
John W. DeWitt, a business communicator since 1985, has been a journalist, entrepreneur, acting vice president of marketing for two technology firms, and consultant to nearly 100 companies. He also currently serves as chief marketing officer for Utility Auditing.
Formerly co-
founder and
CEO of an
Atlanta-based
high-tech
marketing firm,
John also has
held executive
positions at
two leading
agencies – Ketchum/Crescent and Fleishman-Hillard. At FH’s New York office, he led the 30-member international team serving enterprise software company J.D. Edwards, which beat Microsoft, PeopleSoft and Citrix to win the 2001 Silver SABRE for best software PR program.
In addition to communications consulting, John is editor of Digital Signage Update, a twice-monthly, 70,000-plus circulation e-newsletter published by Sound & Video Contractor Magazine, and frequently contributes to American City & County and other magazines. Nominated three times for the Jesse H. Neal Award, the "Pulitzer Prize of Business Journalism," John is author of nearly 2,000 published articles.
Based in New Salem, Mass., where he serves as an elected member of the school committee for Swift River School, John holds a B.A. degree in English and foreign languages from Birmingham-Southern College.
managed PR campaigns for Sun Microsystems, Boston Analytics, Nara Luxury MedSpa, TruePoint, Hentzenwerke, Neoware, Yahoo! and numerous other technology, business-to-business, and consumer companies – both as an independent consultant and during stints at two of the top
Jon Lavietes has 15 years of communications experience, including 12 years as a public relations executive and business writer. Jon has
five global PR agencies, Fleishman-Hillard and Burson-Marsteller. At Fleishman-Hillard’s San Francisco office, Jon led product line PR programs for enterprise software vendor J.D. Edwards, the 2001 Silver SABRE winner and a finalist for the 2002 PR Week “Hi-Tech Campaign of the Year,” 2002 Gold SABRE award, and the 2002 American Business Awards (a.k.a. “The Stevies”).
Based in San Francisco, Jon holds a B.A. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, and early in his career worked in PR positions for the San Jose Sharks and San Francisco Giants.
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