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Donna Candelori
Donna Candelori, CEO, founded Candelori Communications in 1997
on the principle that PR professionals must appreciate each of their
clients' diversity, creativity, and independence before they can
devise effective and strategic programs for them. A recognized leader
in the public relations field, Donna's career features a compelling
blend of consumer and high-technology communications experience
with both start-up and Fortune 1000 companies.
Prior to founding Candelori Communications, Donna was Director
at A&R Partners, a Silicon Valley public relations firm. There,
she managed the PR activities of both start-ups and Fortune 500
companies, including Fujitsu PC Corporation, Fujitsu Microelectronics
PC Card Division, Fujitsu Microelectronics Graphics Products Division,
Network General, and Socket Communications.
Donna was Vice President of Franson, Hagerty, and Associates, one
of Silicon Valley's a leading public relations firms in the late
1980s. There, she orchestrated a wide range of marketing and communications
programs for such market leaders as Allied Telesyn International,
Alps America, Centigram Communications, Iomega Corporation, and
New Enterprise Associates.
At Silicon Graphics and Mountain Network Solutions, Donna managed
channel marketing activities, corporate communications, advertising,
and market development. Her initial experience in the high-tech
industry stems from marketing management roles at Sega of America
and at Ziff-Davis' PC Computing and MacUser magazines.
Donna began her professional career at legendary world-wide advertising
agencies where she managed such accounts as Lancome, Chanel, and
Hyatt Hotel in the U.S. and abroad.


Pam Ferguson
Pam Ferguson, who founded Marketing Minds, and has integrated that
into Candelori Communications, is an industry strategist who has
designed and managed corporate campaigns and strategic outreach
programs on a global level. With more than 25 years of advanced
technology and lifestyle marketing and communications experience,
Pam is exceptionally skilled at designing and managing targeted
marketing programs that range in spectrum, and are collaboratively
linked with advertising, branding, events, lead generation, and
public relations.
Throughout her career, Pam has worked on both the client and the
agency side; with industry leaders such as Adobe, Apple, Centigram,
Cisco, HP, IBM, and ROLM, to emerging growth companies who are preparing
for funding, an IPO or simply growing market share. While working
with agencies, such as Eastwick Communications, Porter Novelli,
PredoMedia Group, The Meyer Group, and Transcend Advertising, Pam
drove strategic development and planning, corporate identity and
branding campaigns, collateral creation, website formation and refresh,
advertising, trade shows, executive coaching, and special events.
At Candelori Communications, Pam drives the strategic direction
for a client, nurturing press and analyst relations with her broad
industry contacts, creating a corporate image as well as product
and sales material, setting the stage for events, and bringing in
dramatic measurable results. While Pam's focus is always about a
smooth development trail, her focal point is on increasing awareness,
meeting corporate goals, increasing awareness for the company, executives,
and product, and growing sales.

Our Senior Managers
Each member of our team is a veteran of public relations and marketing
communications from diverse industries. Staying on top of emerging
trends and technologies are foremost priorities for our team, so
their skills are sharp and their media and analyst connections brilliant.
The team excels at market research and analytics, branding and collateral,
web development, corporate and product launches, writing programs,
crisis communication, outreach campaigns, speaking circuits, awards,
vertical market development, channel partner programs, customer
reference programs, and strategic alliance development to name a
few areas.
All said, Candelori Communications brings to our clients a distinctive
mix of strategic, technical, and creative expertise to help them
tell the right story to the people who matter most.

Our Talent
Our resources are wide and deep and our talented people have the
capabilities required to be effective and timely:
- Analysts
- Graphic Artists
- IT Professionals
- Researchers
- Web Programmers
- Writers and Seasoned Journalists
- Financial: Annual Reports, Quarterly Earnings
- Marketing: Technical papers, customer case studies,
data sheets, brochures, invitations
- Trade: white papers, application briefs, contributed
articles, news releases, and more
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