Howard Waterman Email & Phone Number

Bernards, Nj, Us

Washington Dc, Washington Dc, Us

AI 2030's mission is to influence and advocate for the ethical and responsible progression of AI development and adoption to benefit humanity and help minimize AI’s potential adverse impacts. I also serve as Chief Executive in Residence – Communications/PR.

New York, Ny, Us

We are a communications solutions consulting company specializing in the development and execution of strategic communications plans and media relations campaigns, senior executive counsel and positioning, crisis communications/issues and reputation management, strategic storytelling, and strategic PR and IR plans for publicly-traded companies, growing businesses looking to raise capital, and organizations planning to go public. We wake up every day passionately determined to win the media news cycle and find ways to protect and enhance the brand of our clients by creating and executing impactful thought leadership campaigns, and strategic positioning of C-suite executives through positive news coverage, strategic external speaking opportunities and strategic social media presence and content.We develop and execute effective communications campaigns tied to business objectives, including media relations and strategic storytelling, investor relations, employee communications/engagement and financial communications. Experience includes SPAC IPO IR/PR planning and execution.NEW CLIENTS include: The Achieve Institute, NextNav, National Aerospace Research & Technology Park (NARTP).OPEN TO ADDITIONAL BOARD POSITIONS: This track record of success and unique skill set are perfect for corporate and advisory boards looking for strategic communications/brand reputation/campaign management and oversight, and board presence with critical crisis communications/risk mitigation experience.

Results for clients included the development and execution of integrated investor relations and media relations strategic plans that helped take Airspan Networks (NYSE American: MIMO) public through the SPAC process in August, 2021. IR Execution: planned/executed an Analyst Day event (attracted dozens of sell side analysts), a non-deal road show (series of 1x1 meetings with portfolio managers with up to $5 billion AUM), and a successful first day of public trading. - served as the US communications lead for umlaut Inc., (prior to its merger with Accenture) a Europe-based global engineering and consulting firm with over 4,200 employees specializing in the auto, aerospace, energy and telecom industries. Working closely with the US Marketing Lead, Germany-based Marketing team and the global Telecom CEO, developed and executed the strategic comms plan and thought leadership campaign that contributed to a 520% increase in media coverage in 2021.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Serve on the board of advisors at TU, an online institution focused on transforming the MBA experience. Provide insights and counsel to the president on communications strategy, reputation management, hiring/managing PR agencies and thought leadership campaigns.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Served on the board of advisors for a food industry tech startup. Provided insights and counsel on organizational structure and culture, investor relations, go-to-market strategy, brand strategy/presence and reputation management.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited for new senior leader position to lead the global Communications team supporting Moody’s Analytics ($2.6B annual revenue), fast growing data/analytics business.• Led global PR strategy and execution to promote the integrated risk assessment strategy, focused on Know Your Customer (KYC verification/financial crimes/sanctions compliance), insurance, banking, and commercial real estate (CRE) business solutions, data/reports, unique insights and solutions; worked closely with central and business unit marketing teams to align strategic comms and marketing plans to promote business objectives; guided PR agency resources, execution and results• Served as strategic comms adviser to senior leaders for both external and internal comms• Began strategic process of transitioning to campaign and thought leadership model to provide needed scale• Worked closely with and positioned team of economists pro-actively for media interviews, news coverage focused on thought leadership• Drafted sections on strategy, innovation, thought leadership, and the customer experience as part of the company's annual Chartis Research RiskTech 100 report submission; results: Moody’s ranked #1 overall globally, first time in 17 years; developed/ executed video production plan to announce the win; produced video featuring Moody's CEO, Moody's Analytics President, Chartis senior leader used as big reveal of top global ranking on social platforms, at annual Chartis event.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Led strategy and execution for external media and employee communications/engagement for both the Global Network & Technology and the Verizon Business Markets (VBM) organizations. Developed fully integrated communications programs working closely with the product marketing and brand social teams; provide ongoing counsel to executive leadership for the company’s business-to-business primary growth engine serving small and medium businesses; strategic comms advisor to the global Chief Technology Officer, Network SVPs, VBM SVP; lead team of 10+ including agency resources; crisis communications including network outages; position senior leaders through media interviews, thought leadership speaking ops, and social media platforms; media spokesperson, media trainer.

Led national external communications strategy and execution promoting wireless and wireline network technology leadership and innovation supporting the global Network & Technology organization; strategic comms advisor to the CTO and his direct reports; media spokesperson and exec speechwriter; led team of 10 including PR agency resources.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Directed both national and field communications strategy, execution and employee engagement for 75K wireless employees; served as strategic internal comms advisor to the COO, CMO, CNO, CIO; led team of seven direct reports; collaborated closely with external PR team on strategy and messaging.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Led global strategic employee communications strategy, messaging and execution for Verizon Enterprise Solutions (VES), serving multi-national enterprise and major government clients in 100+ countries with 20K employees; advised senior leaders (president, CMO, global sales leader) on messaging, culture initiatives and led a diverse team, with direct reports in the US, Hong Kong, and UK.

Promoted from regional role to global/national position leading employee communications strategy and execution for the Global Network & Technology organization and national wireline (FiOS) company supporting 70K employees; served as strategic internal comms lead to the global Chief Technology Officer, wireline president and their executive teams; asked to take on dual role of leading VES global employee communications as well following org changes, effectively leading two teams.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Promoted to senior management team member, Northeast Operations; directed all internal, external, social media and corporate social responsibility comms strategy/execution in 13 states; built high-performing team from scratch into 30+ strong, including eight direct reports, nine PR agencies; led strategic internal communications supporting 19K employees from Maine to Virginia. Responsible for several best practices used as national models.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

- Promoted to staff director position at HQ; led national media relations strategy/execution promoting data products; positioned COO, CTO, CIO with media, industry analysts; part of HQ team that launched the Verizon Wireless brand; helped develop launch strategy, messages for newly merged company; planned news event, analyst briefing- Led national media relations strategy and execution promoting data products- Directed PR activities in the Carolinas, Arizona, western TX, Pittsburgh markets