What skill are you most known for professionally? 
A relentless approach to helping our clients achieve success. Strategic and creative thinking; insane focus on not what we delivered today, but what we will deliver tomorrow. 

What most excites you about your work & the contribution you can make?
Helping our clients think through and develop their core positioning and brand narrative. Leveraging communications to help them achieve their core business objectives.

Where can we find you when you’re not working?
Well, I am always working (part of my DNA). However, I am privileged to have two of the most extraordinary children that fuel my existence. So, I spend as much time as I can with them. I am also a voracious reader and love to write.

Where did you grow up?
New York, baby!

What would you be doing if not in PR?
In a cabin, anywhere, writing novels.

What’s your favorite type of music?
I tend to be a bit music agnostic, however, I hold a special affinity for old school hip hop, jazz and disco (yes, no shame in my game).

What’s your favorite book?
Who made up these questions? Impossible to pick one. Cheever and Hemingway. George Saunders is a trip. Anything by Michael Chabon. His command of the written word is unrivaled.

What’s your motto?
My team would say it is “come to me with solutions, not problems…” I think it’s “never confuse activity with results.”

Favorite Quote?
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is even worse. (Nigerian proverb)

What skill are you most known for professionally?
Getting things done fast; I am an exceptional multitasker.

What most excites you about your work?
Working with a diverse group of entrepreneurs who are changing and improving our world through innovative thinking.

Where can we find you when you’re not working?
At a concert or traveling to exotic ‘off the beaten path’ places.

Where did you grow up?
I was born in South Africa and grew up on the mean streets of the valley in Los Angeles.

What would you be doing if not in PR?
A fitness trainer.

What’s your favorite type of music?
I love all music but I was definitely born in the wrong era. My favorite is classic rock.

What’s your favorite book?
The count of Monte Cristo. I couldn’t put it down.

What person in history most inspires you?
Nelson Mandela.

What’s your motto?
Never hold a grudge.

What skill are you most known for professionally?
I’m extremely organized and detail-oriented.

What most excites you about your work?
Besides collaborating with a brilliant team, working with companies that are on the forefront of innovation and contributing to their growth is most exciting.  

Where can we find you when you’re not working?
Trying new restaurants in Santa Monica with friends, or visiting with family in Newport.

Where did you grow up?
Newport Beach, CA.

What would you be doing if you weren’t in PR?
Sommelier or a curator. 

What’s your favorite type of music?
Classic and indie rock.

What’s your favorite book?
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

 Favorite Quote?
“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Ben Franklin

What skill are you most known for professionally?
Getting the job done

What most excites you about your work?
Helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals

Where can we find you when you’re not working?
Running or trying to find the best restaurant in town

Where did you grow up?
LA native

What would you be doing if not in PR?
Children’s book author and illustrator

What’s your favorite type of music?
Glenn Miller, Motown, and anything with a great workout tempo

What’s your favorite book?
Too many to list, but two I’d like to recommend here are ‘The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership’ and ‘Getting Things Done’ by David Allen.

What person in history most inspires you?
My grandfather

 What’s your motto? 
Never use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice

What skill are you most known for professionally?
My high-energy level and enthusiasm often surprises co-workers and clients, but simultaneously underscores my passion and dedication to my work.

What most excites you about your work?
Working in PR means generating creative ideas every day, but nothing feels as good as the AHA moment—conceiving an ingenious idea, then seeing positive results.

Where can we find you when you’re not working?
With my mini Golden-Doodle puppy, Theo!

Where did you grow up?
The Jersey Shore

What would you be doing if not in PR?
If I could do it all over again, I’d most definitely be a CIA analyst specializing in homeland security and terrorism (basically Carrie in Homeland).

What’s your favorite type of music?
Phoenix in the morning; Calvin Harris in the evening

What’s your favorite book?
I could tell you it’s The Great Gatsby, but you wouldn’t take me seriously anymore. Anything by the Fitzgeralds (Scott & Zelda) I enjoy. Vacation reading is always mystery novels. 

What’s your motto?
Do what makes YOU happy.

Favorite Quote?
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson