Ron Bartlett Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managing Director, Florida (2017-Present)Co-lead the Florida operation, including a staff of 15 based in Tampa and Tallahassee. Develop the company’s strategic plan for Florida and handle all financial reporting. • Directed a broad-based coalition on behalf of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Consumer Protection Coalition, seeking property insurance reforms in the Florida Legislature. General Manager (2015-2017)Similar duties to Managing Director, Florida.• Led significant financial turnaround from an annual loss to a profit of $1 million in just one year.• Personally won more than $1.5 million in new business by securing one of Florida’s leading agricultural firms as a client.Senior Vice President (2006-2015)• Opened and hired staff for the company’s first full-time office in Tallahassee.• Won a 2008 Holmes Report Gold Sabre in the Issues Management Category for helping to secure $300 million for the Medicaid Meds-Ad and Medically Needy programs on behalf of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida and the Florida Hospital Association. The SABRE Awards attract close to 5,000 entries globally each year, providing the premier showcase of the best that public relations has to offer.• Won a 2007 Silver Sabre in the Health Providers Category for helping to secure $200 million for Florida’s Low Income Pool program, which support hospitals caring for the poor and uninsured. Vice President (2003-2006)• Won a 2005 Silver Anvil, Public Service Category, from the Public Relations Society of America for a medical liability insurance reform campaign.• Won a 2003 Won Award of Excellence, Public Service Category, from the Public Relations Society of America and 2003 Image Award from the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association for a Pinellas County Voter Education program.

Florida’s state-run property insurer of last resort, created after 1992’s Hurricane Andrew caused the state’s property insurance market to collapse. Today, known as Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Communications ManagerDirected the media, government and stakeholder relations at the agency. Reported to the Executive Director and the Board of Governors.• Established the first communications office for the JUA, working with a broad array of internal and external stakeholders.• Served as liaison to the media, the governor’s office, legislative committees, the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, the state Insurance Consumer Advocate, the insurance industry and agent trade groups. Handled consumer inquiries.

Tallahassee, Tampa And Sebring

Major daily newspaper with, at its peak, circulation of about 300,000 (daily) and 500,000 (Sunday), serving West Central Florida. Capital Bureau Chief, Tallahassee, FL (1993-1996)Directed a staff of six full-time reporters and photographers. Wrote a weekly column on state politics and government.• Supervised and edited special multi-page coverage each day throughout the annual 60-day Florida legislative session.• Led and edited investigative reporting on corruption in Florida’s prison system and political influence on the admissions process at Florida’s state universities. Editor, Heartland Edition, Sebring, FL (1992-1993)Led the day-to-day operations of seven-day-a-week edition of the Tribune covering Highlands, Hardee and DeSoto counties. Directed a staff of eight photographers, reporters and editors.• Directed coverage of several national news stories, including an Arcadia fruit picker falsely convicted of poisoning his children, two young boys with HIV who were shunned by their community, and an accidental baby swap at a hospital. Reporter, Tampa, FL, Sebring, FL, Trenton, NJ, Flemington, NJ (1985-1992)Covered government and law enforcement beats and worked on major investigative reports.• Pulitzer Prize nominee in 1991 for investigative series on the Florida Marine Patrol.• First Place Award in Public Service by the New Jersey Press Association for a series on hazardous waste dump sites.

Flemington, N. J.

Worked as Bureau Chief and Reporter in the Express' Flemington, N.J. bureau, covering Hunterdon Country, N.J.

Princeton, N.J. And Highstown, N.J.

General assignment reporter in Princeton and Hightstown.

Mba

Ba, Journalism, English

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