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Walek
& Associates Supports Better Chinatown Society NY in Dragon Lunar
New
Year Festivities
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Release
Walek
& Associates 2012 Client Letter
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Letter
Walek
& Associates Hong Kong Expands With New Office, New Clients.
Sophaon
Promoted to Vice President
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Release
Mary
Beth Kissane Moderates the Investor Relations Road Map Panel at The
Bond
Buyer's
2nd Annual 501(c)3 Super Conference in New York
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Agenda
Thomas
Walek Discusses Social Media on a Special Panel at the AIMSE Fall
Conference
in New York October 6th, 2011
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Agenda
Thomas
Walek Speaks About Social Media at the Institutional Investor's Alpha
Hedge
Conference in San Francisco September 27th, 2011
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Conference Overview
Financial
PR Veteran Morrison Shafroth Joins Walek & Associates
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Release
NIRI-NY's
Logler 9/11 Internship Program, Established In Part by Mary Beth Kissane,
Still
Going Strong After 9 years
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About it in IR Magazine
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About it on Business Insider
Mary
Beth Kissane Moderates NIRI Seminar: Regulations 101
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Article
Insurance
Asset Manager on Walek & Associates Best PR Firm Award
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Article
HedgeWeek
Names Walek & Associates Best Public Relations Firm
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Release
Award-Winning
Financial Public Relations Firm Launches Book Division
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Release
Walek
& Associates Named "Best Public Relations
Firm" By Hedgeweek
Readers
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Release
CFO
Quotes Mary Beth Kissane on Changing InvestorRelations Practices at
Google
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Article
Walek &
Associates Adds Account Executive in New York
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Release
Mary Beth Kissane
Elected to NIRI's Board of Directors
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Release
Mary
Beth Kissane Moderates NIRI Webinar
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Article
Walek
& Associates Names Howard Tang of Counsel in Hong Kong Office
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Release
Walek
& Associates Names John Ford as Counsel
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Release
Walek
& Associates to Moderate Panel on Crisis Communications
at
Hedge Fund Institutional Forum Roundtable
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Release
Stefan
Prelog Joins Walek & Associates as Senior Account Executive
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Release
Hong
Kong Office Opening
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Release
Mary
Beth Kissane discusses SEC Regulations and Proposals
Press Release PowerPoint
Mary
Beth Kissane Joins Firm to Head Investor Relations and
Corporate Transactions Group
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Release
Walek
& Associates Named Fastest-Growing Independent Financial PR Firm
for
Second
Consecutive Year
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Release
Events
Walek
& Associates is honored to be selected as a finalist
for the PRWeek Awards' 2012
Boutique Agency
of the Year.
Walek
on Broadway
Continuing a decades-long tradition, in 2011 Walek & Associates
executives and guests joined
hundreds of
journalists, PR pros and corporate executives on Broadway for the
annual Financial
Follies, an
evening of entertainment hosted by the New York Financial Writers'
Association. The
Follies benefit
the NYFWA Scholarship Fund, supporting students pursuing careers in
business
and financial
journalism.
Vice
President Sophie Sophaon is joined by Nick Johnston of LGT Capital
Partners, Alexis
Fosler and Jeb Altonaga of of Northern Trust at the 10th annual AsiaHedge
Awards dinner in
Hong Kong, October 20, 2011.
Walek
& Associates hosted "Sources Believed to be Reliable"
reception and dinner in
conjunction
with AIMA in London, September 20, 2011.
Account
Executive Nelli Chowdhury with Vikas Bajaj at the SAJA Convention
& Awards Gala
in New York
City held in Columbia University on June 17, 2011. Vikas Bajaj
is a correspondent
for The New
York Times in Mumbai, India, where he writes primarily about economic
and
business issues.
He was previously based in New York and covered housing and financial
markets.
Publishers,
authors, financial executives, media joined the Walek agency at the
Landmarc
in the Time
Warner Center for Walek's first "Bulls, bears, books...
and cocktails" reception.
More than 50
people attended the event, which was held in conjunction with the
Book Expo
of America
and the Ira Sohn Conference on May 23, 2011. The event featured
four authors
with recent
and upcoming books: Maneet Ahuja ("Alpha
Masters"), Padma Desai ("From
Financial
Crisis to Global Recovery"), Suzanne McGee ("Chasing
Goldman Sachs") and
Edgar Peres
("Speed
Traders").
A poster from
Walek & Associates' first annual "Bulls,
bears, books...and cocktails"
event, held
May 2011 at The Landmarc.
Walek
& Associates Vice President Stefan Prelog participated
in the Children's Tumor
Foundation
at the Koreatown Radisson Hotel in May 2011. An avid poker player,
Stefan
was sponsored
by the firm as they raised money to encourage and support research
and the development
of treatments and cures for neurofibromatosis. He also finished
sixth at the
annual Greenlight Poker Tournament in May 2011.
Clifford
J. Levy and Ellen Barry from The New York Times were recognized
as the recipients
of the 2010
Bob Considine Award at the Overseas Press Club's annual awards dinner
for best
newspaper or
news service interpretation of international affairs. Their
work examined corruption
and abuse of
power in Russia two decades after the end of Communism. The
award is sponsored
by Walek &
Associates. Joe Kahn, deputy foreign editor of The New York
Times accepted the
award on behalf
of Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry, who were unable to come from
Russia to
accept their
awards.
As
appeared in AIMA Journal May 2011
Walek
& Associates Principal Mary Beth Kissane, along with Account Executive
Nelli Chowdhury,
attended the
Institutional Investor 2011 All-American Executive Team-Leadership
and Investor
Relations Awards
in March 2011. Speakers at this event, along with Mary Beth
Kissane, were
Chris Eades,
Clearbrige Advisors, Christian Garcia, Halliburton, Jennifer Failla,
Highbridge Capital
Management
LLC, Mark Urness, CLSA and Mark Aaron, Tiffany & Co.
Assistant
Account Executive Michelle Lam marched in New York's 12th
Annual Chinatown
Lunar New Year
Parade & Festival in February 2011 to mark the arrival of the
Year of the Rabbit.
As
appeared in AIMA Journal 2010.
Parishioners,
community members and press representatives gathered at
Pleasantville’s Emanuel Lutheran Church on
Sunday, October 24, 2010 to
dedicate
new rooftop, power-generating solar panels. This largest church-based
electricity generating solar panel array in Westchester County was
built thanks to
the support of New York State and Emanuel Lutheran Church. Walek &
Associates
works with Emanuel’s public relations committee to increase
awareness of the
church’s activities. More information is available at Emanuel
Lutheran Church.
More
than 30 reporters and public relations professionals gathered for
Flacks and Hacks,
an evening
of drinks and discussion sponsored by Walek & Associates. Attendees
included
Walek employees
Chris Gillick, Michelle Lam, Stefan Prelog and Jon Schubin (all pictured
above).
The event was
organized by Mr. Prelog, along with AR magazine editor Josh Friedlander.
Photos
courtesy Jay Irani.
Account
Executive Jon Schubin (pictured on left) appeared on the
Discovery game
show Cash
Cab. Along with a friend, Jon won $2,700 by answering every
question
correct except
one.
Karen
DeYoung and Rajiv Chandrasekaran from the Washington Post accepted
the 2009
Bob Considine
Award at the Overseas Press Club's annual awards dinner for best newspaper
or news service
interpretation of international affairs. The award is sponsored by
Walek & Associates.
Post editor
Bob Woodward, who was unable to attend the ceremony, was also recognized.
Walek
& Associates Principal Mary Beth Kissane, along with account executive
Nelli Chowdhury
and
assistant account executive Michelle Lam, pose with former
CBS anchor Dan Rather at the
Overseas Press
Club Luncheon on February 19, 2010.
Cocktail
reception with Sophie Sophaon, head of Walek's Hong Kong office.
Sophie was in New York to discuss
current activity in Asia.The reception was held at
The Campbell
Apartment in Grand Central Terminal on November 19, 2009.
The
Man Booker International Prize 2009
Lamma
Island Dragonboat Race 2009, Hong Kong
Opening
of Hong Kong Office
Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program
