Elyse Familant

Elyse is passionate about innovating and comes by it honestly as both her father and brother were awarded patents for their technology innovations. Elyse's strength is in the art of innovative storytelling.  She knows how to create compelling technology narratives that feed into the latest trends that resonate with business and trade media. She is a results-driven PR strategist with more than 25+ years of experience working with start-ups to large corporations.

During her career, Elyse has placed hundreds of stories in key publications such as the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Boston Globe, Forbes and top IT trades such as CIO, WIRED, InfoWorld, Healthcare IT News, Modern Healthcare, Security Magazine, Dark Reading and more. She has also secured client appearances on TV news outlets including 60 Minutes and local cable news stations.

Elyse works to position clients' stories in the right media outlets and amplify the messages through social, search and other digital strategies. She has guided clients through periods of rapid growth, IPOs, acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate milestones.  Elyse couples her extensive relationships with editors and analysts with her relentless drive and determination to get results.

Elyse holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University with a concentration in communication arts and marketing. She is a certified Yoga, Pilates, and Spinning instructor and has been teaching fitness classes for more than 25 years.

Amelie Gardella Johnson

Amelie has 25+ years of experience specializing in tech PR strategy and execution ranging from small start-up companies to large publicly held companies. She understands technology news cycles and how to get a client’s story told. She is highly skilled in developing, managing, and executing company and product positioning strategies; spearheading company and product launches; managing and conducting industry analyst programs; crisis management strategies, and executing media campaigns with the technology trade press and the local and national business press. 

Amelie has a strong background in technology, cybersecurity and healthcare and has worked in several healthcare settings, including 6 years of medical research at the New England Deaconess Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital and worked in development at the Harvard School of Public Health.  During the past 20 years, Amelie has managed and worked on many accounts with Results PR including Radware, SenecaGlobal, DataDome, Caradigm, Artificial Medical Intelligence, FitLlinxx, AbilTo, and the British Medical Journal.

Previously, Amelie spent nine years at Copithorne & Bellows (C&B), now Porter Novelli. At C&B, she played major roles on several well-known companies, including EMC Corp., PLATINUM Software, Sterling Commerce, Leading Edge, as well as divisions of AOL, IBM, and HP. Prior to C&B, she held PR positions at Mullen Advertising, McCormack & Dodge (Dun & Bradstreet Software) and Cullinet Software, Inc. Amelie holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Wheaton College.

Kelly Martin

Kelly brings to Results PR more than 20 years' experience in social media, high-tech sales and marketing. Kelly's specialties include media relations, thought leadership development, digital marketing—web-site content creation, social media and email marketing/newsletters.

Her career includes positions at Genesys Software, Wang Laboratories and PictureTel (now Polycom), where she held responsibilities in pre-sales, call center management, channel/partner marketing, database management and corporate marketing.

Kelly regularly provides marketing consultation to small and medium-size businesses poised for growth. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from Salem State University and a master's degree in business administration from Southern New Hampshire University. Kelly enjoys dance, yoga, and spending time in nature.

Michael Dowding

Michael is a thought-leadership writer for Results PR, who specializes in helping companies articulate their business and technology messages in compelling and memorable ways. With more than 30 years of writing and public relations experience in areas such as cybersecurity, healthcare/life sciences, and financial services, Michael has worked with some of the world’s leading technology brands as well as numerous emerging companies. Michael also operates his own freelance writing practice, Wordscape Communications, and teaches at Boston University’s College of Communication.

Michael earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Suffolk University with a concentration in finance. He is also a graduate of Boston University where he earned both a Master of Science degree in print journalism and a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree in English literature with a minor in psychology.

Melinda Reinicker

With 15+ years of cybersecurity public relations and marketing experience, Melinda specializes in media relations, industry research and creating pitches, press releases and other content. She understands complex business and technology challenges and knows how to simplify jargon to make it understandable and accessible for media, business, and consumer audiences.

 Prior to Results PR, Melinda worked for the Retail and Hospitality ISAC (RH-ISAC) as the Director of Marketing and Communications where she developed RH-ISAC marketing and communications strategies in support of the organization’s objectives to deliver member value, drive growth and build awareness of RH-ISAC’s mission and vision. Melinda previously worked for the National Defense ISAC (NDISAC) as the Manager of Marketing and Communications, NTT Security as a Marketing Content Manager and Technical Writer, and as a Program Analyst for the Control System Security Program (CSSP) and Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 

 Melinda is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a bachelor’s in international relations and history. In her free time, Melinda enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and reading. You can find her either on the tennis courts, golf course, or playing with her kids on the beach.

Shelby Hiter 

Shelby is a writer, editor, and content strategist who primarily focuses on B2B technology topics, with special emphasis on healthcare and health technology, cybersecurity, enterprise IT, project management, IT thought leadership, and Big Data. As an editor and journalist, she knows what it takes to tell a compelling, relatable story for even the most complicated of technologies. Her work has appeared in publications such as TechRepublic, Datamation, eSecurity Planet, Enterprise Networking Planet, CIO Insight, AllBusiness.com, and SiteProNews. Beyond B2B content strategy, she also specializes in marketing and communication strategies and the occasional photo collage of her dog.