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I am a PR and social media expert and founder of Elkordy Global Strategies. Over the past 20+ years, I've worked in both journalism and public relations, helping more than 800 startups, growth-stage companies, nonprofits, government agencies, e-commerce brands, books, and thought leaders raise their visibility, build credibility, and grow their brands. What makes Elkordy Global Strategies different is that we're part newsroom, part PR agency. More than half of our team are former journalists, and I still produce a daily national television news show. We understand what reporters, producers, and editors are looking for because we've been on the other side of the pitch. I've worked with Fortune 500 companies, startups, personal brands, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, technology companies, and executives across nearly every industry. Whether you're launching a company, building your personal brand, securing media coverage, navigating a crisis, or positioning yourself as a thought leader, we know how to get your story in front of the right audience. Our clients have been featured in Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, NewsNation, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, ABC News, Good Morning America, TODAY, USA Today, The Associated Press, The New York Times, MSNBC, BBC, Sky News, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Hill, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Al Jazeera, CNN Español, CGTN, Voice of America, and hundreds of other national, international, broadcast, print, and digital media outlets. What can we do for you? We're a one-stop PR shop. We help clients with: • Earned media outreach and media relations • Thought leadership and executive positioning • Personal branding and executive visibility • Social media strategy and management • Content creation and content marketing • Podcast production and guest booking • Speaking opportunities and conference placements • Crisis communications and reputation management • Digital media strategy and execution • Product launches and campaign development • Strategic communications planning and messaging Additional credentials include being a TEDx speaker, a City & State 40 Under 40 honoree, and a 2026 recipient of City & State's Unsung Heroes Award. Elkordy Global Strategies was recognized by PRNEWS as one of the Top PR Firms of 2025, and I have been a featured speaker at DC Startup Week multiple times. I hold an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master's degree in Communications and Public Relations from Georgetown University, and most recently completed a Master's degree in International Strategy and Diplomacy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). If you're looking for a team that understands both the media and business sides of communications, we'd love to help!

WARNING: Past performance is not indicative of future results. I cannot guarantee media coverage of your business, organization, or cause. With that said, I’ve arranged media coverage of Taylor Swift’s casket (google it for more info); a restaurant’s $615,000 lawsuit against New York City (also easily found on google); and a barber who moonlights as a salami maker (yep, also on google). Since 2020, I’ve arranged over 200 earned media placements in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe (including two front page stories), the New York Post, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, INSIDER, CNN, MSNBC, New York Magazine, Slate, A/V Club, NBC Nightly News, Fast Company, and dozens of other top-tier publications and outlets. DM me to have a 15 minute conversation about getting PR for your business - or better yet book a 30 minute consultation!

Most writers can put words on a page. Very few understand the room the words are walking into. I do. I served as Chief of Staff and Communications Director to the Global Chairman of a private equity firm - operating across New York and Dubai, writing for boardrooms, governments, and principals who have no tolerance for anything less than exact. Before that, I spent years at the highest levels of American political life - advising at the executive level, supporting presidential and Senate-level campaigns, and building coalitions that moved initiatives and outcomes at national scale. I've ghostwritten for executives, public figures, and athletes. I've built pitch decks that secured investments. I've written speeches delivered on national stages. I've crafted narratives for international institutions and brands that needed to sound like they belonged in rooms they were still trying to enter. What I actually do: I take what you're trying to say - your pitch, your vision, your ask - and I make it land the way it was meant to. Pitch decks. Speeches. Executive ghostwriting. Proposals. Long-form thought leadership. High-stakes communications of any kind. I'm not a typical Upwork hire. I'm what you bring in when the stakes are real and the writing has to be right. Bilingual - English and Spanish, native level. Available globally. If you've read this far, you already know whether we're a fit.

Seasoned PR Pro with over 20 years of expertise in public relations, publicity, media relations, and communications. All-rounder with solid PR and Publicity experience with in-house departments, external PR agencies, employee/ freelancer/contractor roles. Solid expertise across Business, Tech, Entrepreneur, Thought Leader, ECommerce, Start Ups, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle, Health & Wellness and Generalist industry sectors. Podcasts and Digital PR a specialty! Self-motivated driven to results.

Subject matter expert and content strategist: Expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, markets, tech, telecom, startups, venture capital, public companies, M&A regulators, debt, and life and health insurance. I had my own blog on Forbes on tech company strategy. I had a two-year contract writing blogs highlighting SPS by With Intelligence’s private equity data and wrote insurance advice content for U.S. News & World Report. Investigative tech, media and telecom M&A reporter: I’m a longtime investigative tech and finance reporter with an extensive track record of breaking news. I have strong connections to Wall Street and the banking community. My sources are investment bankers, C-level executives, lawyers, regulators, and private equity and venture capital professionals. AI: Freelance work for Mercor as a scriptwriter, training xAI’s chatbot Grok, and in prompt engineering. Audio annotation for Micro1. Subject matter expert for Turing. SEO certifications: Five certificate courses on search engine optimization from UC Davis on SEO best practices. _________________________________________________________________ Freelance: Content writer, reporter, artificial intelligence (April 2022 to present); Scriptwriting for Mercor training xAI’s chatbot, prompt engineering; audio annotation for Micro1; subject matter expert for Turing; blogs highlighting Sutton Place Strategies’ private equity data; insurance reviews for U.S. News & World Report; finance stories for Mergers & Acquisitions; biotech and biopharma stories for Endpoints News; satellite-centric news for Connectivity Business; ESG investing for Equity Report in the U.K.; gigs on Upwork. CTFN: Senior reporter (August 2015 to March 2022); Wrote market moving news about mergers and acquisitions for a publication sold to hedge funds. I wrote scoops on the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and C-band repurposing; T-Mobile’s discussions with Dish; Zayo Group's sale; Carbon Black's sale; the breakup of Frontier Communications; the IPO of Switch; Yahoo’s faulty non-disclosure agreements as it attempted to sell (cited in a shareholder letter by Starboard Value); and data center divestitures by CenturyLink, AT&T and Verizon, among many others. Self-employed: Freelance reporter (December 2013 to April 2016); Reporting for Forbes, TheStreet, CTFN, Brightwire, among other publications. I contributed technology and telecom M&A scoops to CTFN and Brightwire, corporate strategy commentary and blogs to Forbes, investor news to TheStreet. Mergermarket and Dealreporter: Senior reporter and global telecommunications head: (Oct 2003 - Oct 2013); Telecom, media and technology reporter for these M&A-focused publications. I broke hundreds of stories about private and public companies. Particular strength in telecom infrastructure. I wrote about sales, divestitures, IPOs, reverse mergers, venture capital and private equity financings in telecommunications and technology. Education Bowling Green State University Master of Arts, Communications University of New Hampshire Bachelor of Arts, English

Bringing AI and Data Analytics to create digtal marketing solutions. I will build a project scope arounf your requirements and your resources, so the we can build a program that supports your team. CERTIFICATIONS: - IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (Completion estimated June 2020): Coursework includes: Data Science Tools & Methodology; Python for Data Science and AI; Databases and SQL; Data Analysis & Visualization; Machine Learning with Python. - eCornell – Agentic AI Architecture; Marketing with AI; and Growth Marketing. - Skilled Agile Framework (SAFe) – Certified SAFe 6 - Hubspot: Content Marketing MAKE A PLAN: - Work together to identify your business goals Identify data to provide predictive insight - Align data to generate timely reporting, and validate the current activities - Identify changes and opportunities to make changes REALLY GOOD AT: Making data available to inform and track your business goals TOP PROJECT GOALS: Generating Leads and Personalizing the Customer Journey - Talking through and designing the big-picture solution, so clients can actually get what they want out of their projects - Integrating marketing tools to build marketing insights and data platforms -- Some tools - Hubspot, MailChimp, Google Drive, Zapier, Unbounce - The goal is to identify a customer tracking database, most likely a CRM system, that can drive and track activity Product integration is the key driver for automating your steps & project tracking: -- The goal is to find the most direct path for passing data between stack products. There are 3 levels of integration that will work: 1st - Find direct integration solutions where one product connects to another 2nd - Using an integration product, such as Zapier, to connect two or more products 3rd - Use a go-between product, like Google Sheets, as a sharing platform to pass data I WILL…. -- Plan the strategy for optimizing contact list development, segmentation tagging, and email scheduling, both automated programs and one-timers. -- Optimize your set-up, even rebuild it if necessary. Now that you are using it, we should set up your marketing tool stack to support the workflow. -- Hand it all over to you with the 'how-to' documentation. MOST RECENT: - The Hershey Company -- Co-led a digital transformation. Aligned marketing goals with data availability and workflow processes - Target -- Built a HubSpot Vendor application platform - Newsweek -- led the design and workflow requirements for a new front page ad units. - MailChimp -- 12 MailChimp projects, including one where we moved from MailChimp to Gmass/Gmail to look for an alternative solution for staying out of Gmail's "Promotions" tab. The most complex included an email/voice message sequence that used Zapier to send a voicemail after the 2nd email in the sequence. - Typeform -- As a data-entry, alternative-form solution for a CRM / document management application. OVERALL: I enjoy the challenge of bringing new products to market. Skilled at product positioning, feature development, and making an impact. Looking for opportunities to contribute my experience from working with major online publishing organizations and bootstrapped start-ups. Prominent projects include SuperBowl com, the US Open of Surfing, Lycos and AOL Search (over 20,000,000 daily page views), and the Digital Media On Demand music download service. PROJECT HISTORY I have been freelancing on remote projects since 2009, working first with a team in Seattle and later in Luxembourg from my location in NY. I have only been working on Upwork since mid-2018, so please don't be concerned about my limited Upwork history; I am a highly experienced freelance resource and understand the importance of each project to your business. FEE The quoted Upwork fee is based on a week-to-week, ongoing project and is negotiable based on skills employed on a per-project basis. EDUCATION Univ of Scranton - MBA Clarkson Univ - BS / Industrial Distribution