Sedge was born in Flint, Michigan, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University of La Verne in La Verne, California. In 1973 Sedge started his service in the United States Navy, and was soon assigned to Southern Italy for what was meant to be a 48 month stay. He was assigned to diverse locales in Europe until 1977. Eventually Sedge, who also speaks Italian, took up permanent residence in Naples, Italy to pursue writing and journalism.
Marketing Career
1988 Sedge founded Strawberry Media Agency, a Naples-based media/marketing agency. In 1989 MCI Communications hired Sedge to establish and direct their European military marketing. He did so until 1995, and in his last four years on the project, the company's military market revenues increased by $3 million annually.
After 1995, Arrowhead Global Solutions assigned Sedge and Strawberry Media to manage the logistical, operational, and financial activities of the Army Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) contract for AT&T Call Home during the war in Bosnia. He was then assigned as in-country project manager for Arrowhead Global Solutions’ contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for the design and construction of satellite communications systems in Italy. Other Strawberry marketing clients included Bank of America, Holiday Inn International, Mobil Oil, Rapid LInk Telecommunications, Deep Bridge, and Planet Euro. He was VP of Marketing for Megagiga, the 7th largest hosting agency in the world. The company produces editorial packages (articles, photos, illustrations) for more than forty publications around the world and syndicates in Canada, Holland, and Asia. They have a photography division specializing in stock databases, many of which are images taken by Sedge himself.
In 2003 he co-founded Michael-Bruno, LLC, an American architectural design, engineering service andconstruction management firm. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with a field office in Naples. Michael-Bruno, LLC has won multiple contracts with NATO, the U.S. military, and Italian restorative projects.
- The Sedge Group
In an
Entrepreneur profile, Sedge was dubbed the "wizard of marketing." The publishing guru Sol Stein sought Sedge when looking to market his own books in Europe. Sedge is also owner of The Sedge Group, a marketing firm based in Wilmington, Delaware. The Sedge Group acts as a publicist/media firm to get companies exposure in high-tech/finance media.