LCI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Account Executive
- Assistant
Andie Davis is a recent University of Oregon graduate ready to dive head-first into the public relations world. During her time as an Oregon Duck, Andie was an active member of her school's Public Relations Student Society of America, helping them recruit new members and telling featured members' stories through social media.
Prior to joining Landis Communications Inc., Andie oversaw creative communications for the Marin County Department of Cultural Services, where she managed their social media, wrote press releases and hosted events. These events included the first-ever virtual Marin County Fair, drive-thru summer and Halloween celebrations, virtual contests and Frank Lloyd Wright virtual tours - all designed to help build a sense of community during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Andie also has helped develop a strategic campaign for 90by30, a Lane County, Oregon-based non-profit focused on reducing child abuse and neglect. The campaign aimed to reduce the stigma around talking about a difficult subject while also helping the broader community understand its role in preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens.
Andie always brings her "A-game" and creative skills to the table with her experience in Adobe Premiere, graphic design and social media.
When she is not working, Andie enjoys visiting SFMOMA, taking her Siberian Husky, Indie, to the beach, brushing up on her photography skills and finding the best restaurants and hangouts in San Francisco. Contact Andie at: andie@landispr.com.
Job Titles:
- Senior Account Executive
- Member of the Seattle
As Senior Account Executive, Andy Lowe joins the Landis team with a 4-year background in public relations and copywriting. Since graduating from Central Washington University and completing a communications certification from the University of Washington, he has worked with clients, including Microsoft Education, Cabela's, One Reel, Evident, Jellyfish and Farm to Plate.
At LCI, Andy is responsible for developing and implementing clients' PR campaigns and plans to generate targeted results. Media placement is important; however, Andy is keen on telling complex and rich client stories with external and internal narratives. Prior to agency life, Andy worked as a freelance PR and copywriting consultant for nonprofits, family-owned businesses and private psychology practices.
Outside of communications, Andy is a life-long learner, recently earning a diploma in copywriting from The Blackford Centre and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) from the Project Management Institute.
Using creativity and observation, Andy is an active member of the Seattle music scene, playing bass in bluegrass and psychedelic rock bands. Additionally, he is an avid fly angler and budding mushroom hunter.
Whether it is nonprofit, environmental, healthcare, AgTech or another industry, Andy approaches each client or project with interest and enthusiasm - asking the most important question: WHY?
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
Brianne Murphy Miller has spent close to 25 years in communications and marketing. As Senior Public Relations Counselor to LCI, she is responsible for strategic counsel to a myriad of LCI clients, as well as overseeing all sales, marketing and business development needs for the agency.
Prior to her work with LCI, Ms. Miller was VP Communications for TeeBeeDee, an online social network for baby boomers. The launch of that company was covered by media internationally and lauded as one of the hottest new tech start-ups of the year. Previously, she ran her own consultancy, B. & Company, for ten years, serving clients in the lifestyle, media, and tech industries.
Ms. Miller also was Director of Public Relations for Kamer Singer & Associates, a full service public relations and public affairs agency. There, she was responsible for the travel and hospitality division and new business. Her first foray into consumer technology was as Vice President of Marketing for Ifusion.com, which developed push technology software. She joined Ifusion.com after more than five years as Communications Director at Sunset Publishing Corporation. In that capacity, Ms. Miller was in charge of all public relations programs for the largest publishing company in the Western United States. She also helped launch their new media division, consumer expo programs and oversaw all trade show publicity efforts.
Before migrating West, Ms. Miller worked in her native New York City for fashion designer Adrienne Vittadini and at GLAMOUR Magazine. She started her career at advertising agency Wells, Rich, Greene Inc., where she was part of the team that began the resurgent popularity of the Senior PGA Tour with client Liberty Mutual Insurance. Ms. Miller is a graduate of Fairfield University and holds a B.A. in English and Communications. She is a former board member of the San Francisco Public Relations Roundtable, has been guest lecturer at University of California Berkeley, and is involved in numerous local charities.
As of October 1, 2021, David Landis is the retired Founder of San Francisco-based Landis Communications Inc. (LCI) and Sean Dowdall is the new President of LCI. LCI has been named America's best Public Relations Firm (Small Firm) by Ragan's Ace Awards, as well as PRSA SF's top Bay Area firm and "a top Bay Area LGBTQ-owned firm" by the San Francisco Business Times. 2020 marked the year that LCI celebrated 30 years of doing business in the Bay Area. The San Francisco member agency of the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) (www.prgn.com), LCI has 50 affiliate agency offices worldwide. Mr. Landis is a Past President of PRGN, is a founding Member of Forbes San Francisco Business Council and a founding member of the San Francisco Business Times Leadership Trust. LCI is the winner of IABC's Gold Quill Award, PRSA National's Silver Anvil Award, the Bulldog Award for media relations, is one of PR News' Agency Elite Top 100 agencies, has been named to Forbes' top 200 American agencies and has been named the #1 social media agency in the U.S. by TopPRAgencies.com. LCI also is certified by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), is a member of San Francisco's LGBT-focused Golden Gate Business Association, is a Corporate Diversity Supplier and is a certified local business enterprise (LBE) by the City of San Francisco. Mr. Landis is especially proud that the SF Business Times named the agency a top Bay Area corporate philanthropy donor in 2021.
With more than 30 years experience in public relations, brand management, digital strategies, social media, positioning, marketing, content marketing, analyst relations, media training, crisis communications, public affairs and community relations, David Landis has lent his expertise to a variety of national and Bay Area-based corporations. These include: healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical and biopharma companies, technology companies and startups, environmental organizations, financial institutions, real estate businesses, consumer technology businesses, consumer products, insurance companies, hospitality and travel-related businesses, retailers, consumer businesses, food/wine clients, entertainment businesses, educational institutions, broadcasters, fashion businesses, media, cultural institutions, sports organizations and non-profit organizations. Among the prestigious clients Mr. Landis has counseled over the years are: UCSF, Velodyne Lidar, Sutter Health, Stanford Children's Hospital, Walmart, Centre for Neuro Skills, Graton Casino and Resort and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, California Bank & Trust, Save The Redwoods League, Match.com, Peninsula Open Space Trust, MetLife, Emirates Airline, Whole Foods Market, NBC Universal, Old Navy, Sony, Cold Stone Creamery, eBates, Port of San Francisco, Raycop, Tiffany & Co., Pottery Barn, Planned Parenthood, Stanford University, San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, Bravo, Hilton Hotels, Gap, Levi Strauss & Co., Xerox, AAA, AT&T, Harry & David, PIER 39, San Francisco Symphony, KPIX-TV (San Francisco), KCBS-TV (Los Angeles), the Bay to Breakers footrace and more.
For 3 years, Mr. Landis taught public relations in the MBA program at San Francisco's Golden Gate University. A recipient of numerous awards, Mr. Landis is a published writer and has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley, University of San Francisco and Golden Gate University. David Landis currently writes for Forbes and the San Francisco Business Times, as well as penning a food/restaurant column for the San Francisco Bay Times called "The Gay Gourmet." In addition, David also has been a judge for Los Angeles' prestigious Taste Awards, highlighting the best food shows on television, in film and online.
Prior to launching LCI, Mr. Landis served as PR/Community Relations Director for KPIX TV, the San Francisco CBS affiliate. While there, he was part of a team that won the station two national Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. Before his work in television, Mr. Landis was PR Director of the San Francisco Symphony, where he helped open San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, inaugurate the organization's "New and Unusual Music" series with composer John Adams and promote the formation of the Symphony's Youth Orchestra as well as the introduction of then new music director Herbert Blomstedt.
In his volunteer capacities, Mr. Landis serves on the advisory boards of Project Open Hand (serving meals to people with life threatening diseases) and ODC, San Francisco's modern dance company, theatre and school (an organization with which he's been involved for 40 years). He also serves on the board of the City's Friends of Alta Plaza Park and has been instrumental in the formation of the neighborhood group Friends of Fern Alley in San Francisco. He is a past marketing committee member for the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet and SFMOMA. Mr. Landis also serves on the Advisory Board for the Amateur Music Network (AMN), which pairs amateur musicians with professional musicians. For the AMN, he also serves as Curator, interviewing such musical luminaries as composer Jake Heggie, opera star Sheri Greenawald, Broadway star Karen Mason and conductor Edwin Outwater.
Like every other PR professional, Mr. Landis studied piano in college (at Northwestern University in Chicago) and his first jobs included teaching piano to neighborhood children (at the ripe old age of 12).
Mr. Landis lives in San Francisco with his husband, LCI President Sean Dowdall. In his spare time enjoys music, theatre, travel, hiking, skiing, hanging out with his dogs Gaston & Alphonse and partaking in the culinary delights of San Francisco. David Landis' best celebrity meeting ever? The one and only Stephen Sondheim.
You can follow Mr. Landis everywhere online, including Twitter (@david_landis), Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram (@davidlandis1), Pinterest (davidlandisSF), Snapchat (davidlandis), Clubhouse, Medium and whatever new platform Silicon Valley has dreamed up since this biography was written.
Following almost 30 years in strategic communications and marketing roles across multiple sectors, Polly Winograd Ikonen is delighted to be back in agency service.
For the majority of her career, Polly has worked in leadership roles at major non-profit cultural institutions - Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the New York Philharmonic. In roles of increasing responsibility, Polly has managed teams and projects across the full MarComm spectrum: marketing and sales, media relations, digital communications, social media, branding and positioning, creative services (photography, web, video, graphic design, publications), audience development, community engagement, customer service and box office, hospitality, special events, leadership transitions and major anniversaries.
Prior to entering the world of non-profit arts, Polly began her career in the European luxury goods sector, running both consumer-facing and B2B public relations and marketing campaigns in the United States for Hermes, Lalique Crystal, Puiforcat silver, Finlandia Vodka, and other major brands. She also worked B2B in the healthcare IT sector, serving as vice president of marketing at Motive Medical Intelligence, where she oversaw the build and launch of Motive's first website, managed a PR firm and led marketing efforts that included conference presence, strategic partnerships and thought leadership. Polly began her career at the award-winning PR firm Nike Communications in New York.
Polly is also a lifelong choral singer and has been a member of the Grammy-nominated Pacific Edge Voices chorus in Berkeley since 2005; she currently serves on PEV's board and provides marketing counsel to the group. Previously, she was a member of San Francisco Bach Choir and served on its board for several years. As a volunteer, Polly helped to run the "Way to Grow" campaign at Oakland's Chabot Elementary School, raising over $300,000 for playground redevelopment and enhancement. Polly holds a B.A. in English, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Amherst College.
When she's not promoting organizations and activities that she loves, Polly enjoys time with her family in the East Bay, hiking, biking, swimming and traveling at every opportunity.
Job Titles:
- Digital Marketing, Video and Graphic Design
Job Titles:
- Video Specialist and Senior Counselor in Los Angeles