By Greg Hazley
Alan Mount, founder and retired president of New York agency Mount & Nadler, died Aug. 10 after suffering a recent heart attack. He was 75 and lived for the last 10 years in Hallandale, Fla.
Mount was a colleague with Hedda Nadler at Irving L. Strauss Associates during the 1970s before they teamed up form M&N in 1980. He was previously director of PR at Ziff Davis Publications and enjoyed theater and writing throughout his life.
Earlier in his career, he did a stint as personal PR aide to Allen Funt of “Candid Camera” and was an information office for U.S. Army recruiting for two years after college.
M&N claims to be the oldest PR firm specializing in mutual funds and money management organizations.
“Thirty-one years ago, that was considered daring,” said Nadler. “Alan and I had rare experience in that area, so we ventured forth. We never regretted our decision.”
Mount was a Philadelphia native and graduate of New York University. He taught the “Fundamentals of PR & Publicity” at The New School during the ‘70s and ‘80s
He retired from M&N in mid-1999.
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