About Us

Robert Wynne is a communications executive with more than 20 years experience in strategic marketing, public relations, event planning and journalism. Wynne held previous positions of leadership in public relations and marketing for a law firm, a developer, a downtown civic group and for the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He developed the strategic marketing plan for Marshall, promoting the school and its message to corporations, students, academics and the media. Wynne has provided strategic counsel, public relations and marketing strategies along with event planning and production for Cornell University's Johnson School, MIT, UCLA Law School, Raytheon, the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Creditel, Ferrari-Maserati, and many others. He also covered the television and film industry as a reporter for Newsweek magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a master's degree in communications from the University of Texas at Austin. Wynne created the Business Access Media (BAM) conference, which brings the world's top MBA programs to New York each year to meet with the top financial media at Deutsche Bank, UBS and similar venues. In 2009, Wynne began a monthly column on public relations for Forbes.com.

Andreas Ramos is the author of Search Engine Marketing (McGraw-Hill 2009). The book has just been published in China by Tsing Hua University, the leading technology university in China. He has written six books about the web and HTML, including one of the first books on web design in 1996. Andreas manages SEO, PPC, analytics, and social media marketing strategies for clients, including Stanford University and MIT's OpenCourseWare. He worked at SGI and SUN during the Silicon Valley dotcom boom. Born in Colombia, Andreas has a Masters from the Universität Heidelberg, Germany, and is fluent in English, German, Danish, and Spanish.

Parvane Lilly is a communications consultant with experience in creating and executing events and running branding campaigns. She started work in New York in the fashion industry with high-end designers like Brian Reyes and J Mendel. She launched PR campaigns with Fashion Magazine Editors (including Vogue, WWD, InStyle, Elle and the New York Times) and executed large-scale events and fashion shows in Bryant Park. Parvane gained her education in public relations from UCSD, where she studied Communications and interned in the professional world at the local ABC News affiliate in San Diego. Today she works on events and public relations for clients including local law firms, an aerospace company and higher education.