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Kaitlen Murphy

Managing Associate

Kaitlen Murphy brings to Olmstead Williams Communications over 10 years of experience in public relations, marketing and event planning. Her specialties include creating targeted content for the web, press releases, printed materials, direct email campaigns, social media and the stage. As managing associate, she works to provide strategy and deliver timely and newsworthy coverage of clients in the technology, life sciences and professional services industries.

More about Murphy:

  • Prior to joining OWC, Murphy consulted with LEWIS PR’s San Francisco and Boston offices on technology accounts, providing industry research and media relations content.
  • She was the director of marketing and public relations for Acoustic Technology, a Boston engineering firm, where she oversaw branding and messaging.
  • Murphy began her career in Los Angeles at Miramax Films and Rogers & Cowan, a division of Weber Shandwick Worldwide, where for nearly five years she worked on campaigns with consumer mainstays IBM, Dos Equis, American Airlines, Schick, LeapFrog and Ray-Ban. From product placement and promotions, to influential and event seeding, she secured notable and measurable results for her clients.
  • In San Francisco, she spent three years planning content, executing and promoting technology events on topics spanning data security, green technologies, open source, web design and enterprise architecture. For both Fawcette Technical Publications (now part of 1105 Media) and InfoWorld Media Group, she worked with a network of editors and technology influencers to foster dynamic learning experiences.
  • Murphy received a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Boston College in English and Communications.