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The Linked Communications Team is comprised of all senior level communications professionals.
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Kari Moe Straley
Kari brings nearly fifteen years of broad PR and marketing experience to Linked Communications. Kari has developed and executed successful
public relations campaigns for consumer brands, agricultural commodity boards, industry associations and emerging technology companies.
Kari was director of communications for the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), where she managed the boating industry's
consumer public relations campaign and crisis communications program and oversaw public relations activities for over 25 boat shows across
the country. Kari also served as the director of communications for salesforce.com from the company's inception in 1999 until 2003. Prior
to salesforce.com, Kari was a director at TSI Communications in the digital consumer group. She also spent four years at Ketchum Public Relations
in San Francisco where she delivered public relations services for various consumer brand and commodity boards including the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association, Mattel Inc, Fleischmann's Yeast, Kendall Jackson Wines and The California Prune Board. Kari has a BA from the University of
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Cindy Harvey
Cindy Harvey brings extensive consumer and high tech media relations and strategic communications experience to Linked Communications.
Cindy served as a senior communications director at AOL where she led media relations for the company's online advertising initiatives and
various product introductions and re-launches, including; AOL.com, AOL Search, AOL Video Search, AOL VoIP Products as well as many launches of
AOL's flagship service from AOL 7.0 to AOL 9.0. During her more than thirteen year tenure at AOL, Cindy also managed several of AOL's consumer
brands including Moviefone, MapQuest, ICQ, Digital City and Love@AOL. Cindy also has experience with early stage companies having worked for
an Internet start-up specializing in Web analytics and eCRM, where she led all marketing and communications initiatives including securing
financing from the Carlyle Group and New Enterprise Associates. Cindy has a BA Liberal Arts with minors in Communications, English and Spanish
from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. |
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Jennifer Porter
Jennifer brings over ten years of consumer product marketing and communications experience to Linked Communications. Founder of Stylesmart.com,
a web-based fashion trade company, Jennifer is an entrepreneur with multiple business start-up experience. She offers a unique perspective
in helping new and emerging companies communicate with the marketplace. A published writer and former editor for regional lifestyle publications,
Jennifer has extensive publishing industry knowledge that helps position her clients for successful media coverage. Jennifer started her career
on Wall Street working for a boutique financial services company and has since helped develop a variety of early stage businesses for her clients
as well as GreaterGood.com, TheHungerSite.com, and Women Executives in State Government, a Washington DC-based leadership and training organization
supporting women in government. Jennifer holds a BS from Santa Clara University. |
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Kristi Essick
Kristi Essick helps companies communicate with the media, crafting unique corporate stories that engage journalists and thought leaders.
Prior to her communications work, she covered business, finance and technology for ten years in San Francisco, London and Paris. Most recently a
senior editor at Red Herring, Kristi was also a special correspondent in Paris for the Wall Street Journal Europe, where she wrote a weekly column
on the European venture capital scene. She has also served as Paris bureau chief for the Industry Standard, covered technology as a senior European
correspondent for the IDG News Service and was on staff at CNET. Her journalism work has also appeared in the International Herald Tribune,
The Economist Intelligence Unit and Forrester Magazine, and she has done strategic communications consulting for leading technology and financial
services companies including Coremetrics, Metacafe, Responsys, Bazaarvoice, Samsung, BNP Paribas and American Express. |
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