Michael Freedman Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, California, United States

I lead all marketing and communications at SRI, one of the world's leading independent R&D organizations. With a team of storytellers, designers, and internal and external communications, marketing, and digital media pros, we’re sharing the story of a nonprofit institute that's had a profound impact on every one of our lives. In 2023-24, we launched and completed the first successful brand refresh in our 75+ year history; the communications around the acquisition of the famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); and the relaunch of PARC Forum, an event series first founded in 1977. We revamped our website and storytelling strategy, developed new internal communications channels, launched a slew of new videos and marketing collateral, and developed relationships with high-profile media. Founded in 1946 as part of Stanford, and independent since 1970, we acquired Sarnoff Corp. (formerly RCA Labs) in 1987 and PARC in 2023. We are headquartered in Silicon Valley and have offices and labs in Princeton, Washington, D.C., Ann Arbor, Boulder, Tokyo, and more. Our 1,500 researchers are doing extraordinary work in quantum, space, sustainability, biosciences, AI, education, and beyond.

Stanford, California

As the chief communications officer at Stanford's largest school, I oversaw all communications, content, and community-building activities. My team's responsibilities included executive and internal & employee communications; media relations and issues management; digital strategy; storytelling & content; brand marketing & management; and events. I also oversaw alumni relations, donor relations, development communications, and stewardship. Built and led a team that won numerous awards and accolades. Together, we created and launched a digital magazine about technology; the SiriusXM Radio show and podcast, the Future of Everything (now in the top 1.5% of all podcasts and a Webby honoree); industry-leading social media profiles; proactive media campaigns; storytelling initiatives; and several dozen websites.We also launched innovative internal communications and employee engagement programs and a broader community-building strategy that included ongoing communications and multiple thought leadership and other events and programs, on campus and beyond, that engaged and built advocacy among more than 65,000 alumni, 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 500 employees, and community members.

Stanford, Ca

Publisher and editor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Led a world-class team of full-time and freelance writers, editors, designers, and multimedia producers to create and launch the award-winning Stanford Business digital and print publications. Led the team that created and launched Insights by Stanford Business, a digital magazine of business research and ideas that has reached millions of readers worldwide. Our video and podcast series have many millions of viewers and listeners; and we redesigned and relaunched our print magazine and our email newsletter to audience acclaim. In addition, we initiated and developed several content-distribution partnerships with major media in the U.S., China, and India, and grew to become one of the largest social-media profiles in higher education.Our work won multiple awards and recognition for content, design, and strategy, including 2015 Emmy and Webby nominations. We were named one of the world's top-three content marketing brands of 2014, ahead of such well-established brands as American Express and Coca-Cola.

Stanford, Ca

Co-taught a course on critical analytical thinking to first-year MBA students.

Stanford, Ca

Led external and internal communications at university-based research center focusing on issues in international security. Research areas include nuclear security, migration and transnational flows, governance, health and the environment, and terrorism and homeland security. Responsibilities included advising and collaborating with researchers on essays, op-eds, and similar pieces for major national and international media outlets, including the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Times; advising colleagues on strategies for external communications and media relations for high-profile global news stories related to international security; and conducting media and policy outreach.

Directed Asia and Latin America political coverage for overseas editions of international magazine of news, analysis and ideas. Managed writers, correspondents, stringers and freelancers in cities throughout Asia and Latin America. Identified and hired public figures, writers and scholars to write on topics of broad interest to an international audience. Edited and wrote stories on international affairs. Created, launched, and produced a regular sports column with some of the world's greatest athletes, including Martina Navratilova, Gary Player, and Edwin Moses.

New York City

Directed Europe and Latin America coverage for all overseas editions of international news magazine. Managed a stable of full-time writers in major international cities across multiple time zones. Hired freelancers and guest writers. Edited and wrote cover and feature stories on international affairs.

New York City And London

Covered international business, politics and legal affairs for U.S.-based business magazine, circulation of 1 million, and its website, Forbes.com. Extensive reporting experience in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. As chief European correspondent, covered European business, economics, politics and legal affairs. Co-wrote a market-moving stock column. Explored investment techniques and styles. As legal correspondent, covered antitrust and competition policy, copyright law, the U.S. tort system, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Interviewed and profiled diplomats and politicians, as well as senior executives at some of the world’s largest companies. Wrote cover and feature stories on business, finance, economics, and legal and global affairs, and broke investigative stories that have been turned into major motion pictures and documentaries.

Bachelor Of Arts, Religion/Religious Studies

Master Of Science, Journalism

Executive Education Program In Strategic Marketing And Digital Marketing (Non-Degree Program)