Mary Dawne Arden |
Mary
Dawne Arden, of Arden Assocs., New York, specializes in marketing communications.
She coaches executives in leadership skills and to prepare them for public speaking,
business presentations, media interviews, road shows, and crisis management. She
also provides marketing and public relations consulting.
Arden is a Communications
Expert for the NBC's "Today Show Weekend Edition," and is fluent in
four languages: Italian, Spanish, French, and English. Previous AA clients include
CitiGroup, Oracle Corporation, Time Inc., New Media, NBC Broadcasting, Tiffany
and Co., Clairol, Bristol-Myers Squibb, General Electric, Banker's Trust, Private
Banking, Great Western Financial Co., Chase Bank, The California Senate and the
United Nations.
She is on the faculty of New York University's Department
of Culture and Communication and is a member of the school's Commission for the
Arts and Humanities in Education.
Arden spent four
years in the Caribbean and Latin America as a marketing director and general manager
for Helena Rubinstein International. mda@ardenassociates.com
Mike Ballard |
Mike
Ballard of Ballard Communications, Las Vegas, has focused on real estate,
technology and health care PR since starting BC in 1992.
He specializes
in trouble-shooting corporate communications issues and has counseled companies
on media-initiated investigations, accidental deaths, product recalls and takeovers.
Ballard's clients include Arthur Andersen, Hoffmann-La Roche, and Laurich
Properties, among others.
He is on the board of Pinnacle Worldwide and
is a member of its executive committee, representing BC's equity partnership in
PW.
Investor's Business Daily has called Ballard one of the few PR pros
with strong ethics. He said his firm has shunned Las Vegas' gaming industry and
has turned down work from tobacco companies and liquor concerns.
Ballard
is a past president of PRSA/Las Vegas and served on the editorial advisory business
council for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the state's largest daily paper. ballard@ballardpr.com.
Paulette Barrett is founding principal
of The Barrett Workshops, professional development programs for PR firms and corporate
communications departments. She has been a PR consultant to corporations, agencies
and non-profit institutions for the past 10 years.
She initiated a Corporate
Philanthropy Management capability in 2002, based on her work with nonprofits
and in collaboration with a consultant to nonprofit organizations.
Formerly,
Barrett was an executive VP and general manager for Edelman PR Worldwide, New
York; exec. VP, Rowland Worldwide, N.Y., and managing director of Hill and Knowlton's
Chicago office. She was also exec. director/comms. at UJA-Federation/NY.
Barrett's
workshops have participants confront reality-based scenarios. She leads Socratic,
interactive discussion and role-playing exercises.
Barrett's agency clients
range from international networks to boutiques, and have included Fleishman-Hillard,
PepperCom, SCIENSWorldwide and Noonan/Russo. She also counsels firms on organizational
and internal communications processes.
For corporate clients, Barrett delivers
workshops that tell business managers how PR works, how to conduct PR activities
internally, how to contract and direct agency PR services effectively.
Most
recently, she conducted a two-day program for Unilever/Bestfoods.
Barrett
developed a leadership training curriculum for PRSA.
The PRSA Counselors
Academy in 2001 published a paper Barrett wrote on training.
Barrett
is an adjunct instructor at New York University, teaching PR courses in the Management
and Marketing Institute, as well as marketing and writing courses in the Center
for Philanthropy.
paulettebarrett@earthlink.net.
Barbara A. Bauer specializes in marketing communications for insurance, employee benefit and financial
service clients. In addition to consulting, she writes corporate and product marketing
materials, annual reports and lends insights to web projects.
Her
experience includes more than 20 years working for large multinational firms in
management, marketing and communications. She was Director of Corporate Communications
for American International Group, established and managed a Market Research Information
Center for Cigna, and was Vice President and Director of Marketing for Skandia
Reinsurance Group. As head of PR for Citibank’s US Card Products Group, she
helped raise over $25 million for the homeless, directing Citibank’s co-sponsorship
of Hands Across America.
A graduate of American
University and accredited by PRSA, she is a member of the Association of Professional
Insurance Women (APIW), and the Reinsurance Consultants Group. She is cited in
Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Insurance & Risk Management. barbarabauer@pioneeris.net
Alan Caruba |
Alan
Caruba has been a PR counselor since the late 1970's after a career in
journalism and positions with the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the
New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Caruba has worked with the specialty
chemicals industry, pharmaceuticals, and the pest management industry for corporations,
associations, and individuals such as authors and inventors.
His specialties
these days are conservative think tanks and comparable organizations.
Caruba
created the media spoof, The Boring Institute, (www.boringinstitute.com) with
its annual list of "The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year" and other
events.
In 1990 he founded The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse
for information about media-driven scare campaigns designed to influence public
opinion and policy.
A charter member of the National Book Critics Circle,
Caruba also maintains a book review website and is the author of several books,
in addition to contributing to consumer and trade magazines.
Caruba
is a longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the American
Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Association of Science Writers,
and the National Book Critics Circle. In addition, he is a member of the board
of the American Policy Foundation.
acaruba@aol.com.
Robert Dilenschneider |
Robert L. Dilenschneider,
New York, former head of Hill and Knowlton when it was the largest PR firm in
the world, has had his own firm since 1991.
He has provided PR counsel to
many of the biggest companies and organizations in the U.S. and abroad and is
frequently called upon by the media to provide commentary on major news stories.
He has an M.A. in journalism from Ohio State University and a B.A. from the University
of Notre Dame.
Dilenschneider is the author of six books, including the
best-selling Power and Influence.
The other books are A Briefing for Leaders,
On Power, The Critical 14 Years of Your Professional Life, Moses: C.E.O., and
The Critical 2nd Phase of Your Professional Life.
He
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the U.S.-Japan Business Council;
the Economic Clubs of New York and Chicago, and the Florida Council of 100. In
recognition of his contribution in promoting New York City, he received the City's
Big Apple Award. He is a member of PRSA and the International PR Assn.
rld@dgi-nyc.com
Joel Drucker |
Joel
Drucker, Oakland, Calif., began his professional career in agency PR, spending a decade at Burson-Marsteller,
Edelman and Phase Two Strategies. He now works as both a communications consultant
and a journalist.
His consulting practice focuses on two main areas –
in all product categories: communications skills training – media, presentations,
speeches – on everything from product launches to earnings announcements
to crises, and writing and consulting.
Training clients have included such
companies as IBM, MCI, Sybase, Chevron and the California Milk Advisory Board,
as well as with dozens of emerging technology firms such as AskJeeves and Vignette.
Drucker's writing work includes a variety of projects, such as executive
bylines, speeches, marketing materials and program development.
As
a journalist, he writes about sports, popular culture and business for both print
and broadcast media, including Forbes FYI, Northwest Traveler, Diversion, Men’s Journal, Tennis and, for TV, including HBO, CBS and TNT.
JDruck@aol.com
Andrew Edson |
Andrew
S. Edson, New York, specializes in PR and investor relations and has more
than 20 years' experience as a senior executive at PR firms and on the corporate
side.
He was a founder of The Worldcom Group, the largest group of independent
PR firms, and served as group secretary and a director from 1988-1995.
Edson
began his career as a writer with the Memphis Press-Scimitar, a daily newspaper.
He has a B.A. in American history and government from
Fairleigh Dickinson University, N.J., and an M.A. in history from the University
of Memphis. andrew@edsonpr.com
Joel Feldstein |
Joel Feldstein, Atlanta, principal in Corporate Communications Resources (CCR), brings his experience in strategic communications programming to businesses, associations and government agencies looking to maximize the effectiveness of their communications efforts.
Through CCR, he also works with agencies to enhance the results of their new-business-development efforts. He helps them build stronger and long-lasting client relationships by helping them strengthen their programming and execution capabilities. He is frequently called upon to develop crisis management programs, media train spokespersons and act as spokesperson in crisis situations.
Feldstein has served as VP and director of the PR group at Pittsburgh-based Blattner Brunner, VP and director of N W Ayer Public Relations/Midwest, Chicago, and executive vice president of KemperLesnik Communications, also Chicago. While building an excellent track record in new business development, he has led agency teams developing and implementing complex programs for world-class clients. They have included Starbucks Coffee; Continental Airlines; Aetna, Prudential and Harmony Health Plans; orbitz.com, the travel web site; Underwriters Laboratories; Sony Electronics; Pennzoil-Quaker State; NEC; and Moose International, the international fraternal organization.
He has significant experience in working with government agencies, and has managed integrated marketing programs reaching target audiences during urban highway reconstruction projects of the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Feldstein has worked with Continental Airlines to introduce new products globally, and developed and managed programs to introduce Underwriters Laboratories to new markets in the U.K. and India. He spent several years representing a major candy company owned by the Finnish company Huhtamaki Oy in Europe and the U.S. He is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, and has a master’s degree from the Medill School at Northwestern University.
joel@corpcommresources.com
Jane
Genova, President of Genova Writing & More, Westport, Conn., specializes
in high-profile attention for leaders, organizations, causes, products or services.
Under clients' bylines, her writing has been widely published, ranging
from The New York Times and USA Today to trade pubs such as Ad
Age and Engineering Horizons, to Chief Executive Speeches and Vital Speeches of the Day, to six books.
Genova handles secondary
research, interviews, positioning, writing, rewriting and editing of articles,
opinion pieces, letters, backgrounders, speeches, presentations and books for
clients. In addition, she positions position and packages communications for marketing/sales
and investor relations.
Clients have ranged from GE and American Express
to management consultants, small businesses, nonprofits and others.
Genova
has taught communications at the Universities of Michigan, Pittsburgh and Connecticut.
Her opinions on communications have recently been published in Dartnell Handbook
to Public Relations, Success, PR Expert and this website.
Before
opening her own shop in 1987, she had worked full time in communications for IBM
and the former Chrysler led by the Lee Iacocca's team, General Foods and Gulf
Oil.
She has a Master's Degree in English Literature
and Language, did graduate work in business administration and attended Harvard
Law School. MGENOVA981@aol.com
David Granoff |
David
Granoff, New York, has had his own PR firm for nearly 20 years. He is a
hands-on personal publicist and placement specialist focusing on entertainment,
beauty and fashion, and hospitality. His client list includes some who have been
with him since he opened his firm.
Past and present clients include Anna
Nicole Smith; soap opera legend Eileen Fulton; DKNY supermodel duo Esther Canadas
and Mark Vanderloo; romance novel icon and Playmate Cindy Guyer; athlete Gabrielle
Reece; Benedict Morelli, one of the lawyers on Fox TV's "Power of Attorney"
and a prominent civil litigator; Dr. N.V. Perricone, the author of The Wrinkle
Cure, and hair transplant specialist Dr. Bahman Ashraf.
Granoff's corporate
clients include Alberto Culver and its brands Alberto VO5, Tresemme and St. Ives;
Wilhelmina Models and Wilhelmina Artist Management; Primedia's Soap Opera Weekly;
Soap Opera Hall of Fame, and restaurants Rue 57, Two Two Two, Mars 2112, and Jekyll
and Hyde.
The special placement expertise of Granoff and his staff have
been called on for a number of unique projects, product launches and nationwide
rollouts. He helped re-launch Vitalis for Clairol; introduced Vital Nutrients
by Matrix Essentials, and conducted a 10-city U.S. tour with Claudia Schiffer
for Guess.
He has also conducted special promotions for a number of movies
including "A Letter from Death Row."
Granoff has established close
professional relationships with an extensive network of editors, writers and television
producers.
A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of City
University of New York, majoring in literature. He started his media career with
the ground breaking magazine After Dark.
dgranoff@granoffpr.com.
www.granoffpr.com
Peter Haas
|
Peter
Haas, New York, writes executivespeeches and presentations, corporate and
product marketing materials, customer and employee newsletters, annual reports,
magazine articles and other materials.
Clients represent such fields as
consumer products; banks, investment firms and other financial services; publishing,
media and marketing; education, medical research and social services; entertainment,
and the PR community intself.
Before becoming principal of The Haas Group
in 1991, he was director of corporate communications for McGraw-Hill. Earlier
he held communication and editorial posts at International Paper Co., CBS, and
American Management Assn.
Haas has developed workshops for PRSA and has
taught courses in corporate communications, PR writing and speechwriting for New
York University's Management Institute.
He is past
president of The Public Relations Society: New York, the Council for Communication
Management, and the Council of Communication Societies, and is past director of
PRSA/NY and IABC/NY.
prhaas@aol.com
Lou Rena Hammond |
Lou
Rena Hammond, New York, has headed her own firm for more than 16 years,
handling PR, PA, international promotions, product introductions and crisis communications.
Her
firm handles a number of travel and general PR accounts.
Hammond developed
skills for marketing to upscale clients while at Pan American World Airways for
15 years. She was director of special projects, promotion, publicity and PA.
Her
earlier experience included editorial assignments as calendar editor with Avenue
magazine and promotional duties for Dior du Liban.
Hammond has extensive
knowledge of worldwide markets from handling accounts on six continents. She also
has close relationships with many government agencies. She and her firm hold numerous
awards including the 1991 Winthrop W. Grice Award from the Hospitality Sales and
Marketing Assn. Int'l.
She is a member of the Women's
Forum; Women Executives in PR; Society of American Travel Writers; International
Food, Wine & Travel Writers Assn.; the Fashion Group; Les Dames d-Escoffier;
Assn. for a Better New York, and PRSA. She is cited in Who's Who in America. LHA@hammond.com
Leon Kafka |
Leon
Kafka, New York, specializes in media relations and publicity. He handles
writing, media placement, direct mail, advertising, special events planning and
counseling to CEOs.
Kafka, who has worked in numerous industries including
health, discount brokerage, graphic arts, textiles, menswear and travel, is a
graduate of the University of Missouri (B.A. in Journalism).
He
also attended the Sorbonne, Paris. He is a licensed accident/health and life insurance
broker.
lkafka2@aol.com
Daniel Keeney |
Daniel Keeney established DPK Public Relations in 2003. A 24-year veteran of the communications field, Keeney is a former broadcast journalist who worked as a reporter, anchor and talk show host at local radio stations in Virginia and Chicago before working as a network director of news and programming.
Keeney, who is based in Texas, says his journalism background is particularly valuable to executives who are preparing for media interviews. Through DPK PR's "Media Interview Skills Training," Keeney has trained hundreds of spokespeople across the country to be more confident and comfortable in the media spotlight.
He is a four-time winner of the Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society. The programs that won those awards included:
• Building public support and appreciation for Intel Corporation while convincing lawmakers to grant the company a tax break that saved it $200 million;
• Convincing Oregonians to bring competition to an electricity market that boasted the nation's lowest rates;
• Helping protect the health of Keiko, the killer whale who starred in the movie "Free Willy";
• Keeping a small nonprofit Florida hospital from a being taken over by the city in which it is located in a hostile takeover.
Prior to establishing DPK PR, Dan was the GM of a large Houston PR firm. He previously held leadership positions with firms on the West Coast, where he was honored for work on ballot measure campaigns and crisis communications response. He got his start in PR with Ketchum in Pittsburgh.
DPK maintains a team of independent counselors and engages them on an as-needed basis either to assist with projects or to manage programs under the close supervision of Keeney. He says this structure helps keep costs to a minimum while affording clients access to the best strategic thinking and hands-on implementation by experienced and highly capable PR professionals.
Recognizing that clients increasingly have international needs as their businesses expand around the world, DPK is part of the IPR Team, which provides clients access to local media, political, cultural and economic knowledge in markets around the world.
DPK PR is at www.dpkpr.com; dan@keeneypr.com.
Judith King |
Judith King has spent more than twenty years working in every phase and field of public relations: corporate, healthcare, biotechnology, entertainment, literary, nonprofit and more.
She became an independent professional in February 1997, marketing her freelance writing services to advertising and PR agencies and in-house PR departments that were in need of interim services.
She later added established businesses, new start-ups and individuals to her client list, providing both writing and public relations consulting services.
Because of her broad background, King considers herself a generalist. She enjoys a successful record of positioning clients and has extensive experience in strategic planning of media campaigns and the development and implementation of plans.
For the last 11 years, King has provided writing (including web content), PR consulting and media relations support to clients in Massachusetts, New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio and Ontario, Canada. Formerly, she was education and communications manager for seven years at Integrated Genetics in Framingham, MA (part Genzyme Corporation).
King has worked for a variety of corporate PR companies over the years. She also served as entertainer Merv Griffin’s personal publicist and was PR manager for Merv Griffin Enterprises.
King’s Web site is: www.judith-king.com.
Sherri Klein |
Sherri
Klein is founder and president of Stamford, Conn.-based Klein Communications.
Klein
has developed and implemented media relations projects and campaigns aimed at
improving corporate bottom line results and managing image perception.
Prior
to forming her own company, she focused on media relations at worldwide and boutique
agencies, along with in-house work at corporate PR divisions of large firms.
Throughout
her 15-year career, she has represented clients in a spectrum of industries, including
financial, healthcare, real estate, high-tech, food, fashion and consumer products,
as well as non-profit advocacy and cultural organizations.
Klein has been
affiliated with Howard Rubenstein Associates, Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart, and
Integrated Marketing Communications of Manhattan, and The Kotchen Group and Peter
Martin Associates of Connecticut. She also has served as in-house PR counsel for
Israel Bonds and the Jewish Federation.
A Cornell University graduate,
Klein majored in communication arts and continues to participate in educational
seminars sponsored by PRSA.
Along with PRSA, she is
a member of the International Association of Business Communicators, the PR Advisory
Board of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce, and the Women's Business Development
Center in Fairfield County Connecticut.
sklein@kleincomm.com
April Klimley, New York, former
head of PR for Chemical Bank, has had her own firm since 1982.
A seasoned writer
and editor, she provides editorial services and counsel to financial institutions
and organizations within the U.S. and abroad.
Klimley's clients range from
Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank, to smaller companies such as
Stamford, Conn.-based Access Securities.
She also handles projects for consumer
corporations and management consulting firms, often writing on employee benefit
topics.
Klimley is editor-in-chief of VISONS, a quarterly magazine published
by the Product Development and Management Assn. She also writes ad sections for
Fortune, Business Week, Institutional Investor and Black Enterprise on issues
from private banking to diversity and minority purchasing.
She
is the author of a book on careers in the financial world, a member of the Wednesday
PR Club and active in the Columbia School of Journalism alumni assn.
Lee Laino |
Lee
Laino, New York, specializes in reputation management, financial PR and
crisis communications.
He directed crisis operations for Fokker Aircraft
and British Aerospace/Jetstream Aircraft following several air disasters involving
their aircraft in the U.S.
Laino also developed crisis contingency plans
for Airbus Industrie, Air Canada, Frontline Shipping (Sweden) and Mitsui Shipping
(Japan). He continually conducts crisis simulation exercises for clients.
Before
founding his own firm, Lee Laino Consultants, in 1986, he was general manager
of Porter/Novelli PR, New York, for two years.
Laino was previously executive
VP and a member of the management committee of Carl Byoir & Assocs. He also
served as director of corporate and financial communications for Liggett Group,
where he was part of a mangement team that defended against a hostile takeover.
Laino
has also held PR positions with American Airlines/Americana Hotels and American
Express Co. He began his career with WCBS-TV, New York.
Laino
has a B.A. from St. John's Univ., and a graduate degree from the Sorbonne. He
was on the faculty of Troy State Univ. and is the author of a corporate takeover
manual used in Harvard's MBA curriculum.
llaino@nyc.rr.com
Dan Leinweber |
Dan Leinweber, founder of PR consulting firm Leinweber Associates in Sudbury, Mass., helps clients solve tough business problems with creative, results-oriented solutions. His clients have included office products giant Staples and Matrix Partners, a leading venture capital firm.
Leinweber started his firm in 1991 after working in management positions at Carl Byoir & Associates, Harshe-Rotman & Druck and Creamer Dickson Basford.
During his three-decade career in New York and Boston, Leinweber has counseled dozens of CEOs and presidents from small start-up companies to Fortune 100 corporations. He has worked in virtually every industry, including apparel, automotive, entertainment, financial services, food and beverage, healthcare, high tech, law, publishing, real estate, retailing, and travel.
A frequent speaker and writer on PR issues, Leinweber's specialties range from strategic thinking and media relations to unique special events and product promotions. He has won numerous industry awards, including a Silver Anvil, and is a five-time winner of the Bell Ringer Award from the Publicity Club of New England.
Leinweber is a graduate of Ohio University with a bachelor of science degree in journalism. He serves on the board of directors of the Boston Adult Literacy Fund and Horizons for Youth. An avid tennis player, Leinweber is also a past president of the Wightman Tennis Center in Weston, Mass.
He can be reached at dan@leinweber.com and leinweber.com.
Bambe Levine |
Bambe
Levine, New York, founded Bambe Levine Public Relations in 1978 as a marketing
communications agency specializing in consumer products and services in the area
of food, entertainment, beauty, health-care, and automotive, among others.
As
a former model, writer, and beauty editor for Woman's Day magazine, Levine's background
is that of an "insider" offering editorial experience from both a consumer
and trade perspective.
BLPR handles new product launches and repositioning,
multi-city special events, celebrity marketing, sales promotion campaigns, contests,
research, trade-shows, press kit and brochure development, and national publicity
campaigns for a broad array of clients, among other services.
The firm
created the Fabio "Love" campaign for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
launching the Spray which was touted by Lipton's (Unilever) most senior marketing
team as "the best public relations effort ever done for a margarine product."
Other clients have included the new product launch of Five Brothers Pasta
Sauce, Saclá Italian Pasta Sauce Brands, Shedd's Spread Country Crock,
Promise Buttery Light, Ragú, Pizza Quick, Butterball Farms, Hansel 'n Gretel
Brands, Vassarette Lingerie, Branson-Missouri Chamber of Commerce, best-selling
author Janet Dailey, the New York Automobile Show, Daytop Village, and others.
Before starting her firm, Levine held senior positions at Needham Harper
& Steers Advertising, Grey Advertising, Daniel J. Edelman & Assocs., and
Dunwoodie Communications.
She has lectured widely on PR and writing.
Levine
is a board member of the RoundTable for Women in FoodService and holds memberships
in the Women Executives in PR, New York Women's Culinary Alliance, the New York
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, along with PRSA's Counselors Academy
and the Food and Beverage section.
bambe@earthlink.net
During the past 14 years, Patricia
A. Limoges has worked with senior corporate management, mutual fund portfolio
managers, market strategists, economists and equity analysts in the financial
services sector and more recently in the biotech, medical device, professional
services and e-commerce industries.
Prior to starting a media relations consultancy,
she served for three years as director of media relations for the New York office
of The Hawthorn Group, where she was responsible for all media relations activity
on behalf of the company's financial and corporate practices.
Prior to Hawthorn,
Patricia had been engaged in financial and business-to-business media relations
on behalf of a number of clients as an independent consultant.
Previously,
she was a VP at Rubenstein Associates, where she was responsible for planning
and implementing media relations activities on behalf of financial services firms.
Her
clients have been quoted or profiled in general interest, business, financial
and trade publications, as well as the wire services and have appeared on financial
networks and business programs.
She has also been engaged in writing new
business proposals, designing media relations programs, developing pitch letters,
press releases and background materials for press kits. She has also conducted
and participated in media training sessions to help clients present a positive
image communicate effectively.
A prior career in the financial industry
included positions in portfolio management and new business development in the
banking and mutual fund industry.
A Canadian, and a
graduate of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, she has also attended
McGill University, Montreal, PQ, and the New York Institute of Finance.
PALIMOGES@aol.com
Londre |
Patti
Londre, Los Angeles, founded The Londre Company, which specializes in corporate
and product PR for food, beverage and consumer goods/services clients, in 1982.
Her specialty is handling media crises for food companies, including product recalls,
foodborne illness outbreaks, tampering and more.
Londre has been recognized
by both the PR and food marketing communities for her work. In 1996, she was honored
by the International Assn. of Culinary Professionals as the first recipient of
the organization's Award of Excellence for Marketer/Publicist.
She was named
Food and Beverage "PR All-Star" by Inside PR magazine. She was also
named Business Home Economist of the Year by the Los Angeles Home Economists in
Business.
For more than 20 years, Londre has provided marketing support
for some of the nation's leaders in their categories including Dole, Nestle, Kahlua,
Lawry's Foods, Alberto Culver, Lipton, the California Avocado Commission, El Pollo
Loco, Mrs. Fields Cookies, Hiram Walker International Liqueurs, the California
Egg Commission, American Express/IDS Financial Services, Countrywide Funding and
many others.
Londre earned her bachelor's degree in family studies and consumer
sciences from San Diego State University.
She was
formerly an account manager at Berkhemer & Kline (now part of Golin/Harris)
handling the firm's food accounts. Previously, she was an A/S with Campbell Soup,
responsible for sales, new product launches, trade shows and special events. She
was also a home economist for Vons Grocery Co.
plondre@londre.com.
Cindy Martin |
Cindy Martin, CLM Communications, Chicago, is a publicist and writer who helps organizations of all sizes achieve their visibility goals.
A former newspaper reporter, she worked in corporate communications before holding management positions at three of the Windy City’s top PR firms.
Since 1993, she has maintained a solo practice working with clients all over the U.S. across industries like advertising, biotechnology, financial services, food and beverage, healthcare, hospitality, not-for-profit, real estate and retail. Both agencies and companies regularly have retained her for short- or long-term assistance.
Typical assignments involve media relations and writing to support business development, corporate expansions, investor relations, mergers and product launches. Examples include a publicity program for a regional furniture retailer to support its national expansion which resulted in media coverage in every new market and record-setting attendance at grand opening events.
She also led the product launch of a line of frozen meals for children that, primarily through PR, became the international food manufacturer's second largest brand within just six months. For publicly traded companies, she has secured news coverage in business media such as Barron’s, Bloomberg Television, Business Week, CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Investor’s Business Daily, and The Wall Street Journal.
Results of Martin’s writing and publicity efforts appear regularly in major, national media, as well as in local and regional print and broadcast outlets, in various trade publications and online.
Martin said she prides herself on producing results on time and on budget, and sometimes on tight deadlines. linkedin.com/in/cindymartinpr | cindy@clmcomm.com
Raleigh
Mayer |
Raleigh Mayer,
New York, has counseled Avon Products, Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch, Clark
& Weinstock and Hyperspace Cowgirls New Media. She advises on making presentations
and handling press interviews and does corporate image building and reputation
management.
She is the program advisor for the PR division of New York University's
Marketing and Management Institute, where she is an assistant professor of marketing.
She is also a leader of the NYU Summer Institute on PR.
Mayer
was formerly VP-PA, New York City Marathon. She is an emcee for the Chase Corporate
Challenge and the Race for the Cure. She received a B.A. in English from Middlebury
College, Vermont, and was a reporter for Park East News, a Manhattan culture monthly. em15@is4.nyu.edu.
Robert Metz |
Robert
Metz, New York, created the daily column, "The Market Place,"
for the New York Times as a primer for small investors.
He began his career
at the Times as its first tax columnist and later won a Harvard Nieman Fellowship.
Metz exposed hostile takeover conspiracies and won a Pulitzer nomination. His
focus on high tech led to Future Stocks, a book on stocks with a promise of large
gains. He won a Gerald Loeb Award and The John Hancock Award for financial journalism.
After
becoming FNN's managing editor in New York, he also wrote a column for The Boston
Globe, Providence Journal, Houston Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal and New York Daily
News, among other major papers.
Metz spent ten years
at FNN including stints as an anchor plus daily radio and TV spots. He created
"Money Talks," an e-zine for PR Newswire. In February 1999 he published
with Donald Mitchell and Carol Coles, The 2000% Solution, now in its fourth printing.
Metz has continued as a financial writer for various media.
rmetz211@aol.com.
George P. Nicholas |
George
P. Nicholas, New York, specializes in marketing for business services companies
that have consulting as part of their service. He specializes in obtaining full-length
articles in business publications that present a client officer's viewpoint, describe
a client's service methodology, or a case study.
He
works with a network of other independent PR people. He is a member of PR Society
of America and has written articles for the Journal of the International PR Society
and Advertising Age.
georgenicholas@mindspring.com.
Frank Ovaitt |
Frank
Ovaitt, McLean, Va., has had PR experience in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications,
Internet services, retailing, automotive, information technology, and professional
services, among other fields.
His employers have included MCI, where he
was VP of corporate affairs; AT&T, where he was PR VP/international; Monsanto,
where he was editorial services director, and Southwestern Bell Corp., where he
began his career. He was the chief writer for award-winning publications at Monsanto
and was also a speechwriter there.
He has a BA in Journalism
from the University of Missouri and an MBA from New York University. He is currently
co-chair of the Institute for PR. frank@crossoverintl.com.
Mike Paul |
Mike
Paul, New York, is a 17-year veteran of strategic public relations, corporate
communications and reputation management. He is the president and senior counselor
of MGP & Associates PR (MGP).
MGP was founded by Mr. Paul in 1994 and
is a leading, boutique, PR and reputation management firm based in New York with
local, national and international clients. The awarding-winning PR firm's senior
consultants provide senior counseling services to top corporate, government, non-profit,
sports and entertainment clients in both good times and bad. No junior employees
work at the firm.
A few of the clients Mr. Paul has counseled include:
Citicorp, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Verizon, Time Warner,
Pfizer, Baxter Healthcare, Manor Care, Libby Ross Breast Cancer Foundation, Timberland,
Dunkin Donuts, Duracell, The Jackie Robinson Foundation, Boxing legends Muhammad
Ali and Joe Frazier, NY Giant greats Phil McConkey and Rodney Hampton, NY Jet
legend Mark Gastineau, The Queen of Soul-Aretha Franklin, New York University,
State University of New York, New School University, The King's College, American
Red Cross, Young Life, City Covenant Coalition, Christian Hope Ministries, High
Impact Leadership Coalition and Vigilante Advertising.
July
of 2004 marked MGP & Associates PR's 10th anniversary serving clients locally,
nationally and internationally. Mr. Paul is considered one of the leading experts
in reputation management, crisis PR and strategic corporate communications in
the field of public relations. mpaul@mgppr.com.
Christine Pietryla |
Christine Pietryla is a communications consultant headquartered in Chicago, Ill., specializing in global business-to-business communications strategy and execution within the manufacturing, packaging, plastics & chemical, automotive & heavy equipment, technology and professional service industries.
In late 2005, after four years of individual consulting, she founded Pietryla Enterprises, Inc., a specialty marketing comms. firm. In this role, she supervises a team of consultants and has negotiated strategic relationships with vendors like BurrellesLuce, BusinessWire and myEmma to provide each client with one expert source for all of its public relations and marketing needs.
She previously worked at Grant Jacoby advertising and PR where she lead B2B PR efforts for 3M-subsidiary Dyneon Fluoropolymers; Rexam Beverage Can Americas; and Hyster Company, and provided support to the International Truck and Engine Corporation account, as well as the agency’s new business team.
Earlier, she was at Gibbs & Soell PR as acting global manager of marketing comms. for Dow Performance Foams and lead agency representative for both the Dow Performance Foams and Engineered Films and Laminates' PR programs.
Throughout her career, Christine has coordinated internal and external communication programs, including the creation of collateral; Internet and Extranet sites; written, video and audio press releases; case studies; technical articles and customer events and programs that support branding and messaging initiatives.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in PR, with an emphasis on business administration, from the University of Florida, Gainesville. www.pietrylaenterprises.com
Alice Shane,
Summit, N.J., provides media and public relations services in the areas of finance,
corporate, business-to-business, insurance, managed care; healthcare and pharmaceuticals;
public policy and legislation. She also represents authors and the publishing
industry. Shane has been a PR executive and consultant to PR firms, including
Ruder Finn and The Rowland Company, and has a background in journalism.
She
has made placements in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barron's;
The Washington Post; Harvard Business Review, Continental Airways Magazine, New
York Daily News, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo FinanceVision, and in special interest publications.
Her
firm produces press kits, pitch letters, backgrounders; white papers, bylined
and ghostwritten articles, brochures, newsletters and internal communications.
It also handles medical meeting coverage for the pharmaceutical industry.
Shane
has served a number of corporations and non-profit organizations, including Prudential
Life Insurance, Ortho Biotech, Booz Allen & Hamilton; Empire Blue Cross/Blue
Shield, ITT Hartford Insurance, McGraw-Hill Publishing, The National Kidney Foundation,
New York Hospital, Queens and Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center.
A graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania, she is a member of the New York Press Club,
the New York Financial Writers' Assn., and the Healthcare PR Society of New York.
shanecom@aol.com
Jeffrey Sharlach |
Jeffrey
Sharlach, who founded the Jeffrey Group in Miami Beach in 1993 after 15
years at major New York PR firms including Rowland Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller
and Carl Byoir & Assocs., has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University
and a law degree from New York University.
He was a reporter for the Westchester-Rockland
Newspapers in 1974 and a writer/editor at WINS/Radio, New York, from 1975-77.
He has managed communications programs in the Americas,
Europe and Asia for multinational clients.
He specializes in PR in Latin
America, handling many blue chip clients. jsharlach@thejeffreygroup.com
Arthur Solomon, a veteran of almost
25 years with Burson-Marsteller, was senior VP, sports marketing, and also played
key roles on major nonsports accounts at the international communications firm.
Solomon was senior person in managing and creating the media thrust
for many significant Olympic and non-Olympic programs. He traveled internationally
as an advisor with ranking government officials and executives of the Seoul Olympic
and Asian Games Organizing Committees and the State of Victoria (Australia). He
also managed the USOC account and, for eight years, the Gillette All-Star Game
election during the era when Gillette was the sole sponsor of the fan balloting
for baseball’s mid-summer classic.
Because of his creative
media skills and strategic thinking, he has been a key player on a variety of
programs for some of the most prestigious names in American business: General
Electric, Raycom Sports, Warner Bros. Publications, Gillette, Metropolitan Life,
Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Dow Chemical, Coca-Cola, Marketplace (for Minnesota Public
Radio), as well as the U.S. Army.
Early in
his career, he was involved with political publicity and then was a journalist
writing for several newspapers including the New York Herald-Tribune and New York
Times. arthursolomon4pr@juno.com;
ph: 914/472-6598
Dan
Tipton, Philadelphia and Delaware, develops employee and public communications
programs that help companies manage change, build value and accelerate growth.
An employee communications specialist, he has managed communications
for a range of situations, from one of the world’s largest bank mergers to
product launches to site closings to government-mandated change initiatives at
a national laboratory.
Tipton previously served as director of
communications for MBNA Corporation, where he developed an award-winning employee
communications program as the Fortune 200 company expanded around the world.
He has more than 20 years supporting the communications needs of corporations,
small businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Some of his clients
for employee communications and public relations programs include Bank of America,
Rohm and Haas, Sandia National Laboratory, Independence Blue Cross, and Efotolab.com.
He is president of the International Association of
Business Communicators/Delaware and is a member of the Society of Human Relations
Professionals. www.tiptoncommunications.com; dan@tiptoncommunications.com. |
