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| Alan Kelly |
Alan Kelly, who founded Applied Communications Group in 1992 in Silicon Valley, died April 13. He was 64.
Founded before the explosion of Internet usage, Applied ranked among the Top Ten technology firms with more than 60 staffers in San Francisco, Washington and Amsterdam.
It counted Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, BEA Systems, VeriSign, Cisco, StorageTek and PayPal among its clients.
Kelly sold Applied’s PR and communications research unit to Britain’s Next 15, parent of Bite Communications in Text 100, in 2003.
He then launched Playmaker Systems in Bethesda in 2006 to help professionals anticipate moves in their markets.
Kelly also lectured on strategic communications at the University of Maryland, served as a political analyst at SiriusXM and blogged at HuffPost.
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
Bill Murray, who had been with MikeWorldWide for 35 years (most recently as EVP/national director, public affairs), has passed away at 67 after a battle with cancer.
Peter Costiglio, a top corporate communications executive for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a long-battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He was 76.
