Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
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Waggener Edstrom are a public relations agency, founded in 1983 and with offices in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the USA. They work mainly with technology companies and have done a lot of work with Bill Gates and Microsoft throughout their history.
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Background
Timeline of Waggener Edstrom's history:
- 1983 - Melissa Waggener Zorkin creates The Waggener Group in Portland, Oregon.
- 1984 - Pam Edstrom joins the company.
- 1990 - Pam Edstrom awarded a partnership in the company and Waggener Group becomes Waggener Edstrom.
- 2000 - Waggener Edstrom Bioscience, now the Healthcare practice, formed.
- 2001 - London office opened.
- 2003 - Purchase New-York based PR firm Maloney & Fox.
- 2005 - Acquire Shout Holdings Limited, which has offices in Hong Kong, China and Singapore.
- 2005 - Name changed to Waggener Edstrom Worldwide [1]
APPC
Waggener Edstrom are not members of the Association of Professional Political Consultants, therefore their clients and staff do not appear on the registers.
People
- Melissa Waggener Zorkin, CEO, president and founder
- Pam Edstrom, agency partner and co-founder, North America technology leader
- Julie Allport, executive vice president, chief of staff
- Dawn Beauparlant, president, Microsoft account
- Michael Bigelow, chief administrative officer
- Jennifer Granston Foster, chief operating officer
- Corey Kalbfleisch, chief financial officer
- Chris Talago, executive vice eresident, EMEA
- Matthew Lackie, senior vice president, Asia Pacific[2]
Clients
Abbott | Avanade | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Bing | BMC Software | Casio | Chevron | Clinton Foundation | Connected Car Pavilion | Earth Networks | Emergent Biosolutions | GE Healthcare | Get Fit | GIPC | Half the Sky | Hey Big Fish Web App | HTC | Jagermeister | Nethope Academy | Net Impact | Microsoft | Office 365 | Pfizer | Sasquatch Music Festival | Shire | Staples | Texas Instruments DLP | Trilogy International Partners | United Nations Foundation | Tweet-A-Beer | Unicef | Volvo | Women for Women International | Xplore Technologies[3][4]
Former clients
Symantec Corp | Mentor Graphics | Mindset Software | Sequent Computer Systems | IBM Personal Systems | Data I/O Corp | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | Dell Computer Corp | Scientific American Inc | Disney Interactive | Virgin Interactive | Sega Corp | EMI Record Group | SAP AG | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | VoiceStream Wireless (now T-mobile) |MSR Cambridge | DLP | Zappar | Johns Hopkins International Medical Center | Cloudant | Skype | Akamai | GameStop[1]
Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes
Publications
Contact
London Office
- Address: Tower House
- Fourth Floor
- 10 Southampton Street
- Covent Garden
- London, WC2E 7HA
- United Kingdom
- Phone: +44 20 7632 3800
- Email: careers@waggeneredstrom.com
- Website: http://waggeneredstrom.com/
Resources
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Timeline Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014
- ↑ Leadership Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014
- ↑ What we do, our work Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014
- ↑ What we do, clients Waggener Edstrom, accessed 4 November 2014
