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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.
Hugh Braithwaite, founder of Braithwaite Communications in Philadelphia, died Feb. 28. He was 63.
Alfred Horowitz, who was a PR counselor, educator, businessman and philanthropist, died February 14 of natural causes. He was 93.
Ginger Reeder, the former VP-corporate communications at Neiman Marcus, died Jan. 9. She was 64.
José Antonio Llorente, founding partner and executive chairman of Spain’s LLYC, died from cancer on Jan. 1. He was
Bob Dorf, who founded his own firm and then ran Dorf & Stanton with Alex Stanton, died Dec. 2. He was 74.
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