Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 7, 2003
MIKE GAST, Director of Communications for Kampgrounds of America,
Inc., joined the company in May 2001 after more than 22 years in
the newspaper industry. He started his journalism career at the
Knight-Ridder owned Aberdeen American News in Aberdeen, South
Dakota. He came to Billings, Montana, in 1987 and served as night
city editor, city editor and managing editor of the Billings
Gazette before moving to Corvallis, Oregon, to be the editor-in-
chief of the Corvallis Gazette-Times in 1996. He returned to
Billings in 1998 to head the Circulation Department at the
Billings Gazette. He created and headed the Gazette's Marketing
Department in 1999 until leaving the paper in 2001. His duties at
Kampgrounds of America as Communications Director include guiding
and editing KOA publications, public relations, event planning
and KOA's new Internet Service Provider, KOA Konnect. Profile
America?
Mr. Gast: Kampgrounds of America is a privately owned, franchised
system of nearly 500 campgrounds in the United
