Rick Popko Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

Rick Popko is an experienced enterprise B2B and consumer technology public relations and analyst relations professional with expertise in planning and implementing international programs, including communication plan development. Specialties include company/product launches, funding announcements, media strategy and training and special event planning..

San Francisco, California, United States

Experienced enterprise and consumer technology public and analyst relations professional with expertise in planning and implementing international programs, including communication plan development and implementation, brand awareness, product launches, media strategy and training and special event planning. More than 13 years of experience working for.

San Francisco

• September '14 - Present: Account Director—10Fold Responsibilities include; Maintaining roughly $800K in annual revenue for the agency's network security practice; helped grow the security practice from eight to 12.
• Veriflow Series A funding campaign impressed Menlo Ventures (a Veriflow VC) so much, they referred Unravel (a new client of theirs) to us to act as their agency of record
• Instrumental for bringing in seven new clients to the agency in two years, including Unravel, DataVisor, RiskVision, Sansa Security (acquired by ARM), Soha Systems, Veriflow and Nyotron
• Executed a PR campaign on behalf of TrapX that helped to net the company more than 140 unique articles in business, IT trade and vertical press. And it generated more than 300 email sales leads and 125 webinar.

Sunnyvale, California

• March ’10 – Present: Public Relations Manager, Fortinet—Responsibilities include; writing, editing and distributing press releases, whitepapers, case studies, byline articles, blogs, award and speaking submissions.
• Expanded multimedia and social initiatives with recurring Network World Threat Landscape video podcast and increased viewership on the company’s blogs
• Established successful brand awareness programs that included topics such as IPv6, mobile security and advanced threat protection
• Launched awards program that netted multiple awards including Business Solutions’ “Best Channel Products,” CRN’s “Technical Innovation,” Security Products’ “Govie,” SC Magazine’s “Reader’s Trust” and Deloitte’s “Fast.
• Produced unique byline articles on the topics of cybercriminals, SCADA, cyberscams, zombie awareness and yearly threat predictions

San Francisco, California

• : Group Manager, Weber Shandwick--Responsibilities included; managing teams, budgets and client expectations, writing and editing press releases and bylined articles, developing and executing strategies, events and.
• Launched first high definition videoconferencing system for LifeSize Communications/Logitech
• Launched Popbox, which competes with Roku, Apple TV and Google Chrome
• Launched the world’s first terabyte hard drive (the Hitachi campaign garnered an industry SABRE award nomination and a NorCal PRSA Bronze Anvil win)
• Launched BEA’s virtualization strategy

San Francisco, California

Responsibilities included; producing, writing, assigning and editing news, reviews, overviews and feature stories and building/publishing content to the website. I also freelanced for the San Francisco Chronicle and Computer Shopper magazine.