Paul Wilke Email & Phone Number

Mare Island, Ca, Us

My company specializes in strategic public relations counsel in the following areas: travel & tourism, tech, electronic payments and IPOs. In addition to PR, I focus on global PR network sourcing and coordination, writing, media outreach, social media, event management, government relations and public affairs. I work with public relations firms, with companies within their existing public relations infrastructure or as a company’s de facto head of corporate public relations.

San Francisco , Ca, Us

Walking Duck is an audio-video production company that creates owned content that seamlessly converts into earned media, social media gold, and paid content. We've perfected this approach through various formats like pre-recorded panel discussions, zoominars, focus groups, podcasts, and one-on-one interviews.

Brussels, Be

The SUN Program helps travelism (travel and tourism) communities and stakeholders respond to the evolving climate targets and sustainable development goals by moving to a Green Growth trajectory using a network of solar powered technology hubs (SUN-ARKS).

Vallejo, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Led communications around one of the most successful IPOs of 2012. Highlights include: Year-over-year positive, on-message media coverage, up 92%; successfully established company’s global public relations infrastructure with annual budget exceeding $1 million; strategized PR and social media around transition from private to public-listed company and successfully organized Splunk’s participation and debut at SXSW 2012.

Washington, Dc, Us

Represented Visa, Inc. on the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board (Board), which served as the advisory body to the Secretary of Commerce on matters relating to the travel and tourism industry in the United States. The Board advised the Secretary on government policies and programs that affect the U.S. travel and tourism industry, offers counsel on current and emerging issues, and provides a forum for discussing and proposing solutions to industry-related problems.

Foster City, California, Us

Global external communications with a focus on travel/tourism, cross-border and e-commerce. Highlights include: Managed global communications focused on travel/tourism, cross-border and e-commerce with annual budget of $1.2 million; developed global travel/tourism comms program which contributed to a 60% increase in cross-border revenues; founded Visa’s inaugural International Tourism Summit at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and represented Visa on President Barack Obama’s Travel and Tourism Advisory Board (TTAB) (2009-11) and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Additional responsibilities included budget management, government relations, investor communications, event coordination and strategic planning.

Foster City, California, Us

Communications strategy and counsel for markets including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Responsibilities included: Managing PR agencies in several markets, coordinating all written and presentation materials for country managers, media relations, collateral production, member bank PR team coordination, public affairs, government relations and budget management, with an additional specialty in tourism/cross-border spending. Highlights include: Established Visa's travel and tourism initiatives to aid in recovery of markets affected by the 2004 tsunami; selected and supervised PR agencies, coordinating all in-market media and government relations; successfully negotiated and managed Visa’s involvement in APEC Business Summits in Hanoi (2006) and Sydney (2007).

Asia Pacific, Auckland, Melbourne, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, Jakarta, Id

Strategic communications and public relations counsel for several multinational corporations and government statutory boards. Clients included: Abacus International, American President Lines (APL), Gulf Air, Microsoft, Neptune Orient Lines (NOL Group), Reuters, Singapore Tourism Board, Visa and Volkswagen. Seconded for two years (2000-02) as Communications Manager for Asia/Middle East Region for APL and APL Logistics. Responsibilities included: Communications strategy and counsel (external, internal, crisis), writing and media liaison.

Arlington, Va, Us

This was part of my secondment from Baldwin Boyle Shand (see above). Highlight: Spearheaded communications around President William Clinton’s visit to APL’s Ho Chi Minh City facility (2000).

Munich, De

Responsibilities included: All advertising and public relations for Siemens' first franchise subsidiary. Planned, coordinated, budgeted, designed and wrote all advertising and public relations materials and programs at the corporate level, master franchisee level and single-unit franchisee level. Region included: Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines and China.

Research Director/Senior Copywriter for advertising/public relations firm. Strategy, market research and public relations counsel for several Delaware-based corporations including, Caesars International, First State Healthcare, Kao Corporation of Japan and Wilmington Saving Fund Society (WSFS).

Editor-in-Chief for weekly business and legal publication. Responsibilities included: Designing paper content and coordinating story ideas and budget; writing; page layout and photography. Previously Reporter/Staff Writer. Also, coordinated publication's computer system and online system, and wrote, produced and narrated a daily business report on WDEL-AM.