Upright Position Communications

San Francisco Bay Area, California United States

With feet-on-the-ground experience working on both US coasts and in Asia, I specialize in global corporate, tourism, tech and IPO PR with a focus on telling compelling stories, garnering on-message media coverage and providing sound strategic counsel. Prior to starting my own business, I most recently headed public relations for Splunk, where I led communications around one of 2012’s most successful IPOs. Splunk was my second IPO (I worked on the communications team for Visa’s IPO in 2008). Before Splunk, I managed global public relations at Visa Inc. with a focus on the company’s travel and tourism business, utilizing their vast resources of spend data to emphasize the global impact of...