About Bloom PR PR company in Fort Lauderdale, United States
Dave founded the agency 15 years ago. His journalism career included WSVN-TV (FOX) in Miami and WPBF-TV (ABC) in the Palm Beaches as a TV news anchor reporter producer and bureau chief. CNN and other national news networks frequently called on Dave to contribute stories. Publications including the Harvard Business Review and PR Week often quote Dave in their stories. He is proud of his exceptional team of former print and broadcast journalists with extensive agency experience.
’Dave Bloom is truly one of the most talented hard-working PR professionals I have ever had the good fortune to work with. He is a legend in South Florida. When I was director of business development at Florida Medical Center he ran rings around every other PR firm.’
– Sue Baron Development Officer Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation
Daves work has been honored by a number of organizations including the Classroom Teachers Association and the Florida Highway Patrol.
Chris MacDonald - Digital Marketing Director
Chris has managed online strategy and digital marketing buys for Fortune 500 companies (Marriott Berkshire Hathaway-owned Dairy Queen) Latin America-based businesses and small businesses. Chris#39;s interest areas include geofencing programmatic display programmatic video and conversion tracking. Prior to joining Bloom PR Chris spent several years as a digital marketing specialist. He has overseen social media SEO and pay-per-click agencies for a national real estate brand managed Twitter campaigns for Dairy Queen and developed social media strategy for CBS 4 Miami.
Chris began his career as an on-camera meteorologist and news reporter spending 6 years at television stations in Kentucky Mississippi Texas and Florida.
Gerald Alpern - Sr. Account Manager
Gerald Alpern has spent the majority of his 38-year career in the sports entertainment and special events industry working for or representing teams and major events. His responsibilities and expertise is in marketing sales promotion and public relations. His client experience includes Ringling Bros. and Barnum @ Bailey Circus; Disney on Ice; The Kentucky Derby; The Miss Universe Pageant: The US Open; The Tall Ships: The Nations Parade - 50th Anniversary WWII; World Championships; All Star Games; CONCACAF - Gold Cup; Major League Soccer; The New England Patriots; Olympic Trials; The Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Jazz Festival and many others.
Gerald began his career in the news and sports departments of WVIT-TV and WFSB-TV in Hartford CT as well as WELI radio in New Haven CT and WRKO radio in Boston.
Emmett Hamilton - Video Production Manager
As the lead video project editor Emmett plans composites and edits video content created by Bloom PR. Think of him as a video craftsman building a visual masterpiece of information and entertainment. He loves a challenge and has a genuine passion for his work.
After graduating from the Southwest University of Visual Arts in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in Animation Emmett went to work for ad agency Tucci Creative. While there Emmett created radio commercial video documentaries print ads web content and award-winning television commercials. His work has been shown on numerous location local TV stations in Arizona such as KGUN KVOA and KOLD. His work has also been featured on several radio stations such as KRQQ KOHT and KWFM.
When not editing Emmett enjoys time with his family creating animation and painting.
