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[ Rad Dewey's Career Experience ]

Rad (nicknamed from his initials) has a rich background in marketing communications, the web, public relations, advertising, newspaper reporting and communications research. Since 1969, he has developed, written and edited marketing communications materials, and devised and conducted public relations and marketing support and media relations programs for a wide range of consumer, industrial and high technology products and services. He is also experienced in development and management of market studies and attitudinal research.

Through the early 1970s, he was with the Public Relations Division of Cole & Weber, Portland. Thereafter he joined Edelman Public Relations in San Francisco. He was a vice president of Lowry Russom & Leeper and a founding principal of Lowry & Partners. He was also writer-in-chief and a senior account supervisor for Pat Meier Associates, a San Francisco-based high technology public relations agency. Then he moved to the Internet, eventually becoming senior editor of ThirdAge.com. As its writer-in-chief for its newsletters, daily front page and marketing materials he became the "voice" of the leading online destination for first-wave baby boomers.

As an independent copywriter specializing in marketing communications and public relations, primarily for business-to-business, he has been widely recognized for his communications program management and copywriting skills.

He is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators and Society of Professional Journalists. He has been a director of The Museum Society, the membership organization of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Asian Art Museum. He is also a director of the Friends of Mountain Lake Park and he edits the organization's newsletter. He has also been an information volunteer for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences and a tour docent for KQED (public radio and television). Education: Oregon State University (undergraduate - English) and the University of Oregon (graduate - journalism, marketing and communications research).

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Last modified: April 13, 2008