Experience

• 

  Homeownership Preservation Foundation

  • Minneapolis, Minnesota and Washington, D.C.

  • Vice President, Communications

    • 2016 - 2017
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota and Washington, D.C.
• 

  PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA)

  • Norfolk, Virginia

  • Vice President, Corporate Communications

    • 2012 - 2015
    • Norfolk, Virginia
• 

  Pfizer

  • New London, Connecticut and New York City

  • Director, Public Relations

    • 2005 - 2011
    • New London, Connecticut and New York City

    For Pfizer subsidiaries about to be divested as the company refocused on pharmaceutical medicines.I managed multiple global launches of new animal health prescription technology and treatments, while also managing crises when manufacturing problems presented safety-of-medicine challenges.

• 

  Cigna

  • Bloomfield, Connecticut

  • Assistant Vice President, Communications

    • 2002 - 2004
    • Bloomfield, Connecticut
• 

  Phoenix Life Insurance Company

  • Hartford, Connectcut

  • Vice President, Corporate Communications

    • 1999 - 2001
    • Hartford, Connectcut
• 

  Cigna

  • Bloomfield and Hartford, Connecticut

  • Assistant Vice President, Corporate Relations

    • 1987 - 1999
    • Bloomfield and Hartford, Connecticut

    Established Cigna as a successful managed care company. I worked with print and broadcast journalists critical of insurers for not fully subsidizing patient payments when accessing needed care. The result: Balanced news coverage instead focused on patients helping to manage the quality and cost o...

• 

  Bank of America

  • San Francisco and New York City

  • Assistant / Vice President, Corporate Communications

    • 1977 - 1987
    • San Francisco and New York City

    As a former broadcast journalist, I co-led the bank's first-ever broadcast news media relations program, becoming chief spokesperson for the bank in New York City and Washington, D.C. As a producer and on-air reporter for the bank's first-ever California cable TV broadcast, I also reporte...