About PondelWilkinson PR company in Los Angeles, United States
Roger Pondels professional expertise focuses on developing communications strategies and tactics for publicly owned and privately held companies in various industries including professional and financial services firms. He has been the architect of programs involving sensitive corporate issues including mergers and acquisitions crises litigation support and labor matters as well as serving as day-to-day corporate public relations and investor relations counsel.
A Chicago native Pondel was named president of the firm in 1986. His previous experience includes serving as communications and investor relations director of several large publicly traded corporations where responsibilities included both corporate/financial communications and investor relations. Pondel also was a reporter with the San Jose Mercury News.
Pondel earned a bachelors degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications California State University San Jose. He is a frequent guest speaker on investor relations and strategic public relations issues.
Laurie Berman has counseled executive management teams on positioning their companies to Wall Street for more than 20 years. She also has been actively involved in related corporate communications and internal communications matters.
Berman has represented an extensive array of businesses from pre-IPO to blue-chip on investor relations and corporate communications strategies including financial reporting investor perceptions and expectations valuation disclosure crisis and employee communications media strategy and mergers and acquisitions.
Having joined PondelWilkinson in 2006 Bermans experience includes eight years in New York and Los Angeles with Financial Relations Board and serving as investor relations director of Overture a high-profile publicly traded technology company that was subsequently acquired by Yahoo! where she was responsible for managing all of the companys investor relations activities. She previously served in a variety of management positions with Institutional Investor magazine.
George Medici brings 20 years of strategic public relations and media relations experience to PondelWilkinson. He is responsible for leveraging strategic partnerships to support the firms growth initiatives. A big idea thinker with ’hands-on’ experience implementing national local and trade strategic PR campaigns Medicis work reaches across multiple industry sectors as well as corporate/financial public affairs and issues management disciplines.
Medici is an expert strategist and publicist on the changing media landscape particularly the fusion of traditional and social media. He is adept at helping organizations from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies create or reposition their profiles within the top-tier U.S. business media specializing in message development to influence core audiences. A savvy crisis communications counselor and excellent oral and written communicator Medici also is a seasoned media trainer of CEOs and senior executives.
Prior to joining the firm in 2010 Medici served as director and vice president of national media business strategies at Porter Novelli in New York. At this global public relations firm he provided strategic business and financial media counsel for Amgen British Airways Hewlett-Packard Procter amp; Gamble QUALCOMM and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals among others.
A member of the PondelWilkinson team since 1997 Sfetcu oversees the investor relations activities for a number of the firms long-time clients. She also serves in a managerial role overseeing PondelWilkinsons financial operations and human resources.
Joy Scott is the founder and CEO of Scott Public Relations an award-winning boutique public relations agency specializing in healthcare insurance and technology serving clients in those industries around the world.
Joy and the team at Scott PR are driven by a passion to make a difference. They actively seeks out innovators and ’best-of-breed’ companies that improve the well-being of their clients and consumers. Then with insight and influence they guide these organization to deliver maximum impact in their markets – driving sales reputation and growth with a blend of strategic thinking relentless pursuit of results and diplomacy.
Successful campaigns on behalf of established and emerging companies have led the agency to a leadership position serving the business-to-business communication needs of firms in insurance healthcare and technology from Fortune 500 firms to start-ups for the past 25 years. The innovations that Scott Public Relations has helped launch range from managed care and hospital medicine to concierge medicine the adoption of evidence-based medical guidelines and telemedicine.
A graduate of UCLAs prestigious executive M.B.A. program Joy Scott combines her marketing skills with expertise in business and management to provide a strategic approach to programs that directly impact a companys bottom line. In addition to the M.B.A. she also earned a Masters in Psychology and a Bachelors degree in English and history summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa at Arizona State University.
Mark Bilfield has more than 30 years of corporate marketing and ad agency executive experience at TBWAChiatDay and Saatchi amp; Saatchi. He is well respected for his innate business savvy strategic acumen integrated marketing programs creative ability and most important helping companies grow their revenue in a disciplined and measurable manner.
He is a strategic advisor to Kure it Cancer Research. Bilfield has served as the president and chairman of the LA Ad Agency Association and chair of the 4As West Coast Interactive Committee.
Bilfield earned a bachelors degree in fine arts from the New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury.
PondelWilkinson Inc. is a leading investor relations and strategic public relations firm that has earned a national reputation for innovative aggressive professional service.
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