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Robert Nersesian has more than 20 years of experience as a communications consultant and executive. He has worked across a number of industry sectors – telecommunications, financial services, retailing, nonprofit and manufacturing – involving such communications specialties as public affairs, speechwriting, media relations, community relations, employee communications and philanthropy. He has served as head speechwriter and executive communications leader for AT&T International and ADP, helping reposition the companies and giving them a distinctive executive voice.Mr. Nersesian successfully led a grassroots campaign to open up the New York State local telecommunications market for AT&T, resulting in annual savings of $150 million for the corporation and providing a rationale for other states to open their local markets. This result was followed by successful grassroots campaigns in New Jersey and Massachusetts.Mr. Nersesian revamped media relations practices in AT&T’s consumer services division, achieving in his first year there three times the number of positive national print articles compared to the previous year.As a consultant, he has also worked on projects for Walmart Stores, LRN, IBM, Merrill Lynch, the San Francisco Foundation, the New Jersey Policy Research Organization, and The Arthritis Foundation. For Walmart, he has researched minority demographics and trends in 15 U.S. metropolitan areas and, in a separate project, identified nonprofit organizations ready to have a long-term relationship with the retailer. For this same client, he has consulted on diversity strategies and programs and provided program recommendations to deepen local relationships during a major reorganization.He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Virginia, and holds master’s degrees from Yale University and New York University’s Stern School of Business in fine arts and business, respectively.Specialties: public relations, public policy, non-profit formation, media relations, community relations, speechwriting, grassroots organizing, employee communications, research, general writing, editing

Listed skills include Internal Communications, Media Relations, Press Releases, Speech Writing, and 18 others.