About Us
About Us
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| Agency Leadership Henry Eason (Managing Partner) Henry Eason is founder and managing partner of the San Francisco-based marketing and public relations agency Eason Communications LLC, organized in 1989. The agency has developed and implemented numerous marketing, public relations and advertising programs for financial services, technology, logistics, hospitality, media, real estate, health care, web, professional services and manufacturing companies, nonprofit associations and government agencies. Eason Communications has branded and launched many products, as well as providing marketing communications start-up services for entire companies, subsidiaries and divisions. The agency has also created and administered public affairs campaigns for companies and organizations. 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. This included extensive dealings with not only with the national and international press corps, but also representatives of many of the nation’s largest trade and professional associations and corporations as well as foreign governments and global firms. Prior to that, Eason was senor editor of Nation’s Business (circulation 1.2 million) and Washington correspondent for The Atlanta Constitution, the other 30 dailies in the Cox Newspapers chain and the more than 400 news organizations around the world that subscribed to Cox News Service. He covered Congress, the White House and other executive agencies, as well as the federal judiciary and national interest groups. He was given many awards for meritorious reporting, including the National Press Club Award for reporting on international issues and one of the very few journalists to provide expert testimony on defense and intelligence issues before a congressional committee. Before his Washington career, Eason was a political reporter and editor who covered the state governments of Georgia and South Carolina for major Southeastern daily newspapers and was founder and publisher of American Chronicle. 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. He enjoys hiking, jazz, reading widely, fine food and wine, conversation with interesting people and weekending in Northern California’s vast array of wonderful locales, from Mendocino to Big Sur. He is married to his partner of 18 years, Ellen Bullington Eason. Ellen Eason (Partner and Art Director) Ellen Eason, agency partner, was a legislative and press aide in the U.S. Senate and a communications manager at Robert Half International Inc., the world's largest specialized staffing firm. She joined Eason Communications in 1990, where she is the principal creative director. She has worked in numerous industry areas, including technology, logistics and health care, but has distinguished herself particularly in the hospitality field, where she has designed and managed the agency’s marketing and public relations campaigns for more than 50 hotels and resorts. Her design projects have won awards from Westin Hotels and the Hilton Hotels Corporation. She currently serves as president of the Northern California Chapter of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International. Ellen has also been on the boards of the International Association of Business Communi- cators, 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. 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. She is the leader of the Carolina Club alumni association for UNC in the Bay Area. In her leisure time she enjoys hiking, dining out, wine tasting, bookbinding, reading Southern fiction and playing the flute. 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 quality alternative to large bureaucratic agencies. We only use resources 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 American Marketing Association, Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Legal Marketing Association, the Public Relations Society of America and the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club. 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 | |
| Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International | |
| Business Marketing Association | |
| Legal Marketing Association | |
| San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club | |
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