LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sitrick And
Company, internationally recognized as one of the top strategic and
crisis communications firms in the nation, today announced that it
has opened a Boston office.
The firm now has offices in Los
Angeles, New York,
San Francisco, Denver and Washington, DC.
Simultaneously, the firm announced it has named David Churbuck, founder and former Editor of
Forbes.com and former Chief Content Officer of McKinsey &
Company's TomorrowLab, as Head of the Boston Office and a Member of
the Firm.
Mr. Churbuck, an award-winning tech journalist and digital
marketing communications executive, brings 20 years of journalism
experience and 10 years of corporate experience to the
position.
In addition to founding and serving as Editor in Chief of
Forbes.com, Mr. Churbuck served as Senior Technology Editor and New
England Bureau Chief at Forbes. While he led Forbes.com, the
site exposed the New Republic scandal chronicled in the 2003 film
Shattered Glass. While Senior Technology Editor at
Forbes, the magazine won awards for his cover story about digital
forgery, and his early coverage of the Internet.
Mr. Churbuck served as Vice-President of Global Digital
Marketing at Lenovo from 2005 through 2010, where he won awards for
Lenovo's pioneering athlete blogging campaign – Voice of the
Summer Games -- during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
He also served as a founding partner of Eastman Advisors, a digital
strategy firm in New York City,
advising clients in the entertainment, art and luxury goods sectors
on their ecommerce, social media and digital marketing
strategies.
Prior to joining Sitrick and Company, Mr. Churbuck was VP of
Corporate Marketing at Acquia, a Boston-based SaaS provider of open source
content management solutions to Global 2000 clients.
A native Cape Codder, Mr. Churbuck holds a bachelor's degree in
American History from Yale
University.
Mr. Churbuck joins a roster of reporters and editors from such
publications as The Los Angeles Times,
The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg News, NBC and CBS Television.
Michael Sitrick, the firm's
founder, Chairman and CEO said that he has long eyed Boston as a market that could benefit from the
firm's unique set of skills, but had not found the right person to
run that office.
"David fills that need," he said.
"I speak for everyone at the firm when I say we are very
thrilled to have David join our team," Mr. Sitrick said. "His
knowledge and expertise in the media, financial, and technology
sectors, as well as in digital and social media will further
enhance our ability to serve our clients. It takes a certain
combination of judgment and skill to succeed in this business and I
am confident David has both."
Mr. Churbuck added, "It's an honor to join a firm with a
reputation as outstanding as Sitrick And Company's. The opportunity
to work with Mike Sitrick and his
team is compelling. Their reputation for achieving results
for clients is well known. Mike and I share the opinion that
there is significant opportunity to bring a new level of value to
clients in the technology sector, not only in Boston but worldwide. I am very excited
to join the firm and look forward to helping our clients achieve
their goals."
Sitrick And Company is internationally recognized as one of the
top strategic communications firms in the country. Based in
Los Angeles with offices in
New York, San Francisco, Denver and Washington, D.C., Sitrick And Company was
founded nearly 30 years ago and is recognized as one of the
nation's top strategic public relations firms. Best known for its
work advising clients during crises and other sensitive matters,
the firm has a successful business in corporate, financial and
transactional communications, as well. It has advised well
over 1,000 public and private companies, organizations and
individuals on myriad issues. It was acquired as a
wholly-owned subsidiary by Resources Connection, Inc. (NASDAQ:
RECN) in November 2009.
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