Focus

Al Black is a senior director at Qorvis Communications and has a tremendous amount of agency and corporate experience working in technology-related marketing and public relations. He has honed his career working with senior executives at established firms as well as web-based Start-Ups to help them realize their corporate and product/service public relations goals. Driven by a “results-oriented” focus to public relations, Black has helped organizations analyze their current market climate, develop winning communications strategies and execute effective tactics to gain influence among core constituents. Through print, broadcast and influencer-driven venues, Black has enabled these organizations to build market share, increase visibility and branding and drive sales.

Pertinent Background & Relationships

• Senior Communications Manager at Stratos, a global satellite communications firm in Bethesda, Maryland, where he performed both public relations and investor relations work throughout the Americas and EMEA, focusing chiefly on the government, aeronautical and maritime markets.
• Director of Communications at OneSoft, an Internet commerce company, where the helped guide the company’s executive leadership through the competitive market landscape in order to favorably distinguish the company and its offering among customers, analysts and media.
• Senior Account Supervisor, Technology Team, at Ketchum Worldwide. There, Black’s accounts included a number of premiere technology clients, including
• Sun Microsystems, Network Solutions, American Management Systems and
  Capital One. Black also managed numerous start-up accounts, gaining press for new and smaller companies in outlets such as the Financial Times, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and CNN. While at Ketchum, Black’s campaigns for Capital One and American Management Systems were each nominated for CIPRA public relations recognition for excellence awards.

Education

Black received his B.A. in Political Science from Franklin & Marshall College.