Tom Mullen Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Oversee all external content and editorial initiatives, including writing executive speeches, thought leadership articles, white papers, press releases and media statements; planning, assigning and editing posts for social channels and the company blog; and working with product teams to conceive and maintain all web and app copy.Manage in-house PR team and.

• Manage key communication processes and create external, multi-faceted editorial content for automotive fintech startup. Work cross-functionally between marketing, product, design and brand teams – as well as executive.
• Collaborate with Fair CEO Scott Painter in writing bi-weekly articles for Inc.com, focusing on fundraising, company-building, and other entrepreneurial topics.
• Write external communications for stakeholders and potential investors that frame Fair’s key messages and advantageously position the company in the auto fintech space.
• Conduct and oversee writing of Fair’s white papers, coordinating and scheduling multiple ongoing projects with company subject matter experts in finance, risk and other disciplines.
• Work with Chief Marketing Officer Help and Head of Brand to develop brand-related strategy and content, including defining and building a slate of key buyer personas, helping identify and craft our primary value.
• Interface with Director of Communications and external public relations team from Edelman PR in maximizing Fair media opportunities, including writing company press releases, crafting responses to media inquiries.

New York, NY, US

• Developed and successfully pitched movie ideas for top entertainment producers and talent, including Sandra Bullock, Chris Pratt, Ice Cube and Dwayne Johnson. Have sold 10 feature & television screenplays to studios.
• Housesitters (ABC Network)
• Vacation Friends (20th Century Fox)
• Sullivan's Sluggers (Broken Road Productions)
• Harvey Richards: Lawyer for Kids (New Line Cinema)
• The Swap (Columbia Pictures)

Directed and executed marketing and communications strategies for Los Angeles-based environmental software startup, producing all advertising and web materials, writing a regular blog, generating press releases and client proposals, managing social media and Google Adwords accounts, and driving online and organic brand awareness through in-person and.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Managed external communications and media strategies for international investment bank based in Los Angeles, ranked as the #1 merger & acquisition advisor for transactions under $1 billion
• Created advertising campaigns and wrote executive speeches, articles and white papers
• Edited more than a dozen monthly newsletters sent to analysts, CEOs and corporate officers across our various industry-focused investment banking practices
• Wrote press releases and fostered media relationships across a wide breadth of mainstream and financial publications, driving a considerable increase in media coverage and queries for our in-house industry experts
• Initiated and managed a trade publication media outreach program, resulting in our food & beverage practice co-sponsoring an annual conference with Stagnito Publishing, and the head of our consumer group writing a.

• Managed public relations for nation’s second-largest private transit provider
• Identified and pitched stories to media, and wrote articles for targeted trade publications
• Regularly interfaced with the dozens of local and regional government entities we served and managed numerous public outreach efforts, including promotional campaigns for new service routes and facilities
• Developed a speaker's bureau and crisis communications program, both of which we relied on when one of our premier transit systems, Foothill Transit in the San Gabriel Valley, had to extract itself from two inherited.
• Managed ATC’s national sponsorship of Serena’s Song, the world’s first wheelchair accessible hot-air balloon. Handled publicity and coordinated all aspects of appearances in cities across the country. Efforts garnered.

New York, NY, US

• Researched and wrote national, regional and statewide stories for the world’s largest newsgathering organization. Working under strict deadline, areas of coverage included general news, statehouse issues, crime.
• Regularly ran state news desks, responsible for assigning, editing and supervising all AP stories distributed to dozens of member newspapers, and news and radio stations.
• Coordinated national reporting of many breaking news stories, including an Oklahoma State University plane crash that killed 10 people associated with its basketball program
• Covered Oklahoma football team throughout its 2001 national championship season
• Reported on numerous high-profile court cases, including hearings for convicted Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols and an estate case involving Elian Gonzalez
• Personally covered six executions, including background stories on trials and coverage of appeal hearings and protests

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Enlisted as a military journalist with the 103rd Public Affairs Detachment, where I produced news stories, press releases and escorted media during multiple training exercises and military operations, including a NATO.
• Received highest graduating honors out of more than 50 students in the Basic Journalist Course at the Defense Information School in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., in June 1994
• During six-month NATO deployment, escorted reporters from all major networks as well as New York Times and Discovery Channel. Also wrote and edited a publication based in Taszar, Hungary, for U.S. soldiers engaged in.
• Distinguished Honor Graduate from Officer Candidate School, which included rigorous leadership and tactical training, as well as intensive physical conditioning. Graduated with a commission as an infantry lieutenant.