Michael Geczi

Michael Geczi 14140 Moorpark Street, #234 Sherman Oaks, California, 90049 C:- e:-b: www.michaelgeczi.wordpress.com Profile: ● Writer/editor, author, journalist, university instructor and strategic communications professional. ● Focus on capital markets, transactions and legal issues ● Extensive international background: worked in more than 40 countries; lived in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Moscow and Hong Kong. Current: ● Of counsel/self-employed: strategic communications consulting, writing and digital entrepreneurship. Previous: ● Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Cast & Crew Entertainment Services, Burbank, California ● Adjunct Instructor, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism ● Writer/reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press ● Additionally, written/placed articles in numerous other publications: ○ Magazines: The Deal magazine, Inc. magazine, New Jersey Monthly magazine ○ Newspapers: The New York Times, South China Morning Post, PR Week, The Russia Journal, The New York Daily News, The Sporting News, The Financial Times of Canada, The Morris County (N.J.) Daily Record, The Bergen (N.J.) Record ○ Online: Daily Kos, PR Week, PR Daily ● Author of Futures: The Anti-Inflation Investment, published by Avon Books. Strategic Communications: Experienced communications/marketing executive with extensive experience providing clients facing sensitive crisis matters with strategic advice designed to protect the company's reputation and/or value. Develop and implement multi-stakeholder programs aimed at media, employees, customers, investors, business partners and lenders. In addition, accomplished writing coach and media/presentation trainer, having conducted hundreds of training sessions, primarily with C-level executives. Experience: Cast & Crew Entertainment Services Burbank, California Vice President, Marketing & Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Los Angeles Adjunct Instructor April 2014-June 2019 August 2013-May 2014 Michael Geczi 14140 Moorpark Street, #234 Sherman Oaks, California, 90049 C:- e:-b: www.michaelgeczi.wordpress.com Class taught (fall semester 2013): JOUR 209: Effective Writing for Strategic Public Relations Classes taught (spring semester 2014): JOUR 209: Effective Writing for Strategic Public Relations JOUR 450: Advanced Strategic Public Relations (capstone course) FTI Consulting Co., Chicago January 2007-May 2013 Managing Director, Special Situations (in Strategic Communications segment) APCO Worldwide, New York Senior Vice President - Edelman, Los Angeles and Hong Kong Executive Vice President, Los Angeles (financial communications) President, APAC Financial, Hong Kong (financial communications) - Sitrick and Company, New York, Los Angeles and Moscow Member of the Firm, GM - New York Member of the Firm, Head - Temporary Moscow Office Member of the Firm, Los Angeles - Gavin Anderson & Company, New York President, U.S. Delegation Head, Kiev, Ukraine USAID office - Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart (previously Adams & Rinehart) Senior Managing Director, Head of Financial Practice - Merrill Lynch, New York Vice President, Capital Markets Media Relations - The Wall Street Journal (editor/reporter), New York - BusinessWeek magazine (Markets and Investments editor), New York - Associated Press (supervising business editor), New York - The Dallas Morning News (Bureau chief), New York - Experience (author): Futures: The Anti-Inflation Investment (published by Avon Books in 1980) Michael Geczi 14140 Moorpark Street, #234 Sherman Oaks, California, 90049 C:- e:-b: www.michaelgeczi.wordpress.com Congressional Testimony: U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (2005) Education: Western New England University Springfield, Massachusetts Bachelor of Arts ###