Joan Cear
Managing Director
G.S. Schwartz & Co.
Joan Cear is managing director and head of the consumer practice at G.S. Schwartz & Co. Inc., leading mid-sized, New York City public relations agency. Joan was previously president and owner of The Wachsman Cear Group, another New York-based PR agency that merged with G.S. Schwartz & Co. in 2001.
At G.S. Schwartz & Co., Joan is responsible for strategic planning and public relations program development and implementation for a wide range of clients including Anheuser-Busch, UTStarcom, Cold-Eeze, Pressman Toy, eToys Direct, Magners Irish Cider, Walkerswood Caribbean Foods and others. Joan also has an integral role in the agency’s new business development.
Joan’s previous agency, The Wachsman Cear Group, was founded in 1957 as David S. Wachsman Associates Inc. Joan acquired the firm from the founder in 1998. Prior to joining Wachsman Associates in 1990, Joan was a media relations specialist for Long Island Lighting Company. She is also a former print and broadcast journalist.
Joan has served on the Student Affairs Committee of New York Women in Communications for more than five years. During this time, NYWICI Student Affairs developed a separate student membership category and specific programs geared toward students; launched a student member email newsletter, NYWICINext; grown its NYWICI Foundation Scholarships to $100,000 in awards to 16 students; and much more.
In addition to her service to NYWICI, Joan is a member of the boards of directors of Educational Housing Services, Inc., Peninsula Counseling Center and New York SCORES. She also belongs to the Publicity Club of New York. Joan has a B.A. in communications from the State University of New York at Oswego.
Kristine Welker
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Hearst Magazines Digital Media
Kristine Welker was named Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Hearst Magazines Digital Media in February 2008. In this role, Welker oversees the digital sales and marketing departments and will help incorporate online media into Hearst’s print properties’ advertising offerings Prior to this, Welker was the founding Publisher of CosmoGIRL!, which launched in 1999. Welker was named Vice President in 2004. Since its launch, CosmoGIRL! has received many awards including Adweek’s 2003 Magazine “Hot List”, Ad Age’s 2003 “A List” and winner of AWNY’s “Good” Award for the magazine’s Born To Lead campaign for three consecutive years.
Previously, Welker worked at Ladies Home Journal 1988-1999 where she held various positions in advertising, from Sales Manager to Ad Director. Prior to her publishing career she worked at Wells Rich Greene Advertising.
Welker can be credited with growing CosmoGIRL! beyond the pages of the magazine through innovative initiatives including the annual “Born to Lead” awards, an event that recognizes young people and their accomplishments; the “Kiss of Approval” awards, which highlights the best in beauty, fashion and entertainment; the first-ever CosmoGIRL! “Born to Lead Design Search,” a joint project with the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology; and other brand extensions including the CosmoGIRL! Beach House experiential marketing tour, CosmoGIRL! Prom, and CG! Mobile Welker is a graduate of Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY and currently serves as Marymount Annual Fund Chair. Some of Welker’s other affiliations include being a member of the Cosmetic Executive Women’s Association, Advertising Women of New York, New York Women in Communications, and she is actively involved in the Fragrance Foundation’s Career Day. Welker also participates annually with P.E.N.C.I.L. (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning) in the Principal For A Day Program.
Welker lives in Edgemont, NY with her husband and three children.
Nancy Megan
Promotion Management
Nancy comes from the worlds of advertising and magazine publishing, including a number of advertising agencies and 27 years at Time Inc. For TIME and Sports Illustrated she served in various executive promotion and public affairs roles, in which she directed advertising promotion, special events, the famous TIME international news tours for advertisers, industry conferences and corporate involvement in the arts. She was President, and then served professionally for two years as Executive Director, for Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) before going on her own.
A graduate of Wellesley College with a BA in Music, she has sat on the board of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the American Symphony Orchestra, and The Dwelling Place, a women’s shelter in New York. Along with industry work, Nancy does occasional free-lance promotion projects under banner, Promotion Management. For NYWICI, of which she’s been a member since 1986, she has periodically been on the board as VP Finance since 1992, currently manages the content for the website and coordinates development for the Matrix Awards luncheons. She directed the establishment of the NYWICI Foundation in 2000, and also serves as its VP Finance.
Cameron Blanchard
SVP Communications, Bravo & Oxygen
NBC Universal
Gail Blanke
President & CEO
Gail Blanke's Lifedesigns
Gail Blanke is founder, president, and chief executive officer of Lifedesigns, LLC, a company whose vision is to empower men and women worldwide to live truly exceptional lives. The company was created by Ms. Blanke in March 1995 as a division of Avon Products, Inc., and has since earned significant praise for producing breakthrough results through corporate and public workshops. Lifedesigns was spun off from Avon in March of 1997 and acquired by Ms. Blanke.
An executive coach and best selling author, Ms. Blanke's last book, In My Wildest Dreams: Living the Life You Long For was published by Simon & Schuster in June, 1998. The book has appeared on Amazon.com's Best Selling Books list and the New York Times Business Best Seller List. Ms. Blanke was the sole guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show in October 1998 where she used concepts from her book to help empower audience members to live fulfilling lives. Ms. Blanke's first book, Taking Control of Your Life: The Secrets of Successful Enterprising Women, sold more than a half million copies. Currently, she's writing, Between Trapezes: Flying into Your Next Life to be published by Rodale next spring.
Considered one of the finest motivational speakers in the country, she has delivered keynote addresses for many corporations and at events such as the "Global Summit of Women" in Taiwan, the "Decade to Democracy" conference in Budapest and Cornell University's symposium, "Contracting Out: Danger Signal for Working Women and Men" chaired by Betty Friedan. In addition to the Oprah Winfrey Show, Ms. Blanke has appeared on CNN, FNN, CNBC and Fox TV. Articles about Ms. Blanke and her company have appeared in Newsweek, Ladies' Home Journal, The Wall Street Journal, Redbook and Executive Female.
Ms. Blanke was one of the youngest female senior vice presidents of Avon Products, Inc., where, in addition to her responsibilities as global head of corporate affairs, she motivated and inspired Avon's half million sales representatives to live the lives of their wildest dreams. A member of the Chairman's Executive Council, she led the re-positioning of Avon as the world's premier direct selling company for women and launched the widely acclaimed Avon Breast Cancer Awareness Crusade, which has raised more than $25 million for community outreach programs. Prior to joining Avon, Ms. Blanke was vice president of public relations for Allen & Dorward Advertising in New York where she managed the National Football League Properties account. Previously, Ms. Blanke held several executive positions at CBS, Inc. including manager of special promotions for the New York Yankees. Spotlighted in the New York Times and interviewed on numerous radio talk shows, Ms. Blanke was the only woman to hold a "front office" position in major league baseball.
Linda Buckley
Vice President, Media Relations
Tiffany & Co.
Linda Buckley is vice president of media relations for Tiffany & Co. In this capacity, she is responsible for all consumer media relations, including product placements, and press activities across all product categories. She also serves as the company’s spokesperson to the consumer and jewelry industry press.
Ms. Buckley joined Tiffany & Co. in 1995. She was appointed director of publicity in 1997 and promoted to vice president in 2003. Over her 15-year career in the public relations field, she also held management positions at the Diamond Information Center, the communications agency for DeBeers, and at marketing and public relations firms such as Fleishman-Hillard, where she executed strategic communications programs for fashion, publishing and lifestyle clients.
Ms. Buckley graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. An active participant in business affairs, Ms. Buckley is a member of the board of directors of the Jewelry Information Center and New York Women in Communications.
Jeanne-Marie Byington
President
JM Byington & Assoc., Inc.
Jeanne-Marie Byington—Jeanne—is an award-winning public relations and marketing consultant with experience in both major and moderate sized agencies. Her boutique PR agency, celebrating its 13th year, has conducted successful campaigns for international corporations, family-owned businesses, associations and startups.
Service is one of Jeanne’s lifelong passions and is the topic of her blog, “The Importance of Earnest Service,” blog.jmbyington.com. She covers lessons learned and observed from the superlative to the neglectful and welcomes others’ experiences. She interprets the service word well beyond its customer affiliation to cover people and organizations that serve others, the service of tradition and much more.
Jeanne was on the New York Women in Communications board as co-chair membership for four years, on the scholarship committee for three, the Matrix Awards Luncheon committee and on this year’s nominations committee.
A member of Baruch College’s Executives on Campus mentoring initiative for three years, she will chair the school’s graduate corporate communications mentoring program in the fall.
A longtime past member of the national and New York boards of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) and former trustee of the IFDA Educational Foundation, she received IFDA’s Honorary Recognition Award and the Circle of Excellence Award in the public relations/advertising category.
Cate Carley
Regional Sales Director, New York
AOL Advertising
While some advertisers sell the Brand, Cate actually lives the Brand. As Regional Sales Director for AOL Advertising in New York, Cate oversees the Health and Women’s Lifestyle vertical sales team. AOL has over 7 different sites that range from Food to Parenting to Style in the women’s offering. As an executive and a mother, she knows first hand how many roles women play in their daily lives and she is able to extend that knowledge to create and sell innovative campaigns that provide businesses solutions and help brands reach their audience.
Since Cate joined AOL Advertising and headed the women’s lifestyle sales arm of AOL Living – revenue has increased 60% year-over-year and has launched programs with major advertisers including Kellogg’s, Tylenol, GMC, Target and more. She is able to develop innovative campaigns and sell against them so that the advertisers reach their target consumers in an active and engaged method. Cate knows that as the Web becomes more fragmented, digital advertising has to speak clearly to audiences who expect more sophistication and transparency from the media they area consuming. Cate is able to put herself in the consumers’ shoes and really understand what is going to be effective.
Prior to her role at AOL Advertising, Cate was the National Sales Director for Real Simple where she oversaw digital media. Under her leadership, Real Simple launched the TLC television show Real Life. She was responsible for the digital packages for the TV show, and sold-out all available premium inventory and double their sales revenue year-over-year.
Previously, she was the Health/Pharma Sales Director at AOL Media Networks, where she was responsible for setting Health/Pharma sale strategies for the AOL sales team. She also served as the Sales Director, Targeted Media, at Time Inc., where she expanded the healthcare business by quickly guiding clients and internal resources to focus on the best use of the “Waiting Room” program in the Pharma sector.
Prior to joining Time Warner, Carley enjoyed great success on the agency account side delivering strategic, relevant and ownable campaigns to clients at Thomas Ferguson Associates – a division of CommonHealth, the world's leading healthcare communications resource and a WPP Group company. She managed the account and creative teams for several high-profile Pharma accounts such as Claritin/Clarinex (Schering-Plough) and Sporanox & Nizoral (Johnson & Johnson).
Before CommonHealth, Carley worked at GTFH (now Grey Healthcare) on the Bristol-Myers Squibb account on both the professional advertising and educational side of marketing and educational efforts. Her team managed a peer-to-peer physician education program – a new product – that resulted in a 2-to-1 adoption over competitive products.
Cate is and always has been a leader. She served as Councilwoman for her hometown, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her role at AOL Advertising allows her to put her creativity, humor and intellect and to use everyday. Never one to back down from a challenge, Cate is constantly working with her Sales team to create new initiatives and fight for ad dollars in this increasingly tough economy. As she juggles a 24 hour work day both in and out of the home, she is always smiling and always willing to lend a hand to a friend and coworker in need.
Catherine L. Carlozzi
Business Writer
Catherine L. Carlozzi is a communications professional with nearly 30 years of experience in corporate, agency, and consulting environments. Her specialty is business-to-business communications and speechwriting. Her recent clients have included American Express Publishing, The Ayers Group, Deloitte, Donna Karan International, FORTUNE magazine, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Microsoft, MONEY magazine, and Trilogy Software.
Before establishing her writing/communications consulting business in 1991, Carlozzi was vice president and manager of special projects for Brown Boxenbaum, a full-service PR agency in New York City. She also served as associate national director of publications at Laventhol & Horwath, the former national CPA and consulting firm based in Philadelphia.
Carlozzi was a regular contributor to The Journal of Accountancy from 1997-99. In addition to writing under her own byline, she has ghostwritten articles that have appeared in Strategy & Leadership, Across the Board, Public Relations Tactics, Public Relations Quarterly, Internal Communications Focus, and Broker World.
An active member of NYWICI since 1992, she served on the organization’s board for six years, as vice president of membership and then programs, before moving to the foundation board in 2005. She cochaired the Matrix Program Committee from 1998-99 and went on to serve on the Matrix Committee as an adviser and as board liaison. Carlozzi received the Liz Hoover Award for outstanding service in 1999.
She was honored by Bloomfield College in 2006 for her mentoring work with communications student, by the Montclair Art Museum in 2000 with its Directors Award, and by the YWCA of Montclair-North Essex in 1995 as one of "50 Women You Should Know."
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a master's degree in English cum laude, Carlozzi taught in the university's undergraduate program. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Denison University summa cum laude.
Judith Czelusniak
Chief Communications Officer
Bloomberg L.P.
Judith Czelusniak is chief communications officer of Bloomberg L.P., the global financial information and news company.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Judith was Senior Vice President-Corporate Relations at Tyco International where she managed Corporate Marketing and Corporate Communications. There she was responsible for branding, corporate identity, public relations and corporate advertising. Judith was previously Vice President-Corporate Relations at AGCO Corporation, managing Corporate Marketing and Corporate Communications and internal communications.
Judith has consulted to corporations, boards, business leaders and industry organizations as a senior manager at the public relations agency Hill and Knowlton, the investor relations firm Morgen-Walke Associates and The Dilenschneider Group consulting firm.
Judith received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Atlanta's Oglethorpe University.
Susan Goodall
Editorial Development Director
Glamour Magazine
Condé Nast
Dana Beth Hagendorf
Vice President of Marketing
Audemars Piguet (North America) Inc.
Dana Hagendorf is Vice President of Marketing for Audemars Piguet North America, one of the world’s oldest watch manufacturers never to have left the hands of its founding families. In this role, Dana manages the marketing, advertising, and public relations efforts for the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining Audemars Piguet, Ms. Hagendorf established strong luxury brand experience in both the hospitality and automotive sectors. In her most recent position at St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, she served as the brand’s Senior Director of Marketing, developing the global marketing strategy for 12 St. Regis hotels worldwide. Dana was also instrumental in the openings of the San Francisco, Bora Bora, and Fort Lauderdale properties. Prior to St. Regis, Ms. Hagendorf was the Director of Marketing and Communications at BMW in New York City, where she had regional marketing and advertising responsibility for BMW cars and motorcycles, and executed the launch of the MINI Cooper. As a Global Marketing Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ms. Hagendorf’s team was responsible for creating the firm’s new global corporate identity during the company’s merger.
Ms. Hagendorf earned an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS with Honors from Cornell University. Currently, Dana lives in New York City and serves on the Board of the New York Women in Communications Foundation. She is also active with both City Harvest and Share Our Strength.
Beth-Ellen Keyes
Managing Director
SpeakerSpace
As a corporate communications professional, Beth-Ellen has strategic experience across many industries, including entertainment, internet and new media, publishing, financial services, healthcare and telecommunications. Her particular skills include conference development and corporate event management, advertising and promotion, marketing communications and marketing strategy, public relations, media outreach and corporate sponsorship solicitation. In 1997, Beth-Ellen established SpeakerSpace, a conference development and corporate communications consultancy, which she continues to operate.
Her clients have included Variety Magazine, Richard Saul Wurman's TED conferences, Ziff Davis, Key3Media, govworks, Winstar and Creative Good. Prior to founding SpeakerSpace, Beth-Ellen managed Variety Magazine's portfolio of national conferences and events, including The Big Picture, ShowBiz Expo and the Los Angeles and Miami ShowBiz Summits. Beth-Ellen has previously served on the boards of Anthology Film Archives and the New Group (off-Broadway theatre company) and belongs to the Creative Coalition, New York Women in Technology, Webgrrls, Emily's List and the All Stars Project. Additionally, she is the co-Founder of Boardwalk Films, an independent film finance and production company.
Betsy L. Morgan
Betsy L. Morgan is a Senior Media Executive and most recently was the Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com), a leading news and opinion website which in four years has become an influential media brand. The Huffington Post is a top destination for news, blogs, video and community on the web. Under Betsy's leadership, the site grew from 4 million to 22 million unique visitors a month, launched seven content verticals, and doubled its blogger roll to 3,000+ influential bloggers including celebrities, politicians, academics and policy experts. The Huffington Post is the most-linked-to blog on the Internet, per Technorati. Betsy joined HuffPost in October 2007, after ten years at CBS.
Susan Schulz
Director of Special Projects
Hearst
Susan Schulz was appointed Director of Special Projects for Hearst in December 2008. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! since July 2003, was the magazine’s executive editor, and before that she was the deputy editor, joining the magazine in November 2000.
Schulz began her career as an editorial assistant at Redbook magazine, where she learned the ropes of magazine journalism under the entertainment and articles editors. She moved on to become an assistant editor at Good Housekeeping, continuing to assist editors while also writing frequently for the Profiles section.
In 1997, Schulz moved into the teen market as an associate articles editor at YM magazine. She was promoted to senior articles editor in 1999, overseeing the articles department as well as assigning and editing features. She left the magazine in early 2000 to freelance for various magazines and websites; it was later that year that she returned to her on-staff role at CosmoGIRL!.
Since becoming Editor-in-Chief, Schulz has brought several exclusive brand franchises to the magazine, including The 50 Best Colleges for CosmoGIRL!s (an annual booklet), CosmoGIRL! to Go (a bi-annual mini shopping magazine), and a celebrity-judged community-service contest called The CosmoGIRL! Cup. Schulz has also been recognized for her work in battling the epidemic of obesity and eating disorders, winning the 2003 Media Partnership Award from the National Eating Disorders Association and a 2005 "Do Something" Award from the National Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness. Schulz is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, MD. She currently lives in New York City.
Saundra Thomas
Vice-President of Community Affairs
WABC-TV
As WABC-TV’s Vice-President of Community Affairs, Saundra Thomas coordinates all public service programming, community outreach and station projects. Saundra acts as a liaison between the public and the station and recommends news and programming coverage of important topics.
Tammy Tibbetts
Web Editor
Hearst Digital Media
Tammy works for Hearst Magazines Digital Media, where she is the founding web editor of MisQuinceMag.com, MyPromStyle.com and DonateMyDress.org, the special occasion sister sites of Seventeen.com. She has created multiplatform, interactive web experiences for teen girls, including the Ultimate Prom series, and she has managed partnerships with music and retail companies, local schools and dress drive organizations nationwide.
Mary Alice Williams
Mary Alice Williams is one of the most prestigious names in network news. She is a highly acclaimed broadcast journalist whose investigative work on such topics as foreign policy, ethics, technology and health have made her a respected authority and recognized voice for public information. Williams preeminent stature as a news anchor, programmer, radio and television personality extends to cable, corporate, public television and interactive media.
As one of the primary architects behind the design of the first worldwide television network, Williams oversaw the construction of CNN’s New York Bureau at the World Trade Center prior to the launch of Cable News network (CNN) in 1980 and served as the channel’s principal anchor and Vice President in charge of the New York Bureau until 1989. She contributed to CNN’s award winning program lineup and played a major role in the network’s development, globalization and satellite trafficking system. She was a critical member of CNN’s political anchor team and oversaw the planning and operation of the network’s second largest bureau with responsibility for seven hours of original programming per day. In 1982, Williams was appointed Vice president, becoming one of the highest ranking female executives in American television.
Williams was the first woman to win a national Emmy Award for anchoring an evening newscast during her tenure with NBC from 1989 – 1993. For NBC News, she also anchored Sunday Today, NBC News Special Reports, Yesterday Today & Tomorrow and NBC’s extended coverage of Desert Storm: War in the Gulf. Williams was a frequent anchor and correspondent for NBC Nightly News, Sunrise and The Today Show.
Williams has anchored two unprecedented 10-hour live television specials on childbirth for the Discovery Health Channel. In the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, she wrote and hosted a 3-hour PBS special Reaching Out to Heal. She also hosted a companion program to Bill Moyers' On Our Own Terms, about death and dying, which aired in Fall 2000 on PBS. As host of hallmark’s weekly True North program on personal ethics, Williams earned the 2001 Gracie Allen Award and the 2001 Donald McGannon Ethics in media Award. Her 90-minute PBS special on alcoholism and addiction, Within Reach, along with her continuing work as a PBS contributing correspondent and anchor on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly have established Williams as a recognized commentator and reporter on broad issues of ethics.
Prior to joining CNN in 1979, Williams was a reporter and anchor at WNBC-TV, the NBC flagship station in New York. As special assignment correspondent there, she covered the 1974 and 1978 senate elections and the 1976 Democratic Convention and presidential election. She joined WNBC in 1974. Williams went to WNBC from WPIX in New York where, at age 23, she served as executive producer of news programming. Previously she was executive producer at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she started her career as a reporter at age 18.
Mary Alice Williams has made appearances on top-rated national television programs including Nightline, CNN’s Crossfire, The Tonight Show, The Tom Snyder Show and Murphy Brown.
From 1993 to 1999 Williams was a Trustee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. She has served as Broadcast Chair for Women in Communications and Mass Media Chair for the National Council of Women. She was also a member of the Board of trustees at Fordham University. She is currently a board member of the Women in Communications Foundation and an advisor to the Foundling Hospital.
Williams was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received a B.A. in English and Mass Communications from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the mother of three daughters; Alice Ann, born 1990, and twins Sara Mary and Laura Abigail, born 1992.
Deirdre Wyeth
D.Wyeth & Associates
Web Strategy and Site Development
An award winning web executive, Deirdre Wyeth was the driving force behind the launch of Time Inc.'s Parenting.com, helped build News Corp.'s TV Guide Online, and was Executive Producer for Time Inc. Interactive's first AOL-platform multi-title feature websites. She now turns her ingenuity, her editorial background and writing talent, her managerial and organizational skills, her attention to the bottom line, and her respect for deadlines to the service of small and mid-sized businesses.
Having started on the Internet in 1995, Deirdre counts herself among the Web pioneers. Over the past nine years she has learned what does and does not work. Combining her strategic thinking and day-to-day hands-on experience with the kind of market testing that only large companies like Time Inc. and News Corp. can afford, she has honed her sense of what creates the strongest impact online. She also recognizes and avoids fads and dead-ends.
Before working on the web, Deirdre was a magazine editor, having worked at many titles (TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly), including a stint running Video Review.
Deirdre lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Judith Harrison
Senior Vice President, Staffing and Diversity & Inclusion
Constituency Management Group
Judith Harrison, senior vice president, staffing and diversity & inclusion, leads the U.S. staffing function and directs the development and execution of diversity and inclusion strategies for Constituency Management Group agencies including Weber Shandwick, GolinHarris, Rogers & Cowan, FutureBrand, Octagon, Jack Morton, KRC Research, Powell Tate and Axis Communications. With more than fifteen years of experience in marketing communications services recruiting and human resources, she works with senior executives throughout the organization to provide information and counsel about employer-of-choice branding and engaging the candidate market through social networking and more traditional means. Prior to joining Constituency Management Group in 2006, Judith served as senior vice president of human resources at Ruder Finn, leading the agency’s global recruiting and retention initiatives. She began her career in recruiting as vice president of the Fry Group, which provides executive search services to public relations firms and client-side constituencies.
In addition to her human resources and recruiting expertise, Judith brings to Constituency Management Group a fifteen-year background in public relations and marketing communications. Her strength in financial services and entertainment communications was developed in project, program and department management positions at Burson-Marsteller, Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young), CBS and Media General. Judith has also provided promotion, publicity and public affairs counseling for organizations including Random House, the Italian Trade Commission, Modern Maturity and the International Art of Jazz.
Judith served the public relations firms industry’s trade group, the Council of Public Relations Firms, as chairwoman of its HR Roundtable for three years. She co-chairs the Mentoring Committee of the New York chapter of the Interpublic Group Women’s Leadership Network. Judith has been a guest lecturer in career management in public relations at NYU School of Continuing Education and has been a panelist at career seminars sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America, the National Alliance of Market Developers and the International Association of Business Communicators. She has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. Judith has also served on the boards of WorldStudio Foundation, which provides mentoring and scholarships for multicultural and economically disadvantaged art students, and the New York chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. Judith's NYWICI background includes appearing as a panelist on the "Secrets to a Successful Job Search" segment of the 2006 Student Conference, being featured in the magazine, CONNECT, and serving as a resource on specific activities.
Linda Krebs
Account Supervisor
G.S. Schwartz & Co.
Linda Krebs is a senior account executive at G.S. Schwartz & Co., one of the largest independent public relations and investor agencies in New York City. Linda helps to develop and implement publicity programs for a wide range of clients including but not limited to UTStarcom Personal Communications, Toy Industry Association, Pressman Toy, Walkerswood Caribbean Foods and The Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Linda was previously an account executive at Bridge Global Strategies, a midtown Manhattan public relations agency specializing in international PR. She was a member of Bridge’s founding team in 2004 and during her tenure was involved in all facets of the agency’s business development as well as developing and implementing strategic publicity programs for clients ranging from Condista (Spanish-language cable network aggregator), New York Pharma Forum Inc. (professional pharmaceutical association), and Nikko Hotels International (luxury chain).
In 2005, she created, implemented and served as spokesperson for a cause-related marketing campaign sponsored by Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Canada and pudding manufacturer Kozy Shack; launched a U.S. website and product line in the American market for Admiral Road Designs; performed media relations and assisted in the event planning for Grand Opening of SNBL CPC, Inc.; and served on crisis management team for a famous psychologist.
In addition to her service as co-vice president of student affairs for NYWICI, she is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America’s New York Chapter (PRSA-NY). Linda received the PRSA chapter’s prestigious 2006 President’s Award for her contributions to the Chapter and the industry. She chairs the PRSA-NY New Professionals Networking Committee, which she founded in 2005.
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(212) 297-2124
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Staff Director
(212) 297-2123
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Membership Director
(212) 297-2126
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Membership Coordinator
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