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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)

Doug Poretz's Company

Qorvis Communications Our model is anchored in two major differentiators: 1) clients do not care about how busy we are; they only are concerned with the value we provide; so why bill them on the basis of time? We have no time sheets at all; 2) the technology revolution of the past decade or so has been manifested most dramatically in the way people and organizations communicate but the communications industry has failed to change its model -- it is structured on the basis of distribution channel (advertising or PR or events or digital, etc.), each of which become separate silos, when the focus should be on: what is the goal and what distribution channels bring the right message to the right audiences.

This has allowed us to assemble a group (about 100, based in Washington DC) of very experienced professionals who work together extremely collegially, driven by the desire to hit a homerun for the client rather than the pressure to fill-in a time sheet. These people now represent virtually every area of expertise in the wide scope of communications, starting with research, media training, message development, public affairs, investor relations, crisis communications, advertising, web, social media, etc. We work with some of the most recognizeable corporations and institutions in the world, as well as lesser and (as yet) unknow organizations that have prospects for leadership positions in their space.
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Company Contact Details
Phone Number:
703 408 1880
Email Address:
dporetz@qorvis.com
Location:
DC; US
Web URL:
http://www.deathoftime.com

Doug Poretz's Blog

www.deathoftime.com A wide range of thoughts with the primary theme that the world is in transition from a manufacturing to a knowledge economy. Topics generally relate to issues about communications including so-called "new media," social media, etc.; business models; political and cultural issues.
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