As President of Walker Sands, Mike leads a rapidly growing PR and digital marketing agency that leverages traditional, digital and social media to deliver quality results for B2B technology companies. Under his leadership, the firm grew rapidly with headcount increasing from six to 140 full-time employees since 2008. Based on the firm’s creative thinking, strong writing skills, and several proprietary tech tools, Walker Sands has added clients in a number of tech sectors, including fintech, marketing tech, HR tech, retail, media, and enterprise IT services.Walker Sands remains ahead of the curve with integration of owned, earned, and paid media channels, leveraging a number of visual story telling tools, and developing comprehensive, understandable metrics to demonstrate the true return on PR investments. The firm continues to forward the industry with new tools for measurement tied to real business results. Walker Sands’ PR Dashboard, currently in beta, utilizes social shares, web visits, and monitors competitor efforts to reduce time-spent analyzing data and reporting metrics, and provides clients with real-time updates. Walker Sands clients continually find themselves in Forbes, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, New York Times, Entrepreneur, and MarketWatch, among others. This organization has a special ability to position niche clients as experts through data and research driven PR, a place that the agency continues to innovate within.In addition to enormous growth, numerous professional organizations and industry awards have recognized communications campaigns by Walker Sands, including the Communicator Awards, Hermes Awards, Publicity Club of Chicago, PRSA Skylines, Business Marketing Association, PR Daily and the Interactive Media Awards.

Walker Sands is a full service marketing, design, and public relations firm focused on generating sales growth for our business to business clients. We provide marketing support for a wide range of clients, everything from large Fortune 500 brands to small startup ventures. Firms have been counting on Walker Sands since 2001 for services ranging from basic marketing strategy to our advanced SEO programs. For more information, visit http://www.WalkerSands.com.

The Little Giraffe Foundation was started in March 2011 to fund neonatal research and support patients and families of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). To date over 10,000 donations have been made to hospitals across the midwest in the way of holiday gifts, including books, toys, clothing, as well as small gifts for parents. When your child is fighting for his or her life in an incubator, a book or toy can remind you that there's hope for tomorrow and that someone is thinking of you.The foundation has also funded a number critical medical research programs to improve long term quality of life for premature babies.Every year, more than half a million babies (1 in 8) are born too soon in the United States and that rate has risen by 36 percent over the last 25 years. That's serious cause for concern. Babies born just a few weeks early are at risk of severe health problems and lifelong disabilities. Premature birth is the number 1 killer of newborns. To learn more visit http://www.littlegiraffefoundation.org or follow the organization on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/littlegiraffefoundation.

Technology Advisors is a leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consultancy specializing in Sales, Marketing and Customer Service solutions for both Cloud and On-Premise solutions. Technology Advisors delivers Consulting, Project Management, Support, and Training for leading software including Sage SalesLogix, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ACT!, Netsuite, and SugarCRM.

Bugle Newspapers spread across 15 communities and 3 counties, with a total population of 190,687 served. The Bugle and Enterprise Newspapers reach more than 78, 000 homes weekly and cover Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Joliet, Plainfield, Shorewood, Lockport, Crest Hill, Downers Grove, Woodridge, Westmont, Lisle, Niles, Park Ridge and Morton Grove.