AOMC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Illustrator
Bob has more than two decades of experience as a graphic designer working in many artistic mediums. In addition to serving as art/creative director for with several major advertising agencies, including Mintz & Hoke in Connecticut and Leo Burnett in Chicago, Bob is an illustrator and has had his cartoons published in the Saturday Evening Post and Utne Reader.
Since opening his own studio in 1996, Bob has designed websites and interactive projects for a diverse client base, including Workforce Alliance, Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center, Axis Logistics, Seacrest Retirement, Co-Efficiency, KeepMeHome, Action Nurses, Envelopes and More, and Gorvello Café. He has also received a host of awards for his design work, including a CLIO, Communication Arts Annual, Design Magazine Annual, and Connecticut Art Directors Club. To visit Bob's website, go to www.bobbreno.com.
Erica brings over five years of administrative and customer service experience to Andrea Obston Marketing Communication. Before joining the team, Erica worked for a local Connecticut plumbing supply house where she was the Showroom Sales Assistant. There she handled client inquiries as well as offering a consistent, organized and welcoming environment.
Erica also worked as Project Lead for a Fortune 500 company, where she obtained years of experience working with the public along with an extensive list of administrative skills. Erica studied at Delaware State University where she majored in public relations.
Jenny has more than 20 years of public relations and marketing experience. She partners with Andrea Obston Marketing Communications to provide account management and tactical support. She was formerly director of public relations for The Pita Group, located in Connecticut. There she handled the development and implementation of public relations and marketing communications strategies for not-for-profit organizations.
Prior to that, Jenny served as vice president/account supervisor at Durazo Communications, an L.A.-based public relations agency active in the Hispanic/Latino market. While there, she led initiatives to assist the California Department of Health Services educate the state's Latino communities about the health hazards associated with tobacco use.
Jenny also served as communications director for the United Way of Puerto Rico (Fondos Unidos de Puerto Rico) and the Gales Ferry, Connecticut-based United Way of Southeastern Connecticut. In her time as director, Jenny developed and implemented various public relations programs, planned and managed events, and supported volunteer allocations committees.
Jenny has an MBA in international marketing from Rensselaer Polytechnic University's Hartford campus and a BA in journalism from Ohio Wesleyan University. The Public Relations Society of America's Connecticut chapters named Jenny Public Relations Practitioners of the Year in 2008
Ron Obston is an SEO content producer committed to helping organizations deliver their best message to their online audience. That's why he specializes in search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is the art and science that creates web pages to engage people and rank in search engines. Ron helps us accomplish this by researching and crafting the content that's most useful to the people who seek it. He believes searchers deserve content crafted for them, so that it's useful, empathetic and inspired by relevant information. He helps to upgrade your website to make it self-evident to your audience so they see what they can get from it. You benefit from his carefully-honed skills of more than two decades creating Internet content. His skills are the ones baked into the DNA of a television producer to connect with diverse audiences. He produced a daily magazine show, created medical education videos for hospitals and medical device companies, directed live surgery webcasts from operating rooms. For more than 15 years, Ron served roles as vice president of broadcast operations, executive producer, writer-producer, and account executive at BroadcastMed in Farmington, CT. Earlier in his career, he was an executive producer at Ciné-Med in Woodbury, CT, producing surgical procedure videos to train nurses and doctors. Before that, he was executive producer of a daily magazine show at WFSB Channel 3 in Hartford, CT.
Teresa is a rising public relations professional with experience in strategic communications, social media and management. Before her start at AOMC, she previously interned with the office of Public Affairs at Quinnipiac University working on event planning and guest relations. She is a current senior at the university and a member of Lamda Pi Eta, communications honor society and Kappa Delta's Vice President of Community Service. She will be graduating this May with a Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations, along with a psychology minor.