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Public Relations
Grayling Public Relations specialists create and execute programmes to assist clients in effectively addressing a wide spectrum of internal and external audiences.
Our team of media relations professionals includes award-winning former journalists and other seasoned veterans who are expert in finding a client’s best story and determining the best means and vehicle for telling it with maximum impact. We build coalitions and networks and organise communities to build support and awareness for client initiatives. We help clients to enter or initiate a debate, and positively affect the outcome.
Our public relations team also provides clients with crisis planning and management, media training and executive writing services.
Our office in San Francisco has over 20 years of specialised technology Public Relations experience. It is steeped in the innovative, fast-paced, competitive Silicon Valley tradition and prides itself on its results-driven culture, a culture that is shared in each of our offices.
Government and Public Affairs
We are a multi-disciplinary government and public affairs strategy and management firm. We accelerate a client’s impact on political and policy making processes by providing world class advisory services to public and private sector organisations – locally and around the world.
For thirty years we have offered a broad array of advocacy tools to address a world transformed by the proliferation of interest groups, changing technology and the revolution in new media. We integrate traditional bipartisan lobbying with research, polling, message development and testing, grassroots/grasstops advocacy and new media strategies in the state, federal and international arenas.
Corporate Communications
We build and promote corporate reputations and protect those reputations at a time of crisis. We offer programmes in the areas of corporate public relations, media relations, executive visibility and corporate social responsibility. Our internal communications offerings include employment branding, corporate diversity change management and cultural integration. We are also communications training specialists offering media relations and presentation skills training and executive communications and coaching services. Clients rely on us in high stake situations for crisis management, litigation support and issues management. We develop strategic communications programmes to help companies advance their agenda with multiple stakeholders - customers, consumers, employees, communities, investors and policy makers.
Investor Relations
We help clients realise their full and true valuation in the global financial markets and foster access to capital through strategic planning, consistent communications and careful audience cultivation among investors, analysts and the financial media. We manage comprehensive Investor Relations programmes as well as communications efforts for clients engaged in strategic capital markets transactions such as initial and secondary public offerings, mergers, spin-offs, debt offerings, tender offers, proxy contests, restructuring, and bankruptcies.
Our services include domestic and international road shows, conferences, analyst days and investor targeting, perception studies, best practice studies, corporate governance consulting and financial media relations.
Event Management
We produce events ranging from small gatherings to enormous productions worldwide, from awards ceremonies to academic conferences, from media launches to public service campaigns.
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Boehlke Christine
Founder & CEO, Grayling Connecting Point
Telephone: +1 415 442 4025
chris.boehlke@graylingcp.com
Christine has more than 30 years experience in corporate positioning, branding, marketing and crisis management, and her integrated marketing expertise helps clients build revenue along with image and reputation.
Chris has helped pioneer categories such as digital and Internet video, Internet shopping and entertainment, online fraud protection, virtual conferencing, mobile and wireless computing and customer relationship management.
Chris spent the first portion of her public relations career representing some of the most respected consumer brands in the world, including Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Mattel, MGM, Oscar Mayer and a variety of Procter & Gamble products.
Chris holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Irion Mark
Regional CEO
Telephone: (+1) 202-863-4218
mark.irion@grayling.com
Mark Irion, a veteran government and public affairs strategist, is Regional CEO of Grayling, based in Washington, DC. Prior to being named to his new post, Mark served as CEO of Dutko Worldwide, which was acquired in 2009 by Huntsworth, PLC, Grayling’s parent company. As the head of Dutko’s energy and environment division, Mark built one of the biggest and most respected policy practice groups in the nation’s capital. In 1996 he was named Dutko’s president, where his vision was instrumental in creating a widely recognized innovation in the practice of public and government affairs--Dutko evolved the model of separate advocacy, public relations and public affairs services into a comprehensive public policy management consultancy. Under his leadership Dutko was consistently ranked in the top 10 of Fortune Magazine’s Power 25, a peer-reviewed listing of the most powerful consultancies in Washington. In 2003 Mark was named CEO of Dutko Worldwide by its strategic partner, Lake Capital. From that time through its acquisition by Huntsworth, he led the firm through a sustained period of substantial growth, establishing nine regional officers and leading to Legal Times naming Dutko as a top-five multi-disciplinary government and public affairs firms.
Combined with his years spent in the United States Senate as an environmental and energy policy aide, Mark brings substantial experience to clients on communicating effectively to public and private sector stakeholders and building public-private partnerships. In addition to operational duties, Mark is actively engaging in helping corporate, trade association and non-government organization clients chart new strategic direction.
Mark, is a native of the Mid-West, and received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in Theology from St. John’s University; and has a master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota.
London Carl
CEO, Rose & Kindel, a Grayling company, Sacramento
clondon@rosekindel.com
Carl London is CEO of the Sacramento office of Rose & Kindel, a Grayling company.
Carl has worked for Rose & Kindel as a lobbyist since 1996. He has extensive experience in grassroots lobbying and political action committee development in the public and private sector.
He previously worked as Director of Legislative Affairs for the California Psychological Association (CPA) where he was responsible for developing and implementing legislative strategies for the 5,000-member professional association. He helped raise the association to the forefront of discussions on legislation relating to the professional practice of psychology and health care delivery in California, including the development of legislation that resulted in comprehensive changes to the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act.
In 2002, the California Psychological Association awarded Mr. London its “Distinguished Contribution to Psychology” Award at its annual convention. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Psychology from the Professional School of Psychology for his work to enhance the profession’s standing and in 1995 he received an award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Psychology by a Non-Psychologist” by the Santa Clara County Psychological Association.
Carl holds a Bachelors Degree in Government and Journalism from California State University-Sacramento.
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