Mark Riley
Founder & Authorized Representative
Founder of Great Breads Studio — a New York studio for brand identity, websites, and operating systems, with a federal contracting practice for state, local, and federal agencies. Built across Harlem, Atlanta, and Medellín.
A studio for the founders, agencies, and institutions building the brands that intend to last.
Great Breads began in Harlem in 2006 as a studio for the brands that wanted to be built like furniture — slowly, deliberately, to last. The standard hasn't moved since.
Today the studio operates across New York, Atlanta, and Medellín, serving founders launching identity-led apparel, grooming, skincare, food, and culture brands; agencies that need a partner who can hold the register their work demands; state, local, and federal agencies through Great Breads Government Solutions; and veteran entrepreneurs and small business owners through a structured advisory practice operating under the VA VR&E program.
Six core competencies live under one house: strategic business development, brand strategy & identity, digital platforms & web, operations + automation + AI, marketing + advertising + content, and vendor + partnership sourcing. One accountable interface. Senior-level delivery on every engagement.
Every studio is the sum of the disciplines its founder accumulated on the way in.
Morehouse College — B.A. Political Science. Senior thesis applied R and RStudio to political datasets — the first formal pairing of analytical rigor with the humanities that still runs through how the studio frames every engagement.
Study abroad in Ireland (Peace Studies), Israel (Cultural & Business Leadership), and six months on Spanish immersion sabbatical in Medellín — the foundation of the studio's cross-market fluency, and the reason a portion of the studio's craft work is still produced from Medellín today.
Garden State Honda. Fulton County District Attorney's Office. The Philos Project. Goldman Sachs Global Surveillance — SQL-based monitoring of two hundred-plus financial transactions per shift in a regulated, high-accountability environment. Asbury Automotive Group's Nalley Lexus Roswell and Nalley BMW Atlanta — Top 3 producer across two luxury brands, twice Salesperson of the Month, owner of the Riley Checkout Process that lifted team productivity twenty percent.
Sales discipline. Institutional documentation. Regulatory rigor. Multi-market fluency. Multicultural depth. Six disciplines, accumulated deliberately. The studio's operating system is built on all of them.
“Brands should be built like furniture. Slowly. Deliberately. To last.”
How the studio actually operates.
Every engagement begins with the lead form. No spec work. No scope before discovery. We take a small number of clients per year because the standard requires it.
The ninety-day arc is consistent: discovery and positioning in weeks 1–2, identity and system architecture in weeks 3–6, website and operating-system build in weeks 7–10, launch and Studio Care begins in weeks 11–12. The hours are absorbed. The brand ships in ninety days.
For government engagements, the studio operates as a federal small business prime contractor — UEI J2JXA434NS13, CAGE 1Z8P1, SAM.gov registered and active. Primary NAICS 541613 (Marketing Consulting Services). For veteran entrepreneurs, the studio delivers structured twelve-month advisory engagements under the VA Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment program.
After launch, Studio Care holds the work for as long as the client wants the studio close. Most stay.
Twenty years. Three cities. One studio.
Founded in Harlem
Cities — New York, Atlanta, Medellín
Days — the studio's standard delivery arc
Core capabilities under one house
If you're building the brand that intends to last, I'd like to hear about it.
Every engagement begins with the lead form. We respond within twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Upward and onward.
— Mark Riley
Great Breads Studio · New York · Atlanta · Medellín