Staff
Kathy Gronau, Creative PR’s founder and head honcho, leads the company’s acquisition, promotion, production, conference organizing, accounting, and global networking. Widely known and respected in the public radio world, a former board member of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), a commentator for various trade publications, and a phone pal with just about every programmer in the biz, Kathy is a visionary who has been in broadcast media for more than twenty years.
Creative PR has a database of all the radio stations in the United States and many internationally. Its clients include Playboy, Bayer, AARP, NPR, and Pacifica, as well as countless independent producers. Creative PR prides itself on people-to-people service and networking.
Kathy works from her home office in Hollywood, the capital of hype, where she shares a modern cosmopolitan lunch five days a week with her staff—Helen Peppard, Wayne Knickel, and Jazz Beitler—all with extensive and varied backgrounds in public relations and marketing and a dedication to the arts.
Wayne Knickel‘s public relations career has hopped from historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., to Washington’s equally historic National Theatre, to Baltimore’s Mechanic Theatre and Pier Six Concert Pavilion, then to New York, as a representative of touring Broadway hits. CPR is the beneficiary of Wayne’s decision to trade Gotham’s tensions and icy winters for SoCal’s freeways, pollution, and earthquakes. Not on his resume: standing in for Ron Howard at Oscar rehearsals.
wayne@creativepr.org
Jazz Beitler loves Fine Art and trash TV. He holds more degrees than busted radiator. As a member of the first graduating class of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, he quickly exhausted all available courses, and pursued advanced independent studies with his professors. His tech and entertainment chops have already produced a near brush with The Big Time, but, luckily for us, he escaped with his tax bracket intact. From phones to Photoshop, he’s our newest ace.
Max our senior 4-legged staff member, is a Lhasa Apso /Terrier hybrid, about the same size as his name, with a fudge nose, hypnotic, humanoid, amber eyes, a flouncy pom-pom of caramel hair and an easy, sociable attitude which particularly endears him to everyone. As soon as he passes his housebreaking final, he’ll be taking calls.
Molly is the newest addition to the Creative PR team. Part Sharpie, part Lab, and part unknown, she brings her puppy energy and enthusiasm to her work which so far is limited to wrestling with Maxie, devouring chewies and taking naps.
