Advisory Council
Joseph Hice, Jr., APR, Chair
Associate Vice President, Marketing & Public Relations, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Rebecca Hart, APR, Vice Chair
Partner, Hart & Partners, Atlantic Beach, FL
Christine B. Ahearn
Vice President of Public Relations, Lowe’s Companies, Inc., Mooresville, NC
David J. Albritton
Vice President Communications, ITT Corporation, McLean,VA
Cheryl Budd
Chief Communications Officer, NCCI Holdings, Inc., Boca Raton, FL
Angela Buonocore
Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, ITT Corporation, White Plains, NY
Marc Cannon
Vice President, Corporate Communications, AutoNation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Michael Cherenson, APR
Vice President, Public Relations, The Cherenson Group, Parsippany, NJ
Joseph J. Curley, APR
Public Relations & Marketing Consultant, Stingray Solutions, Inc., Surrey, Vancouver
Anthony D’Angelo, APR
Director, Operations, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Foundation, Syracuse, NY
John Deveney, ABC, APR
President, Deveney Communication, New Orleans, LA
Craig Dezern
Vice President, Global Public Relations, Walt Disney World Company, Lake Buena Vista, FL
Katie Foster, APR
Chief Development and Communications Officer, Broward Partnership for the Homeless, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
C. Del Galloway, APR, Fellow PRSA
Executive Director, Public Awareness Initiative, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, DC
Karen Jones
Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications, DHL Express, Plantation, FL
Frank Karel, III
Retired, Vice President of Communications, Rockefeller and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, Washington, DC
Grace Leong
President, Hunter Public Relations, New York, NY
Gary McCormick, APR, Fellow PRSA
Director of Partnership Marketing, DIY Network, Knoxville, TN
Gigi G. de Mier, APR, Fellow PRSA
Principal, De Mier & Sainz de la Maza, San Juan, PR
David Morse
Vice President, Communications, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
Charles Nicolas
Vice President, Public Affairs, Frito-Lay North America, Plano, TX
Robert Grupp
President & CEO, Institute for Public Relations, Gainesville, FL
Alberto Quintana
Senior Vice President and General Manager, The Axis Agency, Miami, FL
Oscar Suris
Director, Strategic Communications, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI
Susan B. Towler, APR
Executive Director, The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Elena del Valle
Principal, LNA World Communications, Boca Raton, FL
Deborah Charnes Vallejo
Vice President, Managing Director of Public Relations, Bromley Communications, San Antonio, TX
The Campaign for the University of Florida