ Optimist Club, National Association of Professional Women (NAPW), Wake Forest, NC Optimist Club.  Dawn is a Notary Public, commissioned by the State of North Carolina.

Dawn is a Board member for Wake Forest Downtown, Inc. and currently serves as board vice chair and chair of the Events Committee (chairing every Downtown event: Dirt Day, Charity Car Show, Lighting of Wake Forest and Christmas Parade).  As chair of the Wake Forest, NC Downtown Charity Car Show committee, Dawn is also the Social Media Editor.  Dawn is currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the Wake Forest, NC Optimist Club, a position she has held since 2012.  Dawn was a 2016 appointed member of the Steering Committee for the Wake Forest Renaissance Plan update. She has served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Wake Forest United Methodist Church (two consecutive 3-year terms).  Dawn is the President of the Silo Glen Property Owners Association.  Dawn is a homework tutor at Wake Forest Boys & Girls Club. Dawn is a past president of the Howell, NJ Chamber of Commerce (2001-2003) and is a member of the Council of Past President’s.  She also serves on the fundraising committee for the Georgian Court University Scholarship Fund and Howell, NJ Alliance for the Prevention of Drug & Alcohol Abuse. She is a former Ambassador for the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce. Dawn is also past president of the Howell, NJ Optimist Club, an international civic organization that “brings out the best in kids.”  She is a charter and founding member of the Jackson, NJ Optimist Club.  Dawn is a former Jackson, NJ Planning Board and Environmental Commission member, and resident member of the Economic Development Committee. 

An award winner, in 2016, Dawn was awarded the Wake Forest Citizen of the Year and was chosen to be honored by Emerging Women NC as “the light and leadership style that illuminates the way for other women”.  Dawn was voted Club Woman of the Year in 2016 from the membership of Wake Forest Woman’s Club. The Wake Forest Woman’s Club awarded the Alline Johnson Wiggins award to Dawn in 2015 and the Helen Saintsing Johnston award in 2013.  Dawn was named Ambassador of the Month for September 2012 and August 2013 for the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce.  She was named the Optimist of the Year in 2012 by the Wake Forest Optimist Club. Her finest accomplishment comes from being named NJBIZ’s 2008 New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business. She was also awarded the 2008 National Association of Women Business Owners – Central Jersey chapter Businesswoman of the Year.  Dawn was a finalist in the Enterprising Women of the Year in 2007.  She was named “Businesswoman of the Year” by the Monmouth-Ocean chapter of New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners for 2006, and received the “Teal Heart Service Award” in 2005 from the Monmouth/Ocean Chapter of NJAWBO for consistently going above and beyond her responsibilities for the organization. Dawn accepted the “Community Service” award from the Central Jersey chapter of National Association of Women Business Owners in 2006.  Dawn was an ATHENA award nominee in 2007 and in 2005.  Daybreak Marketing was named “Business of the Year” in 2004 by the Howell Chamber of Commerce. As president of the Howell Optimist Club, Dawn achieved Double Distinguished President status in 2002. (In the club’s 25-year history, this level of success was never achieved by another president, nor has it been achieved since.  She met specific criteria in areas of membership growth and club building.)   

Dawn grew up in central New Jersey and now resides in Wake Forest, NC with her husband Ken Nagy.  She has three children – Anthony, 36 (stationed in San Francisco, CA with the U.S. Coast Guard and married to Amber), Christopher, 33 (works for Naval Air Systems Command at the Super Base Maguire-Fort Dix-Lakehurst, NJ) and Rebecca, 27 (a graduate from NC State and working full-time for NCSU in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering department) and golden retriever rescue, Daisy.  Dawn enjoys reading, with her Wine, Women and Words book club, watching Seinfeld, Friends, The Office and Everybody Loves Raymond re-runs and spending time with family and friends, old and new. She volunteers with Women on Target, a shooting and safety clinic for women, sponsored by the NRA, of which she is a member.

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Email:  dawn@daybreakmarketing.com

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