Michele Clarke Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANIES, ORGANIZATIONS, BOARDS & INDIVIDUALSSought by founders, executive teams & boards for:✧ Corporate & business development - Startups, turnarounds, renewals✧ Strategic planning & counsel - Competitive analysis, strategic planning, resource alignment.✧ Competitive positioning - Creating categories, entering markets, moving from early-stage to high-growth, moving from high-growth to brand & market leader, defending leadership position.✧ High-end… Show more FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANIES, ORGANIZATIONS, BOARDS & INDIVIDUALSSought by founders, executive teams & boards for:✧ Corporate & business development - Startups, turnarounds, renewals✧ Strategic planning & counsel - Competitive analysis, strategic planning, resource alignment.✧ Competitive positioning - Creating categories, entering markets, moving from early-stage to high-growth, moving from high-growth to brand & market leader, defending leadership position.✧ High-end networking through flawless execution - Substantive influence, the strategic network and focus that guarantees results. Exceptional industry, media and influencer relationships. Exceptional content development.✧ Partner marketing & loyalty programs - Motivation, message consistency, joint marketing. ✧ Ecosystem & coalition - Recruitment, program development, growth, retention.✧ Issue & crisis management - Avoiding them, mitigating risk, managing through, recovery.✧ Transaction communications - Launches, IPOs, capital raises, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs/divestitures, restructuring. Select Clients✧ TECHNOLOGY: ARRIS International, BlueSpec, Comcast, CommScope, Consumer Electronics Association, FiscalNote, Microchip FPGA, Minim (Zoom Telephonics), RISC-V International, Ruckus Networks, Siemens PLM Software, SoftBank Robotics, TechKnowledge Strategies, Technology Patents & Licensing, United Technologies Corp, Verizon, Zyter✧ HEALTHCARE: athenahealth, Exponential AI, Geisinger, Helix, IBM Watson Health, LivOnGo, Medical Informatics Corp, Pager, ReviveHealth, ZyterHealth✧ MEDIA: Backflip Studios, Crain's, CTAM, OZY Media, Skift, Techonomy Media, The Juggernaut, ThePostGame (Sports Media Ventures), Time Warner Cable, #waywire✧ EDUCATION: Maven, Oxford Summer College✧ RETAIL: Angi (IAC), Nosh, Qurate Retail (QVC, et al)✧ FINANCIAL SERVICES: Marcus Ventures, TRADE IT (Trading Ticket)✧ REAL ESTATE / UTILITIES: Essential Utilities (Aqua America), Reonomy (Altus) Show less

Initial six-month contract extended to include additional objectives due to huge success.Select Outcomes: Increasing lead generation in digital channel more than 125X. Established integrated GTM. Introduced new programs. Upgraded existing initiatives.

Global

Six-month project for the revolutionary open-hardware technology project housed at The Linux Foundation.Select Outcomes: Restored and enhanced organization reputation with members. Achieved record performance on target projects. Restructured and modernized marketing organization. Led extensive issues management and recovery around geopolitical semiconductor technology tensions.

A financial advisory and transaction firm serving media and education organizations involved with disruptive innovation. Advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance.

New York, New York, United States

Filled in for lead communications executive twice (maternity leaves).

Pr Week Agency Of The Year 2014

Long-term project for leading midwest advertising & PR firm. Select Outcomes: Successful corporate development and turnaround of New York office for this advertising and communications agency. Sold to strategic buyer for larger multiple than expected.Clients: Crain's Ad Age Group, Cross MediaWorks, MSCI, NationSwell, Screenvision, Skift, Time Warner Cable, TiVo, Upworthy, #waywire.

Greater New York City Area

Long-term project for west coast technology and healthcare communications firm. Select Outcomes: Exceeded 12-month goals in first seven months. Turned around New York office and global Corporate practice.Clients: ADP, BMC, Honeywell Aerospace, HTC, Microsoft, Novo Nordisk, AbbVie, Verizon, and more.

Select Outcomes: Built largest revenue-generating book of business in the firm. Created Corporate Marketing practice.Business expansion for renowned investor relations leader.Clients: (media & entertainment) Advance Publications (ACBJ); Classic Media; Clear Channel; Comcast; Cox Communications; Discovery Communications; Google; HD Digital Radio Alliance; Lionsgate; Live Nation; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Meredith; Newspaper Association of America; Nielsen; Open Mobile… Show more Select Outcomes: Built largest revenue-generating book of business in the firm. Created Corporate Marketing practice.Business expansion for renowned investor relations leader.Clients: (media & entertainment) Advance Publications (ACBJ); Classic Media; Clear Channel; Comcast; Cox Communications; Discovery Communications; Google; HD Digital Radio Alliance; Lionsgate; Live Nation; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Meredith; Newspaper Association of America; Nielsen; Open Mobile Video Coalition (mobile dtv); Pixar; Playboy; Time Warner; Wild Brain ... (financial services) Liebau Asset Management; PricewaterhouseCoopers, Warburg Pincus ... (technology) Awareness Technologies; Caminus; Intel; NCR; OpenTV; Perimeter E-Security; Sarnoff; Secure Computing; UGS (now Siemens PLM) ... (business services) Harris Interactive; Intelsat; Iron Mountain; Medialink/Teletrax; NeuStar; TMNG Global; WNS Global ... (education) Princeton Review; St. Paul's School ... (healthcare) Bacchus Vascular; KV Pharmaceutical ... (consumer) Hollywood Media; Movietickets.com; Oneida Ltd.; Phoenix Footwear. Show less

Clients at H&K: Compaq, Motorola, Microsoft, Citibank, Marconi, Afilias/.info, UPromise, British Telecom, McKinsey Broadband, others ... At Burson: Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Citibank, others.

Clients: Cahners Business Information, Comcast Online, Seiko Consumer Products Division, major US telecommunications company, Global TeleSystems, OutReach Technologies, PartMiner Inc.

Top technology IPO of 1997. Created, directed and executed corporate and integrated marketing and communications strategy and related plans/programs for Silicon Valley's first unicorn -- a semiconductor intellectual property pioneer with $1.2 billion market cap on $11,475 in revenues. Determined and managed budget, drove positioning/messaging, market definition, corporate identity/positioning, crisis communications, public relations (announcements, media/analyst relations, speakers bureau… Show more Top technology IPO of 1997. Created, directed and executed corporate and integrated marketing and communications strategy and related plans/programs for Silicon Valley's first unicorn -- a semiconductor intellectual property pioneer with $1.2 billion market cap on $11,475 in revenues. Determined and managed budget, drove positioning/messaging, market definition, corporate identity/positioning, crisis communications, public relations (announcements, media/analyst relations, speakers bureau, contributed articles, etc.), advertising/direct mail, industry events, partner and loyalty programs (motivation, message consistency, joint marketing), and consumer branding. Assisted CFO with financial analyst relations. Managed relevant consultant/agency relationships. (Led agency-side PR team prior to joining the company.) Show less

Clients: Cadence Design Systems Inc., Rambus Inc., AMP Electronic Commerce, Silicon Graphics Inc., Viewlogic Systems Inc., Quickturn Design Systems, and High Level Design Systems.

Clients: Netscape (1995 IPO); Mentor Graphics Corp.; Sun Microsystems (Sun Microelectronics and SMCC's Internet Commerce Group). Co-founded Silicon Valley office of this technology advertising and communications firm.

Boston

Editorial management in the deep tech and business-to-business media, with publications including Electronic Engineering Times, Digital News & Review, Client/Server Today, EDN News Edition, Computer Graphics Review, The S. Klein Newsletter on Computer Graphics, the Journal of Electronic Defense, and the Microwave Journal (official IEEE MTT-S journal).Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times)Senior Technology Editor | 3/1994 - 6/1995 | CMP Media | Manhasset NY#1 publication in… Show more Editorial management in the deep tech and business-to-business media, with publications including Electronic Engineering Times, Digital News & Review, Client/Server Today, EDN News Edition, Computer Graphics Review, The S. Klein Newsletter on Computer Graphics, the Journal of Electronic Defense, and the Microwave Journal (official IEEE MTT-S journal).Electronic Engineering Times (EE Times)Senior Technology Editor | 3/1994 - 6/1995 | CMP Media | Manhasset NY#1 publication in design engineering sector.Digital News & Review, Client/Server Today, and EDN News EditionExecutive Editor, Managing Editor | 12/1987 - 3/1994 | Cahners Publishing | Newton MAComputer Graphics Review and S. Klein Newsletter on Computer GraphicsManaging Editor | 10/1986 - 12/1987 | Technology & Business Communications | Sudbury MAMicrowave Journal and Journal of Electronic DefenseAssistant Managing Editor | 1/1983 - 10/1986 | Horizon House - Microwave Inc. | Canton MA Show less