CHATERINE BROOKS

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Port Washington, NY 11050

(516) 384-9227

SUMMARY:                             Seventeen years’ public relations and advertising experience in multidivisional corporation and public relations firms. Direct experience included financial and product public relations and advertising; shareholder and employee relations. Supervised department and directed successful efforts of public relations and advertising agencies.

EXPERIENCE:

Nov. 1993                               Director of Communications

to present                               GAF, Inc., Woodside, NY

Advertising, public relations, shareholder relations for this American Stock Exchange Company.     

March 1992                             Account Executive

to Sept. 1993                          Howard P, Schmidt Associates, New York, NY

Corporate, financial, and product public relations for industrial, consumer, and financial service companies. Corporate planning, executive speeches, annual reports, brochures, feature articles, news releases, and scripts. Also analyst meetings, press conferences, marketing seminars, broadcast interviews, corporate advertising. Good relations with all segments of financial community, and trade, general, and business media.

April 1989                               Account Executive

to Feb. 1992                           Spahr, Smith and Associates, New York, NY

Supervised corporate and financial public relations activities for client firms (construction, medical products, leisure time, electronics). Wrote and placed news releases, speeches, feature articles, annual reports, brochures, and leaflets. Arranged for press conferences, analyst meetings, and personal interviews.

                                                                                                                        (Continued)

May 1980                               Advertising and Public Relation Manager

to March 1989                        Page Co., Inc., New York, NY

Coordinated all internal and external (agency) advertising and public relations activities, scheduled space advertising and product publicity, prepared advertising budgets and analyses. Also originated sales letter and house organ, prepared annual reports, and supervise staff of four.

EDUCATION:                          B.S., New York University (1979)

                                               Undergraduate, University of Chicago

MEMBERSHIP:                       American Public Relations Society

                                               New York Public Relations Association

REFERENCES:                        Available upon request.