Senior Vice President, Edelman Digital
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Senior Vice President at Edelman
- Past
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- Media Programs Manager at Dryden Marketing Group / G2B Group
- Account Manager at Phase Two Strategies
- AC / AAE / AE / SAE at The Weber Group
- Education
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- St. Mary's College of California
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Phil Gomes’s Summary
I have 12 years of experience in communications, mostly in the B2B and technology sectors, with a smattering of consumer assignments thrown in there for spice and flavor.
My current passion is helping to elevate how account teams at my current employer, Edelman, serve clients by engaging with online communities. In addition to my counseling assignments, I teach week-long "immersions" in social media and hold "open labs" where teams freely explore emerging forms of communications. I'm also supervising the development of a distance learning system.
My proudest achievements are:
- Being among the very first in my profession to see the corporate communications value in social media and emerging forms of communications.
- Helping clients earn Technology Pioneer recognition at the World Economic Forum... Twice.
- Guiding a client to award-winning corporate blogging success.
- Becoming a founding senior fellow for the Society for New Communications Research.
- Developing comprehensive education programs in the intersection between social media, corporate communications, and media relations.
- Avoiding dot-com craziness by focusing my career on innovators like SRI, Matrix Semiconductor, Cornice, CopperEye, etc.
Phil Gomes’s Experience
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Senior Vice President
Edelman
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
August 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)
As a Senior Vice President with Edelman's Digital Integration group, my role includes 1) staff education, 2) client counsel, 3) business development, and 4) agency marketing.
My work in advising the dotMobi corporate blog resulted in an Award Of Merit from the Society for New Communications Research. -
Media Programs Manager
Dryden Marketing Group / G2B Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
November 2002 — July 2005 (2 years 9 months)
While at Dryden Marketing Group (formerly G2B Group), I was instrumental in the planning and execution of communications programs for innovative companies as Matrix Semiconductor, Cornice, and CopperEye. This work culminated in two companies earning the Technology Pioneers recognition at the World Economic Forum.
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Account Manager
Phase Two Strategies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
November 1999 — November 2002 (3 years 1 month)
In my three years at Phase Two Strategies, I was instrumental in the planning and execution of communications programs for SRI International, Matrix Semiconductor, and others.
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AC / AAE / AE / SAE
The Weber Group
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
June 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 6 months)
This was the period of time when I cut my teeth in high-tech PR and developed a passion for the economic miracle that is Silicon Valley. I worked with: SRI, Hitachi Semiconductor, National Semiconductor, J.D. Edwards, Phoenix Technologies, and a series of startups.
