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Bob Feldman
Bob Feldman founded Feldman & Partners, a communications management consulting firm, to help chief communications officers maximize the impact and productivity of their organizations. The firm’s unique niche is to provide the expertise of a traditional management consulting firm with the deep understanding of the corporate communications function.
Feldman & Partners pays particular attention to two areas: strategy and organizational structure. To help clients with communications strategy, the firm’s offering is driven by a senior counselor group that includes some of the most respected names in the corporate communications field, including Don Cogman, Tom Martin and Greg Spector. For organizational structure, the firm offers expertise in organizational design, as well as the use of new technologies to enhance productivity. For example, the firm is investing heavily in the application of corporate social networking tools to boost organizational collaboration and productivity on a global basis.
At Feldman & Partners, Bob and his team of senior counselors have worked with clients in a number of industries, including Home Depot, Moody’s, Chevron, Amgen, Hill & Knowlton, CA (formerly Computer Associates), DreamWorks Animation and the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association.
Before starting Feldman & Partners, Bob was with DreamWorks Animation as the company’s first head of corporate communications. The position was created as a result of the animation unit’s spin off and IPO in October 2004 from DreamWorks SKG. In this post, Bob was responsible for the development and implementation of all DreamWorks Animation communications programs and was a member of the company’s senior management team.
Prior to DreamWorks, Bob lived in New York and was for eight years president and chief executive officer of GCI Group, one of the world's largest public relations firms. Bob’s time with GCI, a unit of WPP’s Grey Global Group, was marked by substantial agency growth and broad industry recognition for the firm including being named Agency of the Year. Bob was previously with Ketchum and Burson-Marsteller, two other large, well respected public relations firms.
Bob has counseled a diverse mix of high profile clients on brand marketing and corporate positioning strategies, including Intel, Sony Ericsson, Visa, Lowe’s, Dell, Genentech, Universal Studios Florida and FedEx.
Bob is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California teaching a graduate-level course in corporate reputation. He is a member of the Arthur Page Society and The Public Relations Seminar and serves on the Board of Directors of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
bob@feldmanandpartners.com
310-360-0211
Grant M. Toups
Grant is an associate at Feldman & Partners where he is involved with market research, media analysis and client support.
Grant holds a Master of Arts degree in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications where he was a Dean’s Scholar, the Outstanding Graduate PR Student and a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
He is also a graduate of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University holding a Bachelors of Science in Management in Finance and Business Law where he was named a Henry Haller Memorial Scholar and a Tulane Distinguished Scholar and served as the Undergraduate Student Government Executive VP and Managing Editor of the campus newspaper.
Grant has worked as a Strategy & Planning Intern at Marcus Brewster Publicity in Cape Town, South Africa, an Account Manager at The Busby Group in Los Angeles, a Consultant to Blue Peter Productions LLC, a Boston start-up, a Marketing & Sales Intern at CNBC in New York and an Accountant & Special Projects Coordinator for the Lafourche Parish Government in Thibodaux, LA where he received certification by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Management Institute.
He is a native of Thibodaux, LA and resides in Los Angeles, CA.
grant@feldmanandpartners.com
310-360-0229
Senior Counselors
Don V. Cogman
 Don Cogman, a senior counselor with Feldman & Partners, is one of the true leaders in the communications industry, with nearly thirty years of public relations, public affairs and advertising experience in New York and Washington, D.C. He is a former president and chief operating officer of Burson-Marsteller and an executive vice president of Young & Rubicam. Don has particularly deep experience working with companies in energy-related industries.
Currently, Don is chairman of CC Investments LLC, a private investment firm in Scottsdale, Arizona; chairman of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Young Entrepreneur Foundation, NFIB’s education arm; a member of the NFIB Board of Directors; and a Presidential Appointee to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Arts.
He is a Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Washington D.C. and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma and serves on their Governance Committee.
Don has also served on the Executive Committee and chairman of the Governance Committee of The Acting Company, a national traveling repertory theatre company founded at the Juilliard School in New York and was a recent appointee to the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service.
He is a native of Oklahoma, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and is married with four children.
don@feldmanandpartners.com
480-473-1442
Debjani Deb
 Debjani Deb, a senior counselor with Feldman & Partners, is a co-founder and managing partner of EmPower Research, LLC, a Business Research and Information Consulting (BRIC) firm headquartered in New York City. Its value proposition is “highly customized time critical, cost effective and consulting firm quality research that focuses on providing insights rather than just data.” Its offshore business model has attracted the interest of dozens of senior corporate communications executives.
Prior to its inception, Debjani spent three years with WPP’s GCI Group as Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, she was advising the CEO and management team of the company. She was also partnering with GCI General Managers across the country and Europe to drive best practices while driving nationwide organizational realignment to implement sector focus and draw on scale efficiencies.
Debjani also worked at ONI Systems as Director of Strategic Marketing where she worked with the executive team to define next generation product strategy and develop a 3 year business plan for the company. One of her key assignments in this position was to lead a cross functional Sales, Product Management, and Business Development team to design partnership strategy for low speed access to ONI DWDM equipment in Europe and Asia. Before moving to ONI, Debjani spent a year as Director of Product Strategy & Business Development at Mayan Networks. At Mayan she led many key initiatives, one of which was to assist the executive team with overall company direction, 2-5 year business planning, which included M&A strategy and identifying and doing due diligence on prospective acquisitions/acquirers.
Debjani has also spent several years at Booz-Allen and Hamilton as a Senior Associate. Here she led key strategy initiatives for multiple clients. Debjani began her career as a project manager at AT&T Communications Services where her stellar work won her the AT&T Merit Award.
Debjani holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
debjani@feldmanandpartners.com
650-559-5942
Bill Feldman
Bill Feldman, a senior counselor with Feldman & Partners, has nearly 30 years experience at the intersection of law, journalism, politics and public policy in Washington, D.C.
As President of Agra Informa, Inc., a unit of Informa plc, he ran the leading information company in the U.S. covering food and nutrition regulation and policy. He has written and spoken – and created new print and online information services – in the areas of obesity policy, food traceability and genetically modified foods, and chaired a major Washington conference on obesity policy. He has held several other senior positions in journalism and communications, including Assistant Publisher of the newsletter division of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., one of the largest publishers of legal and regulatory news and information in the world. His experience in communicating sensitive legal, public policy, and regulatory issues extends from mergers and acquisitions, to AIDS policy, education policy, and the funeral industry.
Bill has also worked in political communications, recently with the major Washington, D.C. firm Kennedy Communications, developing successful campaign material for such candidates as U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D. Del.), U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D. Penn.), U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D. Calif.), and other federal, state, and local candidates.
Bill holds a B.S. in Journalism, magna cum laude, from Boston University, and a Juris Doctor from George Washington University. He is a lawyer, admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. He has been a guest lecturer in the graduate program in business and economics journalism at Boston University, and at the University of Maryland.
bill@feldmanandpartners.com
202-329-7263
Thomas R. Martin
Tom is one of the public relations industry’s most widely respected communications strategists. As a former chief communications officer of both ITT and FedEx, Tom has been engaged in a broad range of challenging business issues including building global brand equity, managing crises, and enhancing corporate social responsibility. His experience has included developing strategy to communicate Justice Department settlements, plant closures, labor issues, an attempted aircraft hijacking and numerous bi-lateral trade disputes.
Today, in addition to being a senior counselor with Feldman & Partners, Tom is Executive in Residence in the Department of Communication at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
At ITT Corporation, Tom was Senior Vice President and Director of Corporate Relations for the $8 billion diversified global engineering and manufacturing company. In that role, Tom was a member of the Executive Council and served as a management liaison to the Board of Directors. He was responsible for global branding, corporate advertising, government relations, public relations, employee communications and corporate philanthropy.
At FedEx, Tom was Vice President, Corporate Communications where he was responsible for worldwide public relations, investor relations and employee communications for the Fortune 150 Company. He joined Federal Express in 1978 and assumed posts of increasing responsibility in the communication field prior to becoming the chief communications officer in July 1995. In 1988, his department launched FXTV, one of the largest and most successful internal satellite television networks. He was also responsible for the public relations and internal communications efforts for the launch of the FedEx brand in 1994.
Tom earned his BA at Vanderbilt University. He writes a regular column on communication issues for PR Week magazine. He has served as a trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society, a membership organization for senior corporate communication executives, since 2002, and was President of the Society in
2004-2005. In 2005, he was elected to the Board of Governors of the Josephson Institute of Ethics. In November of 2006 he was inducted into the PR News Hall of Fame.
tom@feldmanandpartners.com
203-615-2477
Greg Spector
 Greg, a senior counselor with Feldman & Partners, is a widely respected senior communications counselor based in the Bay Area with deep experience in the technology sector.
Most recently, Greg was chief marketing officer for Rebtel Mobile, a Stockholm-based mobile voice service company he helped co-found in January 2006.
In this role Greg created and led execution of Rebtel’s positioning, marketing and communications strategy for launch in May, service activation introduction in June, and successfully securing $20 million in Series A financing from Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital in September. As a member of the company’s management team, Greg set up and directed Rebtel’s media and analyst relations, online communications, executive presentations and speeches, Website content, affiliate marketing, advertising and paid search programs.
Before joining Rebtel, Greg was the president and chief executive officer of Blanc & Otus (B&O), a WPP international technology public relations firm. In that role, Greg was responsible for client services, operations, human resources, and financial performance for the agencies offices in San Francisco, Austin, Boston and London. He also served as the general manager of the company's flagship office in San Francisco, where he led teams serving Hitachi Data Systems, Blu-ray Disc Association, and Facebook. Greg's client work at B&O spanned from global leaders Sony Playstation and HP, to high growth phenomena E.piphany, Ariba and Openwave, as well as burgeoning start-ups TiVo and Hotwire.
Prior to joining B&O in May 2000, Greg was president of GCI Group's San Francisco office, originally Jennings & Company, which he co-founded in 1990. Under his direction, the office enjoyed steady staff and revenue growth with clients such as Sun Microsystems, MP3.com, Adobe, Red Brick, Seagate, and Visa International.
Before Jennings & Company, Greg was West Coast bureau chief for PC Week. He began his career in 1980 as a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner where he covered technology, airlines and aerospace, labor, telecommunications, and the California wine industry.
greg@feldmanandpartners.com
415-717-4666
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