Rachel Aquino's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Senior Manager, Content Partnerships @ Forbes San Francisco Bay AreaManager, Marketing & Communications @ BuzzBoard, Inc. Led communications and content strategy. BuzzBoard uncovers data-driven insights about SMBs that drive more meaningful conversations for marketers and sellers, resulting in increased sales across the customer lifecycle. By applying data science and digital signals to the world’s most extensive collection of business intelligence about SMBs, BuzzBoard answers the most important question for marketers and sellers: why will my prospects and customers want to engage? Customers include Hearst, Gatehouse Media, Gannett and YP. From 2016 to 2017 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaCommunications Lead @ Hack Reactor I started at Hack Reactor (acquired by Galvanize) as the first and only PR hire when it was just one location in San Francisco, to leading communications for them as they became one of the leading bootcamps in the country. I've worked on launches for their network of coding schools -- MakerSquare, Telegraph Academy and Mobile Makers Academy (with multiple locations across the US: San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Berkeley and Online), as well as on their high-profile partnerships -- President Obama's Tech Hire Initiative & the Last Mile's Code.7370 program that teaches inmates at San Quentin how to code.• Managed communications department: content, PR, events, social media and email• Secured local, national, international, tech and business press in publications such as: Bloomberg, Wired, TechCrunch, CBS News, Tech.Co, BBC, Los Angeles Times, NPR, EdSurge, International Business Times, Business Insider, Yahoo! Tech, CBC, TechZulu, The Journal, L.A. Biz, The Asahi Shimbun, Education Dive, VentureBeat, Statesman, Los Angeles Business Journal, Toronto Star, Forbes; as well as set up briefings and interviews with USA Today, New York Times, Re/Code & more• Managed and mentored Content Specialist, Communications Specialist, PR Intern, Social Media Intern, and Content Marketing Intern (developed and ran 2015 marketing internship program), as well as directly worked with our external public affairs/communications agency From 2015 to 2016 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaPublic Relations Manager @ Hack Reactor Hack Reactor designs and conducts advanced immersion education programs that train students over 12 weeks. The curriculum cultivates mastery of computer science fundamentals and the JavaScript programming language. The Hack Reactor network of technology schools educates more software engineers every year than Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, combined. Alumni work in a variety of mid- to senior-level engineering roles at industry leaders like Google, Adobe, LinkedIn, Uber and Amazon, as well as at growing tech companies. From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Public Relations SAE @ Engage PR Engage (now Witz Communications) is a premier communications agency that combines creativity, knowledge and experience to move their clients to the forefront of their markets. By designing programs that combine multiple disciplines, including traditional PR, social media and marketing communications, they enable companies to build market awareness and create the momentum that facilitates positive business results. • Content creation, media relations, social media, analyst relations, business development, etc. for clients in tech and business: Worked with Dimension Data ($6B global ICT solutions and services provider), was Americas contact for Devicescape, Team Lead for Innovators and Influencers, and provided messaging and strategy for ReTXT and other startups. • Established ongoing relationships with Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Inc., ensuring a stream of regular contributed articles by my client on a monthly/bi-monthly basis, and secured client briefings with top-tier publications including The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, which resulted in future articles• Managed and mentored Account Coordinators and PR Interns From 2014 to 2014 (less than a year) San Francisco Bay AreaCorporate Relations Manager, North America @ Hult International Business School Hult is the world's most international business school – with campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai and rotation centers in Sao Paulo and New York. Hult is ranked as a top 20 business school in the U.S. by The Economist, is in the top 1% of all business schools worldwide and is ranked #1 for International Experience by the Financial Times.• Partnership initiatives -- created and maintained strategic relationships with national and global companies including Fortune 500s, SMEs and startups, arranged and facilitated on-campus speaker events (Johnson & Johnson, Starbucks Corporation, FINCA), coordinated company visits (IBM Research, EA, Yahoo!), and liaison to executive guests (i.e. US Ambassador, author of the best selling high-tech marketing guide, cofounder of top social media site, etc.)• Locally managed Corporate Relation’s communications for the San Francisco campus, including campus marketing, weekly e-newsletter, and coached international MBA and Masters students on securing jobs, networking/building relationships with companies and professional development.• Worked with companies and employers to match Hult candidates to their employment and internship needs and streamline their recruiting/hiring process (Panasonic, Google, Twitter) From 2012 to 2013 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaProject Manager, Marketing @ Heald College - Corporate Heald College is a private career college that has been preparing students for rewarding careers in Healthcare, Business, Legal and Technology for nearly 150 years. Heald includes 12 campuses across the western United States.• Responsible for leading corporate marketing projects from start to finish, including development and redesign of marketing pieces• Social media team lead, involved in building out the process and procedure for Heald's Facebook initiative, producing social media training materials and conducting team calls/meetings with the social media team from every campus• Managed marketing and admissions collateral production and inventory for 12 campuses and interfaced with campuses to flesh out Creative Service Requests • Executed national email campaigns (ExactTarget)• Spearheaded a post-graduate outreach initiative, including creating the business process, phone-scripts, email templates, marketing collateral and reporting method, along with making the sales calls and providing customer service—to further promote and measure retention for a database of thousands of students From 2009 to 2012 (3 years) San Francisco Bay AreaMicrosoft Student Partner - Marketing Representative @ Microsoft (Volt Information Sciences) Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) is a prestigious program that recognizes students who have made outstanding contributions to the student community. Each academic year, Microsoft selects the most talented students from around the world for their dedication, passion and involvement. Microsoft chooses one skilled student from each institution at a time to serve as representatives.Selected as the only marketing rep at UC Berkeley for 2008 - 2009:• Web 2.0-twittering, Xbox-playing, event-planning, TabletPC-slinging, tech-blogging, smartphone-carrying, Zune-rocking, Media Center-watching, PowerPoint-presenting, and ninja-marketing. From 2008 to 2009 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Brand Producer, Content Marketing @ Forbes From January 2018 to December 2018 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Marketing @ Ansa Ansa empowers people to communicate completely off the record so they can be themselves and share freely with friends.- Go "off the record" and have full conversations that automatically disappear - Send self-destructing texts, photos, drawings and other multimedia - Use synced deletion to take back messages that were already delivered and read Press & Media:- Silicon Valley - HBO original series (invited to participate in TechCrunch Disrupt scenes)- The Road to Disrupt - AOL/TechCrunch original 12-series documentary (one of five startups profiled)- #1 secure alternative to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - Fox News- One of the best new apps for tablets and smartphones - MSN Tech- #1 app that could take Facebook's crown - BT- A new breed of messaging app, one that allows you to be yourself - TechCrunch- For those who take their online footprint seriously - Yahoo! News- The killer feature is that you can also retroactively delete messages already sent - ReadWrite- Snapchat kicked it off for photos, of course, but now there’s also Ansa - New York Times Bits Blog- Standout fighter on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield - VentureBeat- One of the best Android apps this week - The Guardian- Ephemeral messaging is very much in its infancy...There are other names like Ansa - Forbes- One of the best apps of the week - Digital Trends- This San Francisco startup takes Snapchat a step further - Silicon Valley Business JournalEvents & Awards:- 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield Finalist- Privacy Identity Innovation | pii2013 - Innovator Spotlight, Audience Choice Award- 2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalist• Founding Team Member• Managed multiple campus brand ambassadors and interns in marketing, PR, graphic design/animation, etc. From 2013 to 2014 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaContent and Editorial @ CBS Interactive CBS Interactive, a division of CBS Corporation, is the world’s largest publisher of premium digital content and a perennial top 10 Internet company.Internship at CBS Interactive for TV.com:• Authored episode summaries and recaps• Wrote creative copy, compiled and identified images to use, created photo captions, added shows and their information to the website and updated a variety of different online content on the TV.com site From 2009 to 2009 (less than a year) San Francisco Bay Area