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I've been communicating across a broad range of media for 25+ years -- in online content management, technology conference production, as a media relations executive and as a news reporter, editor and foreign correspondent.
I was Vice-President and Senior Account Director from 2004-09 at The Pen Group Communications in Miami, where in addition to managing media relations for client accounts that included Forum Nokia, Nokia Latin America, Avanquest Software and others, I developed and deployed the first social media client newsroom of any South Florida public relations agency. I got my start in media relations during the dot.com era as defacto inhouse media liaison at Miami-based tech startups 1hemisphere.com and Latin Venture Partners, where as a member of executive management I directed online content development, research and editorial services.
Since late-2009, I've owned and operated my own agency, media mindshare, offering social media, editorial content and media relations services to client organisations on both sides of the Atlantic. From the mid-1980s through 2000, I covered political and business news throughout Latin America, including a dozen years based in Mexico City. My business and finance news coverage has appeared in Institutional Investor, Latin Finance and Market News International. I got my start in technology writing on the unbundling and privatization of state-owned utilities and telecoms operators from Mexico to Argentina for Infrastructure Finance magazine and as Latin America Regional Editor & Senior Analyst for Informa Telecoms & Media newsletters.
A dual Irish & U.S. national, born and raised in California, I am fluent in English and Spanish, speak some Italian and a bit of Portuguese. I am also author of the book Mexico at the Crossroads and hold a Master's degree in Latin American Studies. |
