Penelope Alexander

Current

• Public Relations/Marketing Recruiting Consultant at Alexander & Company, Inc.

Past

• Recruitment Manager at Peppercom Strategic Communications, New York, San Francisco and London
• Marketing/Public Relations Recruiter at Management Associates - Silicon Valley

Education

• Pennsylvania State University

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Connections

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Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Penelope Alexander’s Summary

Seasoned, proven recruiting professional with extensive experience in all segments of marketing, public relations, corporate communications, and public affairs recruiting for both agencies and corporations. Solid, well-developed skills in all phases of executive search from initial research to close. Nationwide capability, talent database of over 10,000 candidates.

Penelope Alexander’s Specialties:

Extensive PR recruiting for consumer, technology, B2B, B2C, RE, law, healthcare, public affairs, non-profit, mission/cause focused companies, organizations and PR agencies. Passive candidate sourcing/recruiting nationwide, full-cycle in-house recruiting, strategic retained search, contingency search for established clients, multiple office recruiting for PR agencies.

Penelope Alexander’s Experience

• Public Relations/Marketing Recruiting Consultant

  Alexander & Company, Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 1990 — Present (19 years 7 months)

  Recruitment of public relations, corporate communications, investor relations, public affairs, marketing and advertising professionals for corporations and agencies.
  
  Representative client list:
  
  AGENCIES - Waggener Edstrom, The Weber Group, A&R Partners, The Horn Group, Springbok, Ketchum, Graham & Assoc, McClenahan Bruer, White & Co., 5W PR, Smith PR, Peppercom, Text 100, Davies Communications, Morgen Walke, Linden, Alschuler & Kaplan, Solomon McCown, Upstart Communications, KVO, The MWW Group, Wilson McHenry
  
  CORPORATIONS - Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Sybase, Borland, Aspect, Western Digital, Adaptec, Siemens, Acer, Creative Sources, Artisoft, Novell, Pacific Bell, Thales Navigation, Hyperion Solutions, Blockbuster, Wind River Systems, Cognitos, Vocus, Larscom, Cylink, Global Center, Critical Path, Trimble, Madge Networks, Lowe's, Vertical Net, Insync, RSA Data Security, Infoseek, Intira, MatraNet, Intel

• Recruitment Manager

  Peppercom Strategic Communications, New York, San Francisco and London

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  February 2003 — January 2007 (4 years)

  Managed the recruiting process for mid-size public relations agency with offices in New York, San Francisco and London.

• Marketing/Public Relations Recruiter

  Management Associates - Silicon Valley

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 1988 — December 1990 (3 years)

  Developed a marketing and public relations search practice within a Silicon Valley technical recruiting firm. Worked with high tech companies and PR agencies focused on technology.
  
  Clients: Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Borland, High Tech Public Relations

Penelope Alexander’s Education

• Pennsylvania State University

Additional Information

Penelope Alexander’s Groups:

•    Sourcers Guild
•    Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting

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