Jill Van Nostran
Role: Handles strategic communications planning and counsel, brand management, corporate positioning and media and analyst relations.
- Nearly 14 years of experience helping technology companies create strategic communications programs that achieve measurable results. Areas of focus include corporate messaging; media and analyst outreach; interactive marketing including social media, email marketing and website
planning; brand development and more. - Approach to PR is comprehensive, incorporating a variety of tactics to achieve strategic objectives, and one in which brands can effectively and directly interact with target audiences. Most importantly, Jill feels strongly that results must be measured against strategic objectives.
- Previously served as account supervisor for PR 21, an Edelman agency and account director for Ackermann PR, a full-service, integrated marketing communications firm, ranked by PR Week and the Council of PR Firms as one of the top 100 firms in the United States.
- Clients have included Motorola (developer of iDEN® integrated digital push-to-talk technology), Openwave (innovator of software applications and infrastructure for mobile and broadband operators), Metrico Wireless (leader in measuring mobile device performance), LSN Mobile
(pioneer in mobile marketing through delivery of local mobile media) and SignalSoft (creator of mobile location-based services). - Skilled at directing major press announcements, media tours, national publicity campaigns, product trials, spokesperson media training and message development sessions.
- Have secured coverage in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time, Business Week and on Extra! Entertainment Magazine, Today show and CNN as well as numerous trade outlets including Wireless Week, RCR Wireless News, Connected Planet, Light Reading, Mobile Marketer, FierceWireless, Mobile Dev and Design and much more.
- Received media relations awards including Publicity Club of Chicago Silver Trumpet Award, Public Relations Society of America Skyline Award, PR Week Hi-Tech Campaign of the Year, PR News Platinum Award, International Association of Business Communicators Spectra Award and Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation Award Certificate of Excellence.
- Long-standing Member, Public Relations Society of America.


