BRIAN O’CONNOR returns to the PRSA-LA Board of Directors for a third year to serve as the chapter's President-Elect.  He also serves as Co-Chair of the annual PRism Awards.  He is director of marketing & public relations for Cunard Line, the iconic Brithish ocean liner company that operates QUEEN MARY 2 and QUEEN VICTORIA.

JOSEFINA MORA is a seasoned public relations/marketing professional with experience in consumer focused public relations accounts, branding, and entertainment marketing.

Currently she serves as Marketing Director for the Pasadena Playhouse District Association. Her day-to-day activities include overseeing and managing marketing and public relation campaigns, branding, and event execution.

ERIK DEUTSCH, Principal of ExcelPR Group, began his career in PR more than 15 years ago, working with large agencies and boutique firms before launching ExcelPR Group in 2004. He also worked on the flip side of the PR/journalism equation as a writer and editor for Phillips Business Information. In 1995, he helped launch Interactive PR News -- the first national newsletter on new media for public relations professionals.

DENNIS KAISER is a communications leader with more than 30 years of experience including 11 years as a journalist and 20 years in agency communications and corporate marketing.  Currently, he is the Senior Communications Manager responsible for directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest, the nation's largest integrated landscape services company.

VICTORIA LELASH, APR, is a senior client service manager at PainePR specializing in social marketing and public health communications for clients such as the California Department of Public Health’s Network for a Health California, a statewide movement to improve the health status of low-income Californians. Victoria also is the co-founder of Quality Time with PR Minds, PRSA-LA’s annual public service event that matches volunteer PR professionals with local nonprofits to provide free strategic counsel.

STEPHEN CHAVEZ is Vice President at Ketchum overseeing its national Latino network. Stephen brings more than 18 years experience spearheading strategic communications specializing in multicultural communities on behalf of major U.S. brands, national non-profits and government agencies. He is a member of Ketchum’s Global Media Network.

HOLLY FERRIS is president of Ferris Communications, a public relations and marketing consulting firm that offers a full range of services including public relations planning and implementation, media relations, crisis communications, brand building, speech writing, project management, community relations, and special event planning and execution. Ferris Communication’s clients include the Lexus Division of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., LINC Housing Corporation, VantageILM Inc., WomenShelter of Long Beach, and the Los Angeles Business Travel Association.

KATHLEEN FLOOD is a vice president with MWW Group / Los Angeles, where she provides strategic counseling in corporate communications to real estate developers, economic development agencies, insurance companies, law firms and non-profits. With 20 years experience in strategic communications, her practice specialties include media relations, crisis communications, reputation management, leadership positioning, marketing communications, and social media marketing.

MICHAEL J. FURTNEY APR, Fellow PRSA, is a partner in the marketing and public relations firm, Killeen Furtney Group, and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

DARYL McCULLOUGH, CEO of PainePR, has nearly 25 years communications experience, and leads PainePR in areas of client strategy and innovation. Over his 15 years at PainePR, his work on major brand-building campaigns for clients like Taco Bell, Sony, P&G, Experian, Hilton Garden Inn and Blockbuster have been widely recognized as industry-leading. He helmed the team that launched XM Satellite Radio, serving as lead strategist for a campaign that was honored with the coveted "Best of Silver Anvil Award" in 2002. 

JOHN MUSELLA is Director of Government & Environmental Affairs for Newhall Land, a premier community planner in north Los Angeles County. It's primary activities are planning communities in Valencia, CA, and on Newhall Ranch, which together form one of the nation's most valuable landholdings.

TIM SCERBA is executive vice president in GolinHarris’ corporate communications practice group and is based in Los Angeles. In this role, he manages GolinHarris’ corporate communications practice in the Western Region of the U.S.

KERRY SLAUGHTER brings to Chandler Chicco Agency’s Los Angeles office nearly six years of combined experience in public relations in the planning and implementation of public education campaigns, community outreach, mainstream media relations and event planning.  Kerry has worked exclusively in the healthcare arena for over three years and has experience in several disease states including eye infections, shingles, renal disease, bacterial infections, hospital acquired infections and other vaccine-preventable diseases.

TOD M. TAMBERG is Director of Media Relations for the five million member Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is principal spokesman for the three-county Archdiocese, and consults widely on news and entertainment projects that feature the Catholic church.

KAREN WHITE, APR is Director, Corporate Communications at Amgen, a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers human therapeutics. Karen leads the global internal communications team, which develops programs to engage, inform and align more than 16,000 staff members worldwide.

DENIS WOLCOTT, APR, is president of The Wolcott Company, a full-service public relations, public affairs and strategic communications firm based in Los Angeles.   The Wolcott Company has provided winning strategies for a range of companies, public agencies and organizations involved in real estate, finance, water and more.  Denis CorporateEco subsidiary provides sustainable-related consulting services.

Bob Wolff is vice president of corporate communications for California-based Bank of the West, where he has served as a senior public relations specialist over the last eight years, supporting the company’s businesses and geographic regions, and planning and executing a wide range of financial, corporate and executive communications programs.  As a corporate communications professional, he has worked in both the public and private sector in the areas of public and media relations for the past 20 years.

GREGORY P. JENKINS, APR, partner and co-founder of the award-winning Bravo Productions, holds an impressive list of credentials and has earned a high reputation in the field of special events. As partner of Bravo Productions, Jenkins is involved in all aspects of the company’s event productions -- from designing the concept and staging the function to overseeing publicity, marketing and the administrative operation. 

SALLIE OLMSTED, APR, Executive Vice President of Rogers & Cowan, has twenty two years of experience with technology, entertainment, digital media, consumer brand marketing and corporate public relations. She currently oversees the Convergence unit of Rogers & Cowan, which manages the intersection of technologies with consumer electronics, entertainment, digital media and health care products and services. 

RON W. ROECKER, is president & Chief Enfluencer of the Enfluence Group. For 17 years, Ron has worked with the biggest brands in the world, including the Grammys, Latin Grammys, Xbox 360, Yahoo!, McDonald's, Nike, Nestle, NBA, GAP, MasterCard, Coca-Cola, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Live Earth, Travelocity, Diageo, just to name a few. He considers himself one of the first hybrids -- the strategic brain of a seasoned brand marketer with the media and industry connections of a Hollywood publicist.

STEFAN I. POLLACK is President & CFO of The Pollack PR Marketing Group. His responsibilities include management of client services, new business development and financial planning for the agency. Stefan also oversees and directs social media and traditional media relations and outreach programs on behalf of several clients in various industries in addition to leading the agency’s professional service firm practice.

PHYLLIS TUCKER is senior vice president in Hill & Knowlton’s corporate services group, Los Angeles office, specializing in social marketing, internal communications, issues management and community relations.

DAWN WILCOX, APR, serves as General Manager of the Los Angeles office for Allison & Partners. In this role she manages a team of 20 professionals across four practice groups – consumer, technology, professional services and social impact representing clients such as Boost Mobile, Hasbro, HomeGoods, HOK Los Angeles and Hyundai’s Hope on Wheels program.