Makovsky Announces Staff Promotions

Three of nine promoted staff members earn title "Group Vice President."

Nine Promotions Include Three to Group Vice President

NEW YORK, July 8, 2009 – Makovsky + Company, one of the nation’s leading independent public relations and investor relations firms, today announced that it has promoted several key team members:

 
•      Kate Coyne, Michael Goodwin and David Rosen, all promoted to Group Vice President
•       Joshua Baldwin, promoted to Account Supervisor
•      Kristin D’Ambrosio, Travis Ferber, Olga Oksman and Liz Pierce, all promoted to Account Executive
•      Janet Yoo, promoted to Assistant Account Executive
  
"Staff focus on clients, and a company-wide commitment to talent development, are catalysts for growth," notes Ken Makovsky, president of Makovsky + Company.  "The firm places great emphasis on client retention, and therefore our people have to raise their personal bar, innovate and provide important ideas to protect customer reputation and business – that accomplishment fuels personal advancement."
 
Founded in 1979, Makovsky + Company (www.makovsky.com) is one of the nation’s leading independent global public relations and investor relations consultancies, focused in financial services, professional services, health, technology, branding/interactive and investor relations.  The firm attributes its success to its original vision: that the Power of Specialized Thinking™ is the best way to build reputation, sales and fair valuation for a client. Based in New York City, the firm has agency partners in 25 countries and in 37 U.S. cities through IPREX, the third largest worldwide public relations agency partnership, of which Makovsky is a founder.