Account Management Staff
Edward Nebb
Managing Director, Investor Relations
Ed has more than 25 years experience as an IR advisor to clients ranging from small cap companies to the Fortune 500. He has assisted clients with IPOs and follow-on offerings: material disclosure issues, M&A and other financial transactions, buy-side and sell-side outreach, and a range of crisis situations. Ed’s domestic and international clients have included: AIG, American Eagle Outfitters, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Conseco, Diana Shipping, D&B, Gartner, Gucci, Ingersoll-Rand, L-3 Communications, Monster Worldwide, National Re, Prudential Insurance, Resources Global, Reuters, RJR-Nabisco, Saks Fifth Avenue, Take-Two Interactive and Toshiba.
Prior to his affiliation with Kwittken & Company Ed ran IR and financial communications practices for Euro RSCG Magnet, Hawthorn Group and BSMG Worldwide. Earlier, he was a partner in the investor relations firm Morgen-Walke Associates. Ed began his career as corporate communications, investor relations and community reinvestment officer for a New Jersey banking institution upon his graduation from Yale University in 1978.
Karen Marotta
Senior Director
Over the past decade, Karen has specialized in providing targeted business-to-business public relations counsel to professional and financial services companies. Karen focuses on strategic media relations and has placed past clients in media outlets such as Financial Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, CNBC, Associated Press, and The New York Times.
Prior to joining kwittken + company, Karen served as Vice President at financial public relations firm MacMillan Communications. In this role, Karen led media coverage efforts for investment bank Robert W. Baird, law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, consultancy Accretive Solutions, as well as ING Clarion and FAF Advisors / First American Funds. During her seven years at MacMillan, Karen played an instrumental role in raising visibility for legitimate home-based call center work provider Arise Virtual Solutions, putting the term “homeshoring” on the map with placements in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BBC, Good Morning America, Businessweek, NPR, Reuters, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and multiple broadcast affiliates.
Prior to joining MacMillan Communications, Karen worked with banking and financial technology clients at Intermarket Communications, a boutique financial PR firm in New York. Karen provided PR counsel to various international clients, including the Swiss Bankers Association, Bank Julius Baer and Axiss Australia, the financial services division of Invest Australia.
Karen began her career at Boston-based Kelly Habib John / KHJ Public Relations helping to launch high-technology companies into the marketplace, including B2B and marketing automation service providers.
Karen received her BA in Communication from the State University of New York College at Geneseo, where she served as program manager of radio station WGSU-FM.
Karen resides in Manhattan with her husband James.
Russell Weigandt
Director
Russell Weigandt joined kwittken + company in June 2008 and supports a variety of accounts ranging from healthcare to retail, education and technology companies. In addition to his general account management responsibilities, Russell supports Kwittken & Company primarily by serving as a member of its editorial services team.
Prior to Kwittken, Russell worked as a communications specialist for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, one of the nation’s largest property and casualty insurance companies. While there, he supported a number of communications functions, including public relations, internal communications and executive communications. In his public relations role, Russell promoted the Chubb Charity Challenge, the company’s annual charity golf tournament, and ghostwrote numerous articles to demonstrate the industry expertise of senior Chubb executives in insurance and financial trade publications. His work has been published in Best’s Review, Insurance Journal, National Underwriter, Investment Advisor, Financial Adviser, InvestmentNews, The Personal Digest and Personal Finance. He also wrote and managed the weekly internal newsletter, which is distributed to all of Chubb’s employees worldwide. In addition to providing executives with communications counsel and support, he wrote marketing materials, several business unit publications, advertorials, annual report F.O.B. features and profiles, executive speeches and corporate strategy documents.
Russell holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Boston College and a Master’s Degree in journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
William Nikosey
Account Supervisor
Will provides strategic media relations, idea generation and strong research support to both the corporate and consumer practice areas of kwittken + company. Constantly surveying the media landscape, his “nose for news” has resulted in countless media placements in a diverse array of media outlets including CNBC, USA Today, Entrepreneur, The Deal, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Thrillist, Urban Daddy, FOX Business News, AM New York among others.
In addition to deep traditional media expertise and experience, Will is also firmly entrenched in the social media community and working closely with many of the Agency’s clients to develop and execute, smart, relevant and authentic social media strategies.
Will started his career in public relations early through high-profile internships while still pursuing his bachelor’s degree in communications at Seton Hall University. Will supported the account teams at Taylor and Catalyst Public Relations, providing media relations and research support for Xbox, IronMan Triathlon, Accelerade, Reebok and NOPI Drag Racing.
Before joining Kwittken & Company, Will also worked at Daddi Brand Communications, planning and executing business building marketing and communications campaigns for Cotton, Inc., French Tuesday’s, ChinaOneCall and New York Spring Water.
William currently resides in Jersey City, NJ.
Emily Peck
Account Supervisor
Emily Peck is an Account Supervisor at kwittken + company and works with many of the agency’s corporate and consumer accounts across multiple industries including healthcare, retail and education.
Emily is responsible for account management as well as high-impact media and blogger relations.
Prior to joining kwittken + company, Emily worked at Obviouslee Marketing, where she supported a variety of hospitality and technology clients. Previously, Emily played an integral role in establishing the public relations department at the I’On Club in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in corporate communications from the College of Charleston.
Erin Ryder
Senior Account Executive
Erin Ryder has nearly a decade of experience working with a number of the country’s most prestigious luxury brands and non-profits. Currently Erin is the day-to-day PR account lead for a number of kwittken + company’s retail, real estate, automotive and professional services clients. In addition, she is a key team member supporting several integrated accounts within kwittken + company’s parent company kbs+p.
Prior to joining kwittken + company, Erin was the PR director for shelter start-up LoftLife magazine, and The Black Book photography & illustration creative industry source books. Erin began her PR career with Mercedes-Benz USA, where she spent five years on the National Brand Communications and Product & Technology teams in the Corporate Communications department.
While at other agencies, Erin worked with a number of well-known consumer brands and non-profit organizations, including American Cancer Society, Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Lennox Hill Neighborhood House and Evian Natural Spring Water. Additionally, Erin has been featured as a contributing writer in LoftLife and CITY magazine.
Erin holds a Bachelors Degree in Marketing from Quinnipiac University, and continued post-graduate coursework in the Public Relations & Corporate Communications program at New York University.
