Jeff Drew Email & Phone Number

Manchester By The Sea, Massachusetts, US

• Manage public relations engagements for a variety of global technology companies in various industries.
• Collaborate with marketing, business and communications executives to devise and implement successful communications programs.
• Recommend, define or refresh company messaging and positioning.
• Secure media placements in top-tier business, trade and vertical publications.
• Write and place contributed articles on behalf of client executives.
• Manage analyst relations programs, schedule briefings, prepare materials and maintain regular contact to ensure key analysts are updated on company news.

• Strategic consultant, working directly with startup, established and public companies, or with local and global public relations firms, to advance clients’ communication goals, gain market share and drive business.
• Advise on communications strategy.
• Develop and drive consensus on outward-facing company positioning and messages.
• Secure business, trade, local and vertical industry media placements.
• Manage and implement executive thought leadership campaigns, developing themes, placing articles and writing on behalf of client executives.
• Draft and issue company press releases.

Boston, MA, US

• Joined shortly after founding and helped drive evolution from start-up to one of Boston’s premier high-tech PR firms. Company grew to 40 employees and 50 clients at its peak and was named to the Boston Business.
• Maintained hands-on role with each account, actively writing content and securing high-level business, technology and vertical coverage, in addition to strategy, team management and business operations responsibilities.
• Accountable for maintaining positive client relationships across 7-10 accounts.
• Led firm's largest accounts, from Dassault Systèmes to Kronos, and guided start-ups to positive exits, either through a public offering (Everbridge, Tufin) or acquisition (C&K, Prelert, Xigo).
• Managed teams of 4-6 employees, ensuring integration into culture, while mentoring professional growth.
• Developed measurement programs; presented recommendations on effectiveness of strategies.

US

• Strategized and implemented nationwide public relations campaigns for several semiconductor, consulting, networking and startup companies during the height of the “dot com” era. Managed budgets of each account.
• Worked directly with several key local, national and vertical industry journalists, analysts and program managers to secure interviews, contributed articles and speaking opportunities for client executives.
• Managed teams of junior staff on implementing account plans to secure strategic coverage for clients that would help them gain market share and increase sales.
• Managed acclimation and engagement of account coordinators and interns, dispersing account work and helping them become more involved, while also helping to integrate them into the company’s corporate culture.
• Donated time to running a local awareness campaign for the Carroll School, a Lincoln, MA-based school for students with language-based learning differences.
• Began as an assistant account executive and gained titles of account executive and account manager during my time at the company.

• Developed, budgeted, implemented and evaluated a national public relations/public health campaign for the National Institute of Mental Health.
• Produced print, radio and television public service announcements (PSAs), as well as training manuals and educational materials. Met with talent to record PSAs.
• Identified target markets, designed and implemented marketing and distribution strategies.
• Established collaborations with public and private organizations to enhance the campaign’s message and reach.
• Designed and reproduced CD packaging and collateral for PSA distribution.
• Managed purchasing of services from vendors and developed and implemented strategies for the tracking and evaluating of the campaign’s effectiveness.

Boston, MA, US

• Acted as media liaison for the Senator, producing and promoting press releases as well as organizing and preparing press conferences, appearances and events.
• Analyzed and advised on legislation, politics and issues of importance to his constituency.
• Briefed the Senator for legislative sessions, hearings, public gatherings and press events.
• Drafted legislation on behalf of the Senator and worked to ensure its flow through the system.
• Built relationships with members of the Legislature, Legislative Committees and state agencies.
• Managed personal correspondence with the Senator’s constituents.

• Six years’ summer/winter employment as an apprentice electrician.
• Worked initially as an “electrician’s helper,” but soon progressed into the role of a full-fledged apprentice electrician working side-by-side with other electricians in the field.
• Assisted in designing company logo.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science, Sociology, Studio Art

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