Doug Poretz is co-founder (2000) of Washington, DC-based Qorvis Communications (http://qorvis.com/), among the nation’s largest and fastest growing independently owned communications firms. For half of his forty-year career in communications, he focused on investor relations and corporate communications, in-house as part of senior management for three public companies (two NYSE, one AMEX), and for scores more companies on a retained basis. He has been involved in amicable and hostile acquisitions, initial and follow-on equity and debt offerings, Chapter 11 filings, and virtually all other corporate events. His overall communications experience is very broad, and includes well-known and highly regarded public relations, advertising and interactive/digital campaigns. Ever since his first job in his young twenties to coordinate the public information campaign for the integration of the Alexandria (VA) Public Schools (memorialized in the movie “Remember the Titans”), he has worked with the leadership teams of organizations ranging in size from venture-backed start-ups to multinational conglomerates. He is a frequent speaker to business and academic groups and quoted in the news media often. He received his BA in philosophy from The George Washington University in 1967. He and his wife live in Potomac, MD. See his blog: www.deathoftime.com (http://www.deathoftime.com)