Tagged: communications
29 resultsShaye Vercollone
Shaye Vercollone is a New York-based brand marketing leader who became Chief Marketing Officer of TWP, the womenswear label founded by Trish Wescoat Pound. She built a career at the sharp end of luxury fashion marketing, holding senior brand, communications, and social strategy roles at Helmut Lang and Theory before a run as an independent brand marketing consultant. Her work sits at the intersection of storytelling, social, and the quiet, menswear-inspired tailoring that defines TWP.
Jennifer Rankin Byrne
Jennifer Rankin Byrne is the founder and principal of MERIT Coaching Communications Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she coaches leaders and communicators to sharpen their voice, build executive presence, and lead with authenticity. She brings more than two decades of communications leadership, including years as Vice President of Corporate Communications at PBS and earlier roles at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, AOL, and Turner Broadcasting/CNN. Her practice blends real-world corporate experience with a curiosity-led, customized coaching approach summed up in her tagline: 'Communicate with purpose. Grow with confidence.'
Sarah Kissko Hersh
Sarah Kissko Hersh is a public relations and communications leader with more than 25 years of agency and brand experience, and the founder of Type A Consultancy, a communications and leadership practice based just outside New York City. A Top 2% LinkedIn creator with a following in the tens of thousands, she works as a PR coach, trainer, and fractional communications advisor, helping executives and teams get unstuck, tell simpler stories, and communicate with clarity and kindness.
Becca Chambers
Becca Chambers is the Chief Marketing Officer at Scale Venture Partners and one of LinkedIn's most recognizable communications voices, widely known as 'Becca from LinkedIn.' With roughly two decades in B2B tech communications and 15+ years focused on enterprise technology and cybersecurity, she has led brand, PR, analyst relations, and crisis communications at companies including McAfee, Ivanti, and MobileIron. She co-hosts the Under Embargo podcast, advises early-stage startups, and reaches millions each month with candid content on brand, leadership, and building in tech.
Emily Brittain
Emily Brittain is a Senior Communications Manager at Microsoft, working within the Office of the Americas Markets & Industries President. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, she crafts the stories that shape how Microsoft's largest regional business - spanning Canada, the United States, and Latin America - communicates its vision internally and externally. A Northwestern University-trained journalist with over 11 years at Microsoft, she brought a multimedia storyteller's instincts to one of the world's most consequential technology companies, producing town halls, executive narratives, and brand messaging at scale.
Ad Hoc Labs (makers of Burner + Dialed)
Ad Hoc Labs is a Los Angeles-based independent mobile software company that builds communication tools giving people control over how they can be reached. Its flagship app, Burner, launched in 2012 as the original disposable second phone number - a privacy layer that lets users spin up, use, and delete alias numbers on demand. Its second product, Dialed, packages a business phone line, contact management, and marketing tools into one app for solopreneurs and micro-businesses. Founded by Greg Cohn and Will Carter, the company remains independent and remote, focused on utility and reliability over feature volume.
Joshua Stern
Joshua Stern is the CEO and co-founder of Telerivet, a mobile communications platform built for organizations that operate where bandwidth is thin, languages are many, and feature phones still matter. A Stanford computer science graduate who joined the Peace Corps instead of the Valley, he learned the texture of mobile networks on the island of Pemba, off Tanzania, then turned that field experience into software used by NGOs, governments, and enterprises across more than 50 countries.
Rachel Chen
Rachel Chen is a corporate communications specialist at eBay in San Jose, where she works on CEO communications and the global content team. A Princeton graduate from Philadelphia, she blends press-release craft with editorial storytelling and a data-driven instinct for what readers actually want.
Kari Perez
Kari Perez is Vice President of Gaming Communications at Microsoft, where she leads global PR and communications strategy for Xbox. She joined the Xbox team in March 2021 after a distinguished career spanning gaming, streaming, and entertainment — including VP-level roles at Netflix Latin America and corporate affairs at HBO Latin America. Multilingual and internationally experienced, Perez has become one of the most prominent communications voices in the gaming industry, issuing statements on major Xbox announcements ranging from Game Pass price changes to leadership speculation.
Caitlin Epstein
Caitlin Epstein is VP of Corporate Communications at Twilio, the cloud communications platform powering customer engagement for businesses worldwide. Since joining in 2015, she helped navigate Twilio through its IPO and became one of tech PR's sharpest voices on human-centered storytelling - best known for turning a CEO's breakfast burrito delivery into a Forbes-covered $3 billion acquisition narrative.
Cortney Lusignan
Cortney Lusignan is a seasoned communications and public relations executive currently serving as Senior Program Manager, AWS Communications, supporting the AWS Global Communications Vice President at Amazon Web Services. With a career spanning major PR agencies including Weber Shandwick and Edelman, and deep industry expertise in financial services, healthcare, and technology PR, Lusignan has built a reputation as a trusted operator at the intersection of enterprise cloud and strategic communications.
Daniella Vallurupalli
Daniella Vallurupalli is the Vice President and Head of Global Communications at Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company. She joined Cloudflare in 2014 when it had fewer than 80 employees and built its communications organization from the ground up. Today she oversees all internal and external communications across public relations, corporate and employee comms, analyst relations, social media, and visual storytelling for one of the most recognized brands in cloud networking and cybersecurity.
Erin Wieland
Erin Russell Wieland is a Program & Communications Lead at Microsoft, serving in the Office of the EVP & CRO for Global Enterprise Sales in Seattle. With over a decade at the intersection of consulting and technology, she built her career from Bridge Partners Consulting - where she rose from Consultant to Manager over seven years - to Microsoft, where she has led readiness, communications, and social strategy for some of the company's largest commercial partner and sales organizations. Her work on the first-ever digital Microsoft Inspire conference earned her a Delivering Success Award, and she has also received the Microsoft Gold Club Award for extraordinary individual performance. She operates at the nerve center of Microsoft's enterprise revenue engine, translating complex organizational priorities into programs and communications that land across thousands of field sellers and partners worldwide.
Hassan Al Shouli
Hassan Al Shouli is a senior communications and strategic business executive at Microsoft's CEMA (Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) President Office, based in the UAE. With nearly two decades of career experience, he has shaped Microsoft's presence across the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and broader MEA region through executive communications, multi-channel campaigns, and leadership engagement. Before Microsoft, he spent years in the fast-moving MENA digital market at dubizzle and analytics consultancies. He holds an MBA from Cass Business School (now Bayes) and a BSc in Electronics, Engineering, and Communications from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.
Rob Shilkin
Rob Shilkin is Vice President of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Google, overseeing one of the world's most complex corporate communications functions. A former antitrust lawyer from Australia who trained at Clayton Utz and Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Shilkin brings rare legal-policy fluency to Google's communications challenges - including antitrust litigation, AI debates, content moderation, and online advertising policy. His team handles approximately 2,000 issues per year. He took overall leadership of Google's communications in 2023, reporting to Chief Marketing Officer Lorraine Twohill, and has been recognized in Provoke Media's Influence 100 2025 rankings.
Ross Wilkie
Ross Wilkie is VP of Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google, based in San Francisco. A biologist-turned-communications-strategist, he spent over 15 years rising through GlaxoSmithKline before serving as Chief Communications Officer at Danaher Corporation. In February 2024, he joined Google to oversee global communications and public affairs for one of the world's most scrutinized technology companies.
Stacy Martinet
Stacy Martinet is Adobe's Chief Communications Officer and VP of Marketing Strategy & Communications, overseeing a 200+ person team that handles all stakeholder communications, marketing strategy, events, social media, and corporate social responsibility. A former CMO of Mashable and decade-long veteran of The New York Times digital transition, she bridges the worlds of journalism, media strategy, and enterprise technology with a distinctive voice on AI fluency, creative leadership, and modern brand building.
Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips spent 18 years at Microsoft rising to VP of Communications, where he led PR strategy for the company's advertising business, managed media around major acquisitions, guided CEO communications, and drove narratives through cultural transformations. With over four decades of total PR experience, he left Microsoft in late 2024 to launch Upstream Communications, a Seattle-based strategic communications firm focused on helping clients tell their stories with precision and purpose.
Clipbook
Clipbook is an AI-native platform for communications and corporate affairs teams. It monitors over one million media and policy sources - press, broadcast, podcasts, social, regulatory filings - and uses agentic AI to surface what actually matters, in real time. Founded in 2023 by ex-BCG consultant Adam Joseph, Clipbook bootstrapped to seven figures in ARR before raising a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, and Carpenter Capital in late 2025.
Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley is the Chairman and CEO of Be My Eyes, the world's largest digital volunteer organization connecting blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers via live video calls. A communications veteran who spent 12 years at Brunswick Group and three years as Facebook's VP of Global Business Communications, Buckley pivoted to mission-driven tech when he joined Be My Eyes in December 2022. Under his leadership, Be My Eyes launched Be My AI (powered by GPT-4), which TIME named one of the Best Inventions of 2023, and scaled the platform to over 1 million blind and low-vision users supported by 6.7 million volunteers worldwide. He is also co-founder and chairman of Ocean's Halo, a seaweed-based natural foods company, and an active angel investor.
Leila Chreiteh
Leila Chreiteh is a digital communications strategist and activist who has spent her career bridging social justice causes with the people who care about them. A Georgia-raised, Agnes Scott College honors graduate with a self-designed Human Rights major, she founded a refugee resettlement nonprofit on her college campus, ran for Alabama state legislature, championed immigrant rights at the Justice Action Center, and brought her storytelling instincts to the startup world as Communications Strategist and Director of Community at Outlander VC in New York - weaving a thread of progressive purpose through every platform she touches.
Margit Wennmachers
Margit Wennmachers is the Operating Partner who built Andreessen Horowitz's brand from the ground up, transforming a16z from a new fund into the most recognized name in venture capital. A German immigrant who co-founded OutCast Communications in 1997 and grew it into a powerhouse PR firm serving Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, she joined a16z in 2010 and pioneered a direct-to-audience content strategy that gave the firm an outsized voice in tech. She was the force behind Marc Andreessen's seminal 'Software is Eating the World' op-ed and spent 15 years shaping how founders, investors, and the world think about a16z.
Melanie Galang
Melanie Galang is a Marketing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the most influential venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, where she leads communications and brand strategy for the firm's fintech vertical. A UC Berkeley Media Studies alumna who spent her formative years in New York City, Galang brings deep experience from her prior roles as Head of Communications at Day One Ventures and Vice President at Moxie Communications Group, where she helped launch dozens of consumer technology brands. Now based in Los Angeles, she operates at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and capital - helping shape how the world understands fintech's future.
Natalie Miyake
Natalie Miyake is Partner, Marketing at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most storied venture capital firms. A seasoned communications strategist who grew up in Japan and studied in Madrid before working in New York and San Francisco, she shapes how Sequoia tells its story to the world. With a career spanning crisis PR at Brunswick Group, corporate communications at Twitter during its most turbulent acquisition years, and nearly a decade steering Sequoia's voice across its portfolio of unicorns and breakout companies, Miyake brings a rare mix of global perspective and Silicon Valley fluency to the intersection of finance and narrative.
Shannon Bendall
Shannon Bendall is the Marketing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she builds marketing programs for the firm's Venture Fund and serves as a communications and brand advisor to portfolio companies at every stage. Before a16z, she was the second communications hire at Snap, shepherding the company through its advertising platform launch, the Discover content hub, and augmented reality Lenses - all while the headcount ballooned from 100 to thousands and the company went public. She is based in Los Angeles, having relocated from the East Coast over a decade ago.
Shari Doherty
Shari Doherty is the Marketing Partner for Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads brand and marketing for one of the most influential crypto investment firms on the planet. With two decades of marketing and communications experience spanning Danger Inc., Google Android, Uber, Atomico, Essential, and Amazon Smart Home, she has helped define how some of tech's most iconic products tell their stories. At a16z crypto, she's doing it again - this time for the next internet.
Adam Joseph
Adam Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Clipbook, the AI system of record for communications and public affairs teams. A Harvard summa cum laude graduate and Fulbright Scholar, he bootstrapped Clipbook to $1M ARR before landing a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban - won through a single cold email. Before building Clipbook, he served as Communications Director for Abdul El-Sayed's historic 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign and as a Strategy Consultant at BCG, where he led healthcare and government transformation work. Clipbook now monitors 1M+ media and policy sources for 200+ clients including Weber Shandwick and BCG.
Kim Milosevich
Kim Milosevich is the Chief Marketing Officer for Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), widely regarded as one of the architects of Web3's public narrative. Over 25+ years she has shaped communications for Yahoo, Skype, and Coinbase, but her deepest imprint is on a16z itself - where she launched the a16z podcast, built its content infrastructure from scratch, and helped bring the crypto fund's story to the world. After guiding Coinbase through its landmark 2021 Nasdaq direct listing, she returned to a16z in 2022 as CMO to continue shaping how the next era of the internet talks about itself.
Lulu Cheng Meservey
Lulu Cheng Meservey is the founder and CEO of Rostra, a strategic communications firm that bets on founder-led narratives over legacy PR playbooks. A former VP of Communications at Substack and EVP/CCO at Activision Blizzard, she now sits on Shopify's board of directors and manages a $40 million VC fund. Known for her newsletter 'Flack' (also called 'Res Ipsa') on Substack, she is one of the most incisive voices arguing that the future of tech PR is direct-to-audience, not media-mediated. Her clients have included Anduril, Cognition AI, Coinbase, and Ramp.