Patrick Gallagher Email & Phone Number

Northfield, Ohio, United States

Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Available for consulting on corporate communications, investor relations, public relations, and marketing issues and opportunities. I bring experience in a wide range of industries and situations. Clients include Dix & Eaton, Materion Corp., GBX Group, Alternative Defense Strategies, n2y llc,, Indago (aka Infinite Arthroscopy), and the World Union of Jesuit Alumni Congress.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Manager of PR & communications

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Assisting and advising the Law School in marketing, communications and public relations, including writing news and feature articles.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Advisor to Dix & Eaton clients on issues and projects in public relations, investor relations, crisis communications and marketing communications• Advised Osborne Capital Group on proxy contest to gain board seats at First Niles Financial• Provided training/consulting for Ohio Restaurant Assn. on Cleveland minimum wage proposal• Part of team advising privately held energy MLP on dissident shareholder strategy• Part of team assisting Community Blight Solutions/Secure View in raising visibility and generating sales leads and marketing opportunities

Cleveland

- Served as account supervisor on numerous accounts ensuring budgets and deadlines were met; responsible for client service, reporting and satisfaction; business development; team leadership; budget management; and account profitability/realization.- Regularly assisted in agency new business development--researching and writing new business proposals and presenting in meetings with the prospective clients- Assisted in agency marketing through networking, involvement in professional associations and contributions to Aperture, the agency blog.- Led teams on major client projects--developing and launching a new brand, creating a new corporate website, integrating a major acquisition, and managing corporate restructuring communications.- Developed, wrote and produced marketing communications materials for clients-- marketing literature, sales presentations, website content, white papers and by-lined articles.- Advised and worked with corporate executives on investor relations activities--quarterly earnings releases and conference calls, annual reports,and investor presentations.- Prepared executives and spokespersons for media interviews and internal presentations--in crisis situations, with talking points and briefing books.- Provided media relations support for clients--developing plans, writing pitches, press releases and by-lined articles, and tracking and measuring results.- Secured placements as appropriate in targeted trade media, local media and national business and financial media--the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, NBC, CBS, CNBC, CBC

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Rose through successive positions with Edward Howard, a leading regional public relations firm that merged into Fahlgren Mortine in 2010. - Served as account supervisor on numerous accounts ensuring budgets and deadlines were met; responsible for client service, reporting and satisfaction; business development; team leadership; budget management; and account profitability/realization.- Regularly assisted in agency new business development--researching and writing new business proposals and presenting in meetings with the prospective clients.- Assisted in agency marketing through networking, involvement in professional associations and community organizations.- Led teams on major client projects--developing and launching a new brand, managing communications for companies in bankruptcy restructuring.- Developed, wrote and produced marketing communications materials for clients--collateral, videos and by-lined articles.- Advised and worked with corporate executives on investor relations activities--IPOs, quarterly earnings releases and conference calls, annual reports, and investor presentations.- Prepared executives and spokespersons for media interviews and internal presentations--in crisis situations, with talking points and briefing books.- Provided media relations support for clients--developing plans, writing pitches, press releases and by-lined articles, and tracking and measuring results.- Secured placements as appropriate in targeted trade media, local media and national business and financial media--the Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Barron's, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC and more

B.A., English

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta KappaContributing Editor, The Daily Pennsylvanian Contributor, The Penn Review literary magazine.

Mba, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma honor societyMaster of Business Administration with a concentration in marketing

College Of The Holy Cross

Activities and Societies: English MajorTransferred to Penn in 1972 for junior and senior years.