Frank Cioffi brings strategic insight, authenticity and results to his clients' marketing communications programs. His approaches address the root issues behind the marketing challenges faced by today's organizations.

With twenty-five years of media and marketing experience as television producer, agency owner and communications consultant, he has devised and implemented strategies for clients ranging from young entrepreneurs to former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. He has received awards from the Public Relations Society of America and spearheaded campaigns which helped shift government policy and accelerated national trends in health and fitness.

Cioffi's agency has developed a client base in two fields for which he has considerable passion: health & fitness and technology. For nine years MLG represented Rodale Press (now Rodale), the nation's largest health and fitness publisher. Other clients have included a division of FILA, Raleigh USA Bicycles, Global Knowledge, The Sharper Image and EV Global Motors, the light electric vehicle company founded by Lee Iacocca.

Cioffi's recent strategies include internal communications programs which align a company's external marketing programs with its internal communications. This results in a corporate culture of leadership which empowers employees to be personal marketing representatives of their company.

Frank has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications Arts from New York City's Fordham University. When not developing marketing programs, he enjoys tinkering with consumer electronics, drumming, and traveling or wandering beaches with his wife.
   

Deborah Parker Wong leads the agency's high-technology practice supervising accounts ranging from software, to IT education, to Internet-based technologies. Her five years of high-tech PR experience are backed by five years as a PR consultant for the food and beverage industries.

"It is growth, both professional and personal, that best describes my experience at The Medialink Group," she says. "I compare it to walking the high wire with a net; you're challenged to perform at the highest levels, yet fully supported every step of the way."

Deborah Parker Wong began her career as a freelance journalist authoring restaurant reviews, food and lifestyle articles for the San Francisco Chronicle, in-flight magazines and the Hyatt Hotel chain. "If I weren't a publicist I'd be an investigative reporter, piecing together the stories that make the news."

Deborah has a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from San Francisco State University. A self-described "foodie," she also completed advanced food and wine studies at the Sterling School of Hospitality in Napa, CA and has qualified to take the rigorous Master Sommelier exam. She has traveled extensively in both Asia and Europe and speaks conversational Cantonese.

   



When MLG clients require investor relations services, we tap into our alliance with Ted Michel Associates. For 30 years Ted Michel has provided public and investor relations counsel to some of this country's major corporations, while also advising younger firms in the critical transition from early-IPO status to maturity as publicly traded companies.

Since establishing Ted Michel Associates in 1986, Ted has headed continuing programs or special assignments for Amdahl Corp., Autodesk Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co., Integrated Device Technologies, Levi Strauss & Co., Micronics Computers, Meridian Point Properties (a REIT), McClatchy Newspapers, On Command Corp., Power Spectra Inc. and San Francisco Federal Savings & Loan, among others.