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
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
