Alisha Dickinson - Account Director/Consumer LeadWith over 12 years of industry experience, Alisha Dickinson is a public relations veteran who excels at out-of-the-box thinking, creating compelling narratives, and selling great stories to the right reporters. She specializes in promoting fashion, beauty, food, and lifestyle brands, and has vast experience in assisting with new product launches, celebrity campaigns, social media campaigns, and influencer campaigns.

Alisha Dickinson - Account Director/Consumer Lead

With over 12 years of industry experience, Alisha Dickinson is a public relations veteran who excels at out-of-the-box thinking, creating compelling narratives, and selling great stories to the right reporters.

She specializes in promoting fashion, beauty, food, and lifestyle brands, and has vast experience in assisting with new product launches, celebrity campaigns, social media campaigns, and influencer campaigns.

Jen Canfield - Digital media

Digital media strategist with a decade of experience advising top political organizations and Fortune 500 companies, including NextGen America & Tom Steyer, Obama for America, and Samsung.

With extensive growth marketing experience, deep channel knowledge, targeting expertise and a data-driven approach, I’ve created dozens of campaigns that passed legislation, elected public officials and galvanized voters.

Jessica Shein - Account Directoor the past decade, Jessica has worked in communications and public relations, working in a variety of industries including nonprofit organizations, tech, healthcare, and social and human rights issues, as well as B2B, B2C, and legal PR. She has secured media coverage for her clients in The New York Times, Bloomberg, The BBC, The Washington Post, and The AP. Jessica received her B.S. in Communications from Florida International University and is a currently master’s candidate at Johns Hopkins University.

Jessica Shein - Account Director

For the past decade, Jessica has worked in communications and public relations, working in a variety of industries including nonprofit organizations, tech, healthcare, and social and human rights issues, as well as B2B, B2C, and legal PR. She has secured media coverage for her clients in The New York Times, Bloomberg, The BBC, The Washington Post, and The AP. Jessica received her B.S. in Communications from Florida International University and is a currently master’s candidate at Johns Hopkins University.

Joel Andren - CEO and Founder

Joel is a startup entrepreneur and has worked in PR in-house, on the agency side, and as a client. Joel is active in the San Francisco startup community as a speaker and advisor. Joel was marketing lead and employee #4, 5, and 6 at early-stage software companies and co-founded enterprise storage company, Bitcasa. He received an MA in Communication with a PR focus and started his career at the third-largest PR firm in Seattle.

Mark Karges - Account DirectorMark is an NYC-based PR specialist with 15 years of experience across tech, home entertainment/streaming, video games, consumer products, digital content , food & beverage , and more. During his career, he’s led both B2B and B2C campaigns resulting in placements in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Entertainment Weekly, IGN, and more. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, running, and playing music.

Mark Karges - Account Director/Tech lead

Mark is an NYC-based PR specialist with 15 years of experience across tech, home entertainment/streaming, video games, consumer products, digital content , food & beverage , and more. During his career, he’s led both B2B and B2C campaigns resulting in placements in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Entertainment Weekly, IGN, and more. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, running, and playing music.

Julia Van Broek - Account DirectorJulia previously worked at Mighty PR and Blanc & Otus where she secured coverage in publications such as Inc., Forbes, WSJ, The AP, WIRED, TechCrunch, NBC News, BuzzFeed, Reader's Digest, TODAY, TechRadar, Digital Journal, eWEEK, Business Insider and CNET. Past clients include Teradici, Oracle, SoundCloud, Rokoko, AirMap, DCM Ventures, Huami (a Xiaomi company), Kony, Jivox and ThinFilm Electronics.

Julia Van Broek - Account Director

Julia previously worked at Mighty PR and Blanc & Otus where she secured coverage in publications such as Inc., Forbes, WSJ, The AP, WIRED, TechCrunch, NBC News, BuzzFeed, Reader's Digest, TODAY, TechRadar, Digital Journal, eWEEK, Business Insider and CNET. Past clients include Teradici, Oracle, SoundCloud, Rokoko, AirMap, DCM Ventures, Huami (a Xiaomi company), Kony, Jivox and ThinFilm Electronics.

Paul Denya - CTO and Founder

Paul built the technology platform that PressFriendly runs on. Paul learned to code as a teenager and has enjoyed being a professional developer. He was working at NY ad agencies for a few years shipping microsites. He spent four years in San Francisco before recently moving to North Carolina. Before launching PressFriendly, Paul was employee #2 at HelloSign

Lauren Schiffman - Account Director

A 20-year veteran of the communications field, Lauren has successfully developed and implemented public relations plans for her clients in the fields of healthcare, human services, B2B and non-profit. She has developed and executed several award-winning campaigns for clients and has successfully nominated clients for awards in their respective fields. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. A native New Yorker, Lauren is proud to call Massachusetts home.

Shania Smith - Account Manager

Shania has worked in communications across entertainment, food & beverage, tourism and tech. She has secured coverage in publications such as Yahoo! Entertainment, Forbes, Eater, Entrepreneur, Rolling Stone, and more. Past clients include SONY, Johnny Cash Museum, Patsy Cline Museum, Johnny Cash Bar & BBQ, Nudie’s Honky Tonk, and Ghostwriter Music Group. Previous to working with PressFriendly, Shania worked at TikTok and directed crisis communications for emergent situations and investigative-related matters to promote safety on the platform.