DEAN DRAZNIN COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons

Amie Dehner has more than 25 years of experience in communications and marketing, working primarily for public relations agencies. Her wealth of expertise includes positioning and promoting products, services and companies; planning and executing communications programs to support critical business objectives; and organizing and managing processes and people to deliver results for clients. She has been an independent communications consultant and has held management-level positions in public relations at Xerox Corporation, FitzGerald Communications, Hill and Knowlton, The Strayton Corporation and Ingalls Associates Public Relations. She was also a staff reporter for The Newington Town Crier. Amie graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications. She resides in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Anna Walsh has more that 10 years of experience in PR and marketing, providing senior-level communications counsel to clients. She has been an independent communications consultant and has held in-house positions in public relations for a wide range of companies in multiple industries, including Random House, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mullen, Ruder Finn, Brunner, MARC USA, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. Her broad national and local media relations skills have been primarily focused on the book publishing, health and wellness, food, restaurant, business, and healthcare sectors. Anna graduated from Hamilton College. She resides in New Haven, Connecticut.

With over a decade in public relations, Dara Shlifka has built a reputation as an aggressive media relations pro who wins top coverage for clients in national outlets including CNN, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. In the past, her success for Smoothie King, which featured a "free smoothie day" promotion, was a major national success for franchisees-penetrating radio and TV in every market. Dara has been involved in marcom, product launches, and brand-building for companies in a wide range of industries. She works tirelessly to find creative, new ways to garner attention for her clients. She is known for thinking out of the box and providing exceptional focus for every account she services.

Diane has over 20 years experience in public relations, marketing, and business development. Her focus has been in the fundraising, publishing, consumer, and internet sectors bringing energy and enthusiasm to client projects. She was responsible for marketing at ArtSelect, one of the first top tier internet retailers serving the home décor market, and Human Factors International, the world's leading provider of user experience design. She also excelled at business development at Books Are Fun, the largest direct marketer of books in the US, winning awards for her contributions. A pioneer using social media for business, she understands how to adapt new media tools to showcase clients and their products. A skilled strategist, she is knowledgeable about integrating social media into successful public relations campaigns.

Jane offers more than 20 years experience in integrated public relations, investor relations, corporate and employee communications for the Fortune 500. Before joining Draznin, Jane served as vice president of public relations for Mullen Communications, Inc a full service creative agency and Frank About Women, a marketing to women consultancy (part of Interpublic Group). Prior to this position, Jane held a variety of senior executive level positions with Companies and agencies including Key3Media Group, producers of more than 40 events in 17 countries, Movielink, a broadband video on-demand company owned by five of the major movie studios, The Phoenix Companies (NYSE:PNX), a wealth management investment Company, EchoMail, an interactive agency and others. Jane has handled corporate communications strategies, media relations and event programs for a wide variety of corporations, including Allstate, American Express, Bissell Homecare, Calvin Klein, CitiGroup, Computer Science Corp (CSC), Computer Associates, IBM, JC Penney, Microsoft, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Oracle, Procter & Gamble, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Unilever, and many more. Additional experience includes writing for business publications/news outlets including; Buyside Magazine (Institutional Money Manger Publications), Profit Magazine, Investor Relations Magazine, Massachusetts Investors Digest, Springfield Republican, Westfield Evening News and WCVB, Channel 5. Jane received her Bachelors of Arts in Journalism/Technical Writing from Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island. She has held National Association of Security Dealers (NASD) Series 6 and 26 investment licenses

In addition to writing corporate prose, Patricia Draznin is the author of The Oh Zone, a humor column for the Fairfield Weekly Reader in Fairfield, Iowa, and a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The Oh Zone archive is available on her web site at www.writingtogo.com. Patricia also writes a film review column for a Midwest literary magazine, The Iowa Source. She also writes and performs standup comedy.

Sandra's in-depth business experience in marketing, communications, customer relations, research and documentation, keeps our office humming like a well-oiled machine. Sandra manages the strategic flow of our business activity. She coordinates our scheduling, she executes our intensive research operations, she produces our detailed output reports, she oversees our day-to-day communications, and she troubleshoots whatever dares to get in our way so we can all keep moving at the speed of success.

Terri is an award-winning public relations professional, with 15 years of experience. Her focus has been in healthcare, fitness, consumer, Internet, software and non-profit organizations. She held senior level positions with Hill and Knowlton, Inc. where she was a director for four years, and with the Yankee Group, where she served as an industry analyst. She was also a vice president with Rogers Communications in Boston specializing in technology PR. Recognition for Terri's past achievements include a Public Relations Society of America Silver Anvil Award, two Bell Ringers and an award from Marketing Computers for outstanding PR for a high tech start-up company.