Steven Blinn
With more than 17 years of public relations and marketing experience, Mr. Blinn has represented clients in financial services, healthcare, entertainment, technology, sports, radio and television, BtoB, pharmaceutical, publishing, politics and non-profit.

Prior to starting BlinnPR, Mr. Blinn was Director, Media Relations for Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). While at BMI, he oversaw the public relations activities for BMI's two revenue producing departments -- Media and General Licensing, and spearheaded the organization's foray into new technologies.

A frequent speaker on public relations, Mr. Blinn has appeared before such diverse groups as the National Park Service, Fordham University, the New York New Media Association, New York Software Industry Association and the American Women Economic Development Corp., among others. He has also been quoted in American Banker, Inc., Working Woman, PRWeek, Emerging Business, Entrepreneur magazine, the Los Angeles Times and PR News, and his by-line has appeared in PRWeek, O'Dwyer's and Marketing News.

A resident of New York City, Mr. Blinn earned bachelor's and master's degrees from St. John's University and Adelphi University, respectively.

Beth Brody, Consultant
Ms. Brody has assisted clients both large and small, in industries as varied as high technology and healthcare to entertainment and publishing. Her creativity and media contacts have greatly contributed to her success and those of her clients.

Ms. Brody has worked with Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Foundations Behavioral Health, Janssen Pharmaceutical, JVC, Educational Testing Service and Full Moon Publishing, among others.

Ms. Brody currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NJ Communications, Advertising and Marketing Association. In addition, she has spoken to numerous professional organizations, including the Public Relations Society of America and the Cable Television Network of New Jersey.

Ms. Brody earned a B.S. degree in Communications, Television and Radio and a minor in English from Ithaca College's School of Communications. She also mentors interns from Rutgers University, Rider University and The College of New Jersey.

John Chapman
Since joining BlinnPR in October of 1999, John Chapman has excelled at obtaining media coverage for BlinnPR clients like the WWF, Mellon Financial, Open Business Exchange, ShipXact and the Children's Restoration Network, among others. Mr. Chapman also has secured numerous speaking opportunities for BlinnPR clients at some of the top industry conferences, including CFO Rising, Streaming Media West, CIO Perspectives, Business Week CIO Summit and DCI's eCustomer Conference & Exposition, to name a few.

Before BlinnPR, Mr. Chapman worked at Unified Field, a Web development firm. Mr. Chapman contributed to the design, functionality and marketing recommendations for the New Media arms of the Empire State Development Corporation, Steve Madden and the Children's Museum of Manhattan.

Mr. Chapman earned a bachelor's degree in Marketing from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Andrew Edson
Andrew Edson serves of counsel to BlinnPR. He has a strong pedigree in the financial services arena and has worked a wide variety of companies, including investment banks Inter-Regional Financial Group and Investment Advisers Inc., banks such as Chase Manhattan, Chemical, Norwest, Credit Lyonnais, Sumitomo Trust, BAII and PNC, insurers The St. Paul, Nippon Life, The Principal Financial Group and LifeUSA, and private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, among others.

Previously, Mr. Edson served as president and chief operating officer of Anreder and Company, a New York-based corporate and investor relations specialist which he joined in early 1994.

Before that, he spent more than 15 years at Padilla Speer Beardsley Inc., a top 30 firm, as a senior vice president and managing partner. He joined the Minneapolis-headquartered counseling firm in 1978 and eventually became head of its New York office, an equity owner and director. Under his tenure, the New York office grew into one of the leading financial services practice firms in the country. He was also a founder of The WORLDCOM Group, Inc. -- the largest consortium of independently owned public relations counseling firms in the world -- and served as Group secretary and a director from its inception in 1988 to 1995.

On the corporate side, Mr. Edson was public affairs manager for Citicorp, the large bankholding company, where he was responsible for its public and investor relations activity in the continental U.S., as well as its non-bank units (1974-78.)

He holds a BA in American history and government from Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, and an MA in history from the University of Memphis. He was accredited by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute.

Bernadette Suski Harding
Bernadette Suski Harding has worked with a diverse array of clients from publishing to technology. In addition to being an award-winning copy writer, she has booked and traveled on national media tours, coached spokespersons, and given radio and television interviews at stations across the U.S. She also appears monthly on News 12 NJ's ODaytime EditionO as a volunteer spokesperson for SAVE, Princeton, New Jersey's no-kill animal shelter.

Ms. Harding's experience includes seven years as a newspaper reporter and editor (she launched a chain of successful weekly newspapers in southern New Jersey) and three years with a public relations agency specializing in the travel industry. While there, Ms. Harding handled PR activities for Cruise Lines International Association, Aer Lingus and Travel Weekly. She has also worked with the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors' Authority and the Adirondack Regional Tourism Council, among others.

Ms. Harding earned a BA degree, magna cum laude, in Journalism and a minor in Literature from Pace University in White Plains, NY.

Patricia Limoges
During the past 14 years Ms. Limoges has worked with senior corporate management, mutual fund portfolio managers, market strategists, economists and equity analysts in the financial services sector and more recently in the biotech, medical device, professional services and e-commerce industries.

Financial services experience includes CDC Mortgage Capital, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Ladenburg, Thalmann, Inc., the Nicholas-Applegate, Quest/Oppenheimer and Pacific Horizon mutual fund groups, Schroder & Co., Inc., Security Benefit Group, Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc., among others.

Ms. Limoges served for three years as Director, Media Relations for the New York office of The Hawthorn Group, where she was responsible for all media relations activity on behalf of the company's financial and corporate practices.

Previously, Ms. Limoges was a Vice President at Rubenstein Associates, where she was responsible for planning and implementing media relations activities on behalf of financial services firms. She also served as Senior Vice President at Lee Laino Associates and as Vice President at Arlen Financial Communications.

A Canadian and a graduate of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, she has also attended McGill University, Montreal, PQ, and the New York Institute of Finance.

Tara McBride
Tara McBride brings over 17 years of experience in marketing and public relations to BlinnPR. Ms. McBride's love of the Performing Arts led her early on to a career as press representative for many of the world's leading ballet and performance companies including The Kirov Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group and Phillip Glass, among others. Her equal passion of fine food and dining inspired her work promoting the James Beard Award-Winning chef Sarabeth Levine.

In addition, Ms. McBride has worked with an interesting array technology companies including Association for Interactive Marketing, Blackboard, ClosingGuard, EmployeeMatters.com, Eppraisals.com, GEfn, Open Business Exchange, Mellon Financial, and many others.

Whether promoting The Arts, fine fine cuisine or technology, Ms. McBride has consistently achieved top-tier media placements including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, IBD, Associated Press, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Industry Standard, Forbes, Money, Bloomberg, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR's All Things Considered, The Joan Hamburg Show, and many more.