About Us
About Us
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| Agency Leadership Henry Eason With three decades of communications experience serving global and start-up firms across many industries, Henry brings breadth and depth to marketing and PR assignments. Adjectives that best describe him are: experienced, knowledgeable and curious. As a former business editor and reporter on many beats and a marketing strategist for more than 100 firms, he enjoys new assignments. Beyond this, how can he benefit your organization? He is very determined to succeed for his clients. He founded the San Francisco-based marketing and public relations agency Eason Communications LLC in 1989 to help innovative companies and organizations communicate better. Since then, the agency has developed and implemented numerous marketing, public relations and advertising programs for technology, web, healthcare, financial services, logistics, manufacturers, hospitality, media, real estate, professional services and nonprofit clients. Before founding his agency, Eason was director of media relations of the world’s largest business federation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. He and his department were responsible for formulating and implementing the Chamber’s communications strategy to the American business community’s national and global audiences as well as furthering free enterprise here and abroad. Prior to that, Eason was a senior editor of the million-plus circulation Nation’s Business magazine, Washington correspondent for The Atlanta Constitution, the other 30 dailies in the Cox Newspapers chain and more than 400 news organizations around the world that subscribed to Cox News Service. He covered business and technology issues before Congress, the White House and other executive agencies, as well as the federal judiciary and national interest groups. He earned an M.A. in mass communications from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Armstrong Atlantic State University. He has been a member of the White House Correspondents Association, the Congressional Correspondents Association, the National Press Club, American Marketing Association, the Public Relations Society of America, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Society for Marketing Professional Services, the Business Marketing Association, the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club, the Commonwealth Club and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. He taught public relations and reporting in the communications graduate school of George Washington University and in the University of South Carolina extension program. Ellen Eason A unique contradiction to the perception that you can’t be both an accomplished PR counselor and an art director, Ellen augmented her marketing career by studying graphic design at UC Berkeley. She has handled press in the U.S. Senate and for Fortune 500-level firms and created iconic brands for international companies: a right-brain and left-brain gal who can help your company develop a powerful and integrated brand presence in the marketplace. Ellen is a partner and art director of Eason Communications LLC. She has created and implemented branding campaigns for companies in many economic sectors, including technology, telecommunications, logistics, healthcare, hospitality and professional services. She began her career as a public relations counselor, then grew to assume fuller responsibilities for overall marketing communications campaigns. To better manage graphic aspects of marketing programs, she earned a certificate in graphic arts. Before joining the firm, she was a communications manager at Robert Half International Inc.in Menlo Park, CA, the world’s largest specialized staffing firm, serving the technology and financial community. She had been a legislative and press aide in the U.S. Senate. Ellen has also been on the boards of the International Association of Business Communicators, Association of Women in Communications and Junior Achievement. She served as a co-chair of the legislative committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. For two years, she was president of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association’s Northern California chapter. She has a certificate in graphic design from the University of California Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen has been a graduate student advisor on branding for the Academy of Art University and has conducted public relations training at the American Institute of Architects-San Francisco. She is the leader of the Carolina Club for UNC alumni in the Bay Area. In her leisure time she enjoys hiking, dining out, wine tasting, bookbinding, reading Southern fiction, playing the flute, gardening and volunteering at her neighborhood farmers’ market. Our Marketing Team We work with a team of highly talented and experienced independent contractors and allied marketing firms whose skills include branding consultation, direct-mail consulting and fulfillment, print and online graphic design, marketing research, events planning, public relations, writing and events planning. We involve these professionals on an as-needed basis. Our business model gives our clients both a cost and a quality alternative to large bureaucratic agencies. We use resources only when you need them. And we don’t pass off your work to junior people. Many of our talented associates are drawn from organizations in which we are involved as active members or regular attendees, such as the Business Marketing Association, American Marketing Association, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Legal Marketing Association, the Public Relations Society of America, the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club and Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International. These groups give us a vast regional, national and even international pool of professionals from which to draw. We carefully screen team members and choose only those with the most appropriate experience and adherence to quality standards. We manage and take responsibility for all work commissioned to Eason Communications LLC. |
 | International Association of Business Communicators | |
| Society for Marketing Professional Services | |
| Healthcare Businesswomen's Association | |
| Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International | |
| Business Marketing Association | |
| Legal Marketing Association | |
| American Institute of Architects | |
| Building Owners and Managers Association | |
| British American Business Council | |
| The City Club of San Francisco | |
| San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club | |
Principals of our agency are proud members of: