Andrew Chatterton is an Account Supervisor at Schwartz Communications and has over eight years experience in technology public relations. He joined Schwartz from Johnson King, a B2B technology agency.
At Schwartz Andrew works on a variety of accounts, including Empirix, Virtustream, VFA, Simpler and Sitel.
At Johnson King, Andrew worked on a number of clients, including ADC, Corporate Communications, Digital River, dns, Microlise, Packeteer / Blue Coat, Primavera and Viatel
Andrew has excellent contacts throughout the national, broadcast, business and online media, as well as key trade titles covering the IT and telecoms industries. He has also secured great coverage in vertical titles across the construction, health, legal and retail sectors. He has managed pan EMEA campaigns as well as successful analyst relation programmes.
Before joining Johnson King, Andrew began his career at Fresh Communications, a consumer technology agency working on clients such as memory giant Kingston Technology and storage specialists StorCase.
Andrew got a BA Hons History at University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a PRCA Postgraduate Diploma in Public Relations from West Herts College.
Alison Mickey is an Account Executive at Schwartz Communications in San Francisco, where she does PR for solar companies. She has worked with SunRun, Canadian Solar, and Cool Earth Solar, as well as for the Bay Area Business Council on Climate Change. Previous work experience was mostly outside the U.S., in Australia, China, and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the latter of which suffers from rapid desertification compounded by rampant poverty.
Alison has a B.A. in Chinese language, literature and culture, and an M.A. in international studies and diplomacy. She does not own a car and has no children or pets, so her individual carbon footprint stays pretty low.
Bryan Scanlon has diverse experience building visibility for the agency's enterprise technology accounts, including the network, security, database, appliances, application integration and Web services markets. Bryan has taken several little-known technology providers, including AXENT Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Red Hat, Concord Communications, Netezza and webMethods, from launch to prominence and market leadership.
Bryan has more than 10 years of communications experience and has been with Schwartz since 1997. He has a track record of placements in top-tier business and broadcast trade press, including BusinessWeek, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Boston Globe, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, Upside, Forbes, and Dow Jones News, Bloomberg and Reuters wire services. He has provided strategic counsel and media relations for more than two dozen initial public offerings and acquisitions and leads the agency's strategic relationship with The New England Technology Sales, Marketing & Business Development Executives Association (NETSEA).
Prior to Schwartz, Bryan was an associate at another PR agency, where he managed strategic and day-to-day media and analyst relations for $3 billion CompuCom Systems, an in-circuit emulator manufacturer, and divisions of Banyan Systems, Inc. He has produced marketing collateral for leading technology companies and ghost written more than two dozen articles for senior executives in some of the industry's most technical publications, including Network World, CNET and Electronic Design. As a freelance writer and photographer, Bryan's work has appeared in Computerworld, among other publications. He has won several top PR awards, including a Gold CIPRA and Bronze Anvil from the Public Relations Society of America.
Bryan holds a B.F.A. degree in writing from Johnson State College and an M.A. degree in English from Western Michigan University, where he also taught composition and journalism.
Twitter: @bkscanlon
With more than 20 years of high-tech marketing experience, Carol McGarry provides strategic counsel to agency clients, helping them to break through the media clutter and capture market leadership. She has worked with innovators in a broad range of technology areas, including consumer electronics, security, application management and financial technology. She leads the agency's wireless, telecommunications and networking practice group.
McGarry joined the agency in 1993 as its fifth employee and first vice president, and has helped to build the culture of excellence that has fueled the agency's growth. Over the years, she has been involved with many aspects of the agency's decision-making and management. As creative director, she established the Creativity and PR Excellence Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements and encourage the creative contributions of all staffers across the agency. She also leads agency brainstorming sessions on behalf of clients.
Past and current clients include Macromedia, Lycos, Netegrity, CheckFree Corporation, Progress Software, Wildfire Communications, AXENT Technologies, MapInfo, StreamServe and Optier. Among her accomplishments, McGarry led the team that launched Macromedia's Shockwave and Flash, creating enduring brands on the Internet.
Her award-winning work with teams at Schwartz has earned her industry accolades that include the Silver Anvil Award, Publicity Club of Boston's Bell Ringer Award, Bulldog Reporter's Award for Excellence in Media Relations and PR, the CES Marcom Award, and The Communicator Award. Her team won a 2002 Silver Anvil with client CheckFree for a nationwide campaign to evangelize electronic bill payment for consumers and a 2005 Silver Anvil for the campaign on behalf of Peppercoin, Inc.
McGarry has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and has spoken at the Red Herring conference and the Publicity Club of Boston. She started her professional career in high-tech publishing and earned theB.A. at Harvard University.
As a Senior Account Executive, Clinton is an experienced public relations professional who has worked with many technology providers, including Progress Software, Schooner Information Technology, Xignite, and is a core member of the Schwartz Communications Security Practice, working with Solidcore, M86 Security, BeyondTrust, Aveksa, Vormetric and Breach Security as well as campaigns to promote Javelin Strategy and Research’s annual Identity Theft report. He has also assisted ad-hoc and pro-bono accounts, such as Families for Depression Awareness.
Clinton leads breaking news outreach for multiple accounts and has been instrumental in launching many new businesses and services. Clinton works closely with clients to produce research reports and to identify market trends to drive media coverage. He has successfully secured coverage for clients in a variety of print and broadcast outlets such as Newsweek, the Associated Press and CNN.
Prior to Schwartz, Clinton was a sales and event assistant for Cleveland's largest convention center, where he served as both a media contact and an event manager. Clinton has also worked in communications at The Red Cross and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Clinton earned a B.S. in communication with a focus in public relations from Boston University, where he served on the board of the Public Relations Student Society of America.
Since joining Schwartz Communications in 1998, Chris Stamm has advised clients in agency's healthcare and consumer technology practice groups, helping them create and execute high impact public relations campaigns. Chris has developed PR strategies for both public and private companies during critical business milestones including startup, IPO, acquisition, divestiture and major regulatory milestones. He has counseled clients in a diverse range of healthcare industries including medical device and diagnostics (Nobel Biocare, GE Healthcare, SentiCare, Organ Recovery Systems), healthcare IT (A.D.A.M, Artromick, Catalisse), and biopharmaceuticals & life sciences (Micromet, Cepheid, Aureon Laboratories) to name a few. Complementing his healthcare sector experience Chris has helped technology companies in a variety of industries create new categories and reach consumers including DayJet, Salary.com, Lycos and others.
Chris leads account teams, develops and implements PR strategy, crafts effective messaging and articulates his clients' stories to a variety of audiences via the press and other mediums. He has considerable experience generating media coverage in top tier national media including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Fortune, The New York Times, USA Today, NBC TODAY, NBC Nightly News, CNN Headline News, CNBC and network affiliate newscasts nation wide.
Over the years, his account teams have been recognized by The Publicity Club of New England with several Bell Ringer Awards including Best to Business Launch (DayJet 2008), Best National Television News Placement (DayJet 2008), Best Organizational Identity Campaign (Disabled Sports USA 2007), Best Business to Business Launch (DayJet 2006; Organ Recovery Systems 2004) and Best National Print Placement (NovaVision, 2005).
Chris holds a B.A. (cum laude) in English and political science with a minor in technical writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has experience as a freelance newspaper reporter, freelance textbook editor, oversees the agency's pro-bono PR support for Disabled Sports USA and is a board member of the Publicity Club of New England.
Dan Borgasano brings more than seven years of communications experience Schwartz Communications. Since joining the company in 2004, he has provided strategic public relations counsel and high-impact media exposure to market-leading clients in the cleantech industry, including solar, alternative fuels and desalination. Borgasano leads account teams, develops and executes strategy, and crafts effective and influential media pitches and campaigns.
During this time with Schwartz, Borgasano has developed a wealth of experience working with clean technology companies. He has worked with fast-growth start ups as well as established industry leaders. Previous and current clients include Borrego Solar Systems, Joule Biotechnologies, Veeco Instruments, Energy Recovery, Inc. and Oerlikon Solar. Borgasano also led the AlwaysOn Going Green East 2009 account team.
Borgasano executes essential components to PR strategies by leveraging established relationships with key media and industry analysts, writing tactical news releases and crafting press kit documents and other collateral that help drive the strategic goals of the overall PR program. He has secured client coverage in a wide variety of top-tier general business publications as well as technology trades, including the Associated Press, BusinessWeek, Cleantech Group, CNET, CNNMoney.com, Dow Jones, Financial Times, Forbes, Greentech Media, Investor's Business Daily, MSNBC.com, New York Times, Scientific American, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and others.
Borgasano joined the Boston office of Schwartz Communications in March 2004 and has spent time in the San Francisco office as well. Prior to working at Schwartz, Borgasano served as a research associate with MediaMap (now Cision). He received a bachelor's degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Twitter: @dborgasano
Dan is an Account Executive at Schwartz Communications. While at the agency, he has been a key member of the Agency's Cleantech PR practice, working with a number of renewable energy technology and service companies. Dan contributes to his clients' PR campaigns by securing high-level media placements, managing speaking and award programs, and drafting strategic press releases and other documents.
Before joining Schwartz, Dan worked at Ketchum as a brand marketing intern. He has a B.A. in journalism with an emphasis in public relations from California State University, Chico. In his spare time, Dan enjoys his remaining time with LOST, spending time outdoors and traveling whenever possible.
Dana Conti has worked on a wide variety of award-winning healthcare PR campaigns. Since joining Schwartz in 2001, Conti has helped to build Schwartz’s biotech and pharmaceutical, medical devices and diagnostics, and healthcare IT practice groups. Conti also represents the healthcare practice as a member of Schwartz's new media committee. At Schwartz, Conti has provided global healthcare concerns and emerging health-technology innovators with business-impacting public relations programs.
Conti played an instrumental role in one of Schwartz's most recognized medical device campaigns, Philips Electronics. For Philips, Conti helped execute a national PR campaign to introduce the first home defibrillator, followed by the first over-the-counter clearance of a therapeutic medical device. The campaign won several prestigious industry awards, including a Communicator Crystal Award, a Silver SABRE and a Bronze Anvil. Conti also worked with Cyberonics, Inc., developing strategic corporate communication for regulatory events and executing regional PR campaigns to support sales efforts for the company's device to treat epilepsy and depression. Conti currently manages a category and brand creation program for GE Healthcare's Monitoring Solutions, a unit within GE Healthcare's $17 billion business.
Conti has played a critical role in helping to grow Schwartz's burgeoning biotech and pharmaceutical, and healthcare IT practice groups. He provides counsel on corporate, investor and scientific communication, as well as partnership management, clinical trial recruitment and issue awareness.
Conti has relationships with several of the nation's leading and most influential reporters and producers at outlets ranging from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times and CNBC.
His responsibilities include managing account teams and their operations; acting as clients' day-to-day contact; developing corporate messaging and strategic PR goals; actively engaging in regular contact with top-tier media and industry analysts; and pursuing placements in the business, consumer, medical, local and trade press to secure positive coverage of his clients. Conti also leads internal training sessions on healthcare PR and business etiquette topics.
Prior to Schwartz, Conti worked at a boutique public relations and marketing firm in Chicago specializing in real estate and professional services companies. His responsibilities at Dickinson Group included public affairs projects, community and media relations, newsletter production and special events planning.
Conti received a B.S. in communication management, with a concentration in communication, politics and law, from Emerson College in Boston.
Since joining Schwartz Communications in 1999, Dara Sklar has driven communications programs for a variety of emerging-growth companies and played an active role in the growth of the security, renewable energy and consumer technology practice groups. Over the years, she has focused on helping innovative companies build brand awareness, increase demand generation and achieve their business goals.
Sklar's industry expertise spans broad market sectors including wireless, financial services, IT security and network infrastructure. As a member of the Consumer Technology Practice Group she is working with innovative online destination sites and services, such as CollegeNET.com and freeconferencalls.com as well as technology companies powering the next generation of digital media and interactive entertainment, such as Cryptography Research and Aspera Software.
She has managed the PR efforts of numerous acquisitions and assisted companies' communications strategies during and following IPOs. Sklar works closely with her clients to develop stellar communications strategies and tenaciously execute on plans to deliver exceptional results. Her close relationships with influential media and analysts provide her with an insider perspective into the industry, helping her teams secure a consistent track record of high-profile business, trade and broadcast placement as well as grow visibility in the blogosphere and social media channels.
Outside of work, Sklar produces and directs short independent films that screen at festivals worldwide. She graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College, where she focused on literary theory in her English major and minored in computer science.
Dave Bowker has been with Schwartz Communications since 1998. In is role as a director, Dave leads strategic programs that enable security companies to accomplish their PR goals as they deliver technologies to keep businesses running and consumers safe.
Before joining Schwartz, Dave participated in the production of both local and nationally-syndicated television programs at a variety of broadcast organizations in the Boston market.
Dave has a B.S. in Communications from Boston University
Dave Close has been leading communications campaigns in the technology industry since 1981. During the early 1980s, he was a writer and editor at World Information Systems, Inc. He researched and wrote stories for industry newsletter Electronics Insight and contributed sections on manufacturing, transportation, computing and energy to The Science Almanac.
In 1983, Close joined Digital Equipment Corporation and for the next 11 years he held a series of positions as a group communications manager and executive speechwriter. During his time with Digital, Close led communications teams handling advertising, PR and writing in the personal computers, workstations and UNIX organizations.
Close joined Schwartz Communications in 1994 as one of the first senior-level executives in the then-fledging agency. Throughout his career as Schwartz, he has led more than 60 client teams, created and directed the agency's "Schwartz College" training program and led the agency's new business efforts. He also serves as mentor and advisor for several agency vice presidents.
Close is one of the agency's resident experts on manufacturing technologies, energy/utilities and environmental technology, open source software, aviation and transportation, compliance and business ethics.
Close continues to lead client teams, creating PR strategies, pitching the media and helping his teams generate media results. He is known for ghostwriting bylines and "think pieces" for his clients' executives and has won several awards for this work. In his role as "brain trust" advisor, Close also provides insight and advice to a variety of clients beyond his direct assignments. As the leader of the Schwartz Communications National Multiple Sclerosis Society PR team, he directs the pro bono efforts of a large group of agency volunteers that has substantially increased MS fundraising in Massachusetts during the past four years.
A life-long avid cyclist, Close bicycles more than 5,000 miles per year and has been progressing through his goal list to ride up the highest mountains in New England. He is married with two children and lives in Sudbury, Mass.
Davida Dinerman has been a member of the Schwartz Communications team since 1996. For a majority of her tenure, she has been well entrenched in the Security, Healthcare IT and Services Practice groups. Additionally, she offers value in other technologies, from storage and networking to green tech.
Davida and her teams couple creative strategies with an aggressive, hands-on approach to power hit clients into targeted trade, technology, business and social media. In her position, Davida oversees strategic and tactical activities of her teams and interacts with clients on a daily basis. She also generates news and feature stories in media at all levels, facilitates analyst relations and handles speaking opportunities for her clients. Davida has developed content for marketing collateral and ghost-written bylines for senior executives, as well as written blog posts for the agency and her clients.
Several of Davida's teams have earned PR industry awards, including the Mercury Award for Response to Breaking News, and the Bell Ringer Award for Best Response to Breaking News and Print Feature/Commentary Placement in a Trade Publication.
For six years, Davida coordinated and managed one of Schwartz Communication's primary training programs, Schwartz College, where she not only developed curriculum, but also taught sessions. This training program, where people learn and share knowledge, is one of the reasons why Schwartz Communications remains such a strong and impactful PR agency.
Davida earned her MBA with a concentration in management from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and her BA degree in psychology from Dartmouth College. She lives in Ashland, Mass. with her husband and two children, and is an avid and competitive tennis player.
Deepika Bharadwa is an account supervisor in the Schwartz Communications London office. Deepika has broad experience working with various areas of security and business to business solutions ranging from open source, CRM, desktop and server management, access control, auditing, web application security, SaaS security to regulations and compliance such as PCI DSS, the Data Protection Act, ITIL and WEEE. She has also previously worked with White & Black Legal, a technology and corporate specialist law firm and Breach Security, a web application firewall solution provider.
Catering for a UK market, where publications are in need of content, Deepika regularly creates and writes stories for the media on behalf of her clients. On a daily basis, she secures media coverage for her clients in SC Magazine, Fresh Thinking Business, European Business Express, Growing Business, Real Business, Microscope, CRN, IT Pro, Computerworld UK, Risk UK, Infosecurity, e-Health Insider, the Register, IT Week and Computer Weekly. She has also secured coverage in national newspapers such as the Guardian, The Times, The Independent and FT: Digital Business.
Deepika's previous experience includes working with the BBC Leicester as an online writer eventually turning to business to business (writing news and interest rate predictions as well as creating campaigns for Birmingham Forward, a regional lobby group comprising of Birmingham business leaders) business to consumer (Bets4Traders, Dunelm Mill, Ask.com) and technology PR (Link ATM, Zycko), where she handled professional and financial services and lifestyle sector accounts.
Deepika graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Leicester.
Doug Russell brings eighteen years of agency and corporate communications experience to the role of vice president. A Schwartz Communications veteran since 1997, Doug is a leader in the firms' Healthcare IT, Mobile, Networking and Telecom and Business Software & Services practice groups.
Doug's clients have included start-ups that rose to positions of market leadership to billion+ dollar business units of established companies such as Staples, Inc., Schneider Electric, Honeywell International and GE. His particular areas of expertise include message development, thought leadership campaigns, orchestrating company, product and service launches and high-level business media outreach. Doug's teams have won numerous industry awards, including several Publicity Club of New England Bell Ringer's, as well as ADWEEK Magazine's ICON Award for Corporate Branding Objectives.
Doug earned a B.A. in International Relations/History from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is married and has an eight year old son, Nathaniel.
Throughout her eight years at Schwartz Communications, Erin Del Llano has helped technology companies differentiate themselves and succeed in competitive markets through targeted and aggressive public relations programs. Del Llano has experience working with a variety of enterprise software and hardware companies and is also a member of the agency's expanding renewable energy and green practice.
Del Llano's IT expertise spans a range of technologies including networking, storage, information security, supply chain and mobile infrastructure. Del Llano's efforts have achieved demonstrable results for her clients, which have included early-stage companies such as VirtualLogix, Vormetric, Enkata and Aldata as well as established public companies such as Fujitsu, Xyratex, Honeywell and Pitney Bowes MapInfo. Del Llano managed Schwartz's PR program for MapInfo leading up to and following Pitney Bowes' acquisition of the company for $408 million.
Whether it's through educating the market on emerging virtualization software or new developments in disk drive products, Del Llano has secured coverage for her clients in Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, Time and USA Today. In addition to reaching general and investor audiences through business press, Del Llano and the teams she leads consistently secure client coverage in tier one IT outlets and key vertical publications including those in the retail, banking, insurance and government industries.
Through her leadership of Global Solar Energy's public relations program, Del Llano has helped the solar cell maker stand out from its competitors by highlighting the company's long-standing success, unique technology and superior manufacturing process. Within 30 days of starting the account, Del Llano and the Schwartz team secured stories in Associated Press, Reuters, WSJ.com, CNET, NYTimes.com, Scientific American CleanTech, Earth2Tech and EETimes.
Del Llano holds a B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies from Boston College.
Helen Shik joined Schwartz Communications in 1996. She has more than 15 years of experience in public relations helping emerging-growth companies launch new therapies with high-impact media coverage.
At Schwartz, Shik has worked with many of the agency's medical device, biotechnology and healthcare IT clients, including Heartstream (now Philips Medical), Northstar Neuroscience, Hologic, Haemonetics, Cyberonics, Proxima Therapeutics (now Hologic), Neuromonics, Home Diagnostics, EnteroMedics, Calypso Medical, Wright Medical, C. R. Bard Urology, Sanarus Medical, Pheromone Sciences, Agencourt, PHT Corp., PerkinElmer Life Sciences and Phase Forward. In addition to developing positioning that resonates with the media and mentoring junior staff on media relations tactics, Helen works directly with senior reporters and producers and has secured coverage of her clients in outlets such as the CBS Evening News, Dateline NBC, the Today Show, CNN, CNBC, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Parade, Reader's Digest, The Associated Press, The Dow Jones, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe and Fast Company.
Helen has extensive experience working with the broadcast media, and has helped many clients launch newly FDA-approved therapies. Helen and her teams have won a long list of industry awards, including several Bell Ringer, Communicator and Bulldog Awards.
Prior to joining Schwartz, Helen worked in the PR group of Lehman Millet, a medical marketing agency, where she launched the first diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease and worked with a local biotech company developing oral vaccines. At Cudaback Strategic Communications, she worked with a wide range of clients, including a medical device company with the first robotic solution for hip replacement surgery, The Smithsonian Institution, Computerworld, PCWorld and Arthur D. Little, Inc.
She earned a B.A. in political science from Boston University in 1987. She served for several years on the board ofthe Publicity Club of New England. She is a current member ofthe Healthcare Communication & Marketing Association and a member of the board of directors of Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley. She can be found on soccer field sidelines every weekend, rooting for her sons.
Twitter: @HelenShik
Based in San Francisco, Jason is an executive vice president and directs Schwartz's fast-growing Cleantech & Green PR Practice. In his 12 years with Schwartz, Jason has planned, managed and executed award-winning communications programs to help his clients increase lead and demand generation, boost valuation, improve brand awareness, establish executives as industry thought leaders, optimize web presences, and secure government funding and private equity investment. His experience goes beyond traditional PR, having managed a number of integrated public relations, government relations and search-engine marketing campaigns.
In 2006 - recognizing the immense PR and policy challenges facing the emerging cleantech industry - Jason spearheaded the launch of the firm's Cleantech & Green Practice. Schwartz's history of successfully representing underdog companies and creating new markets, combined with its results-oriented approach to public relations, government relations and digital media, made it a natural fit for companies facing heavily entrenched energy interests and trying to change long-established consumption behaviors. Today, just four years after formally launching the practice, Schwartz has one of the largest Cleantech & Green Practices comprised of close to 30 clients.
Jason's Cleantech experience includes working with and launching emerging market leaders in solar, greenhouse gas management and environmental compliance, Green IT, wind, green building, lighting controls and biofuels. Representative client experience includes Aurora, Inc., AWS Truepower, Borrego Solar, Canadian Solar,Daintree Networks, Elster Group, Enviance, Gevo, Joule,Oerlikon Solar, Picarro and Skyline Solar.
Jason began his career at Schwartz working with some of Schwartz's most innovative enterprise technology clients including webMethods, Netezza, Vivisimo and Qualys. For a number of years, he helped co-lead the firm's Security Practice helping to establish it as the largest Security PR Practice in North America. Today, he continues to support the Agency's Consumer and Financial Services Practice Groups through work with RetailMeNot and SharesPost.
Jason is an active contributor to Schwartz's Green blog, Renewablog, which explores news, public policy and market developments that impact the role of the Cleantech and Green marketer. Prior to Schwartz, Morris worked at The Weber Group on the Bacardi and TJX accounts and at Fox Sports New England. He holds a B.S. in marketing from Bentley College.
Twitter: @jasonmorris
Jill Reed brings more than 10 years of public relations experience to her role as director. Since joining Schwartz in 2006, she has worked with business-to-business and consumer technology clients to develop strategic public relations programs that deliver the right results at the right time.
Jill manages account teams, oversees plan execution and serves as the primary client contact. Current and past Schwartz clients include Aspera Inc., Breach Security, Cool Earth Solar, DocuSign, ESET, Layer 7 Technologies and WhitePages.com. At Schwartz, she has executed PR programs to launch startups, reposition companies, introduce products, manage analyst relations, and drive ongoing media awareness and exposure. She has secured favorable client coverage in leading media outlets, including BusinessWeek, Dow Jones, Forbes, NBC Nightly News, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, among others.
Prior to joining Schwartz, Jill was a senior manager of public relations at Inktomi Corp. She was also a founding member of the San Francisco office of Ruder Finn, where she was responsible for building the client base and serving as an account supervisor for a variety of technology companies. At GCI Group, she managed PR activities for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Iomega and Panasonic. Jill started her career in public relations representing national consumer brands at Publicis Public Relations.
Jill received a master's in English from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and a bachelor's in French from San Diego State University with a minor in international politics.
Jim joined Schwartz Communications in 1998. As a leader of the Schwartz healthcare practice, Jim counsels clients on strategy and messaging for corporate and product communications campaigns as well as crisis and issues management across a broad range of industry sectors, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, molecular medicine and medical devices.
Jim is also an accomplished media relations professional, and has placed client medical breakthroughs and trend developments in dozens of high-level consumer, business and professional outlets, including Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, ABC World News Tonight, the BBC, CNN, Newsweek, USA Today and The New York Times.
During his tenure at Schwartz, Jim has represented companies and organizations such as PowderMed Vaccines (Pfizer), West Pharmaceutical Services, Micromet, BioMS Medical, Biogen-IDEC, NxStage Medical, Bayer HealthCare, WL Gore & Associates, Proxima Therapeutics and the Institute for International Research.
Jim has led award-winning national and global campaigns to condition markets for medical advances still in development, infuse mature product lines with renewed excitement, and launch new innovations that build sales, valuation and market leadership. Campaigns that Jim has led at Schwartz include the launch of a novel five-day radiation treatment for breast cancer, positioning DNA-based vaccines as a viable solution for a Bird Flu pandemic, building visibility for pre-clinical research in antiangiogenesis for metastatic cancer, accelerating clinical trial enrollment for a potentially breakthrough multiple sclerosis drug, introducing a new therapy for the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding and raising awareness of emerging diagnostics for Parkinson's Disease and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The four-year-long touring exhibition of headache pain-inspired artwork that Jim previously orchestrated for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (Novartis), designed to expand the population of migraine sufferers who seek professional treatment, is a healthcare public relations textbook study.
Jim is also a co-founder of the government relations practice at Schwartz, and spearheaded a successful, two-year-long crisis communications and disaster recovery response to an accidental factory explosion that cost lives and destroyed a client's medical product manufacturing factory.
Account teams and campaigns led by Jim have won many of the PR industry's most prestigious awards, including an unprecedented three "Best of Show" Super Bell Awards.
Prior to Schwartz, Weinrebe was a senior vice president at a healthcare marketing boutique, for whom he developed a thriving public relations practice and launched a business unit that accelerates recruitment of patients for global clinical research studies.
A graduate of Cornell University, Jim is the father of two daughters and a long-time resident of Newton, MA.
John Moran, director and executive media coaching specialist
Since joining Schwartz in 2000, John has represented technology companies in a variety of market sectors, including application development & integration, open source, software security, semiconductors and peer-to-peer (P2P).
He also serves as Schwartz Communications' media coaching specialist, working closely with top executives on message development, preparation and presentation skills.
Prior to joining Schwartz, John spent 14 years as a radio talk show host, producer and writer.
Twitter: @jfmoran
Since joining Schwartz Communications in 1999, Julie Goldman has had experience with a wide variety of technology, healthcare IT and medical companies, ranging from public corporations to IPO-stage companies to start-ups. An account director, she is a key member of the agency's healthcare IT practice and has a strong background in consumer technology and personal finance.
Julie's media coverage and creativity have impacted her clients' businesses and played a key role in the agency garnering prestigious awards. Honors include several Silver Anvil Awards, the highest honor in the PR industry; Gold and Silver Bulldog Awards, which are judged by working journalists; and multiple Bell Ringer Awards from the Publicity Club of New England.
Julie earned her B.A. from Boston College, as a double major in Communications and Theatre Arts. She lives in Framingham, Mass., with her husband and new son.
Twitter: @juliegoldman
Kimberly Angell has a broad public relations background that crosses several technology industries, such as security, open source, networking, telecommunications and retail. Since joining Schwartz in 2003, her contributions have included PR strategy development, day-to-day program management and collaborating with her teams to launch creative campaigns around new and existing products and services.
Angell has played an integral role in building and strengthening Schwartz's security and open source practices. Leveraging experience with communications and security software companies, including AirTouch (now Verizon Wireless), Network ICE and Internet Security Systems, Angell has worked with emerging-growth players such as ScanSafe and Talend and worked with such companies as SpringSource, Blue Coat, CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing), Citadel (acquired by McAfee), PKWARE and Qualys.
Under her leadership, Angell's teams have raised their clients' profiles through speaking opportunities at respected industry events such as RSA, Interop, CSI and InfoSec, and with awards recognition with outlets such as the Inc. 5000 and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE awards.
Angell's strong media relations experience has enabled her to identify unique story angles and secure consistent coverage across both business and trade media, including Network World, eWeek, InformationWeek, ABCNews.com, the Associated Press, Financial Times, Red Herring, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Newsweek, Investor's Business Daily and CNET.
In her previous position as a marketing manager for ISS, Angell developed content and managed schedules for all West Coast marketing programs, including sponsorships, speaking opportunities, user groups, seminars and events. Under her management, the company enjoyed the most successful seminar program in its history, executed in 50 cities in six months with an average of 100 attendees per city. As a me