Terresa Christenson Joins Doremus San Francisco

June 18, 2005 -- Doremus, the communications company that understands the business of business, has hired Terresa Christenson, 37, as Director, Business Development for its San Francisco office.

Christenson is a 15-year veteran in business development and overseeing global, integrated campaigns. Her most recent position was Senior Vice President, General Manager, Western Region US, Managing Director, Asia Pacific for Brodeur, San Francisco, where she led the Phoenix and San Francisco offices, along with 13 agencies across the Asia Pacific region.

Terresa oversaw many of the agencies’ client relationships including Avnet, LSI Logic, Cypress, Memorex and eFunds, among others, and was responsible for development of new accounts.

Christenson also worked at Brodeur, Hong Kong as Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Asia Pacific where she was charged with building the agency’s Asia Pacific network and overseeing new business development.

Christenson has held management positions at Brodeur Worldwide, Washington, DC (overseeing global strategies for clients: Philips Electronics, Corning, IBM, Acerna, Symbol Technologies, Novell and Avnet among others), and Brodeur Worldwide, Amsterdam. Prior to this she was Vice President/Director and Senior Consultant at Porter Novelli International in Brussels, and has extensive experience in marketing and communications with financial, technology, consumer and services companies in Europe, Asia, Japan and the U.S.

Christenson holds a BS from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. She has completed masters business courses at Harvard and also attended the Ecole Superiere du Commerce in Rouen, France.

Garrett Lawrence, Managing Director of Doremus San Francisco, said, “Terresa’s extensive background building and managing comprehensive communications and brand strategies for predominantly tech-driven companies makes her the perfect addition to the Doremus team. She will help us drive integrated solutions and holistic thinking for clients to compete in the current business environment. Her background is an uncanny reflection of our commitment to the higher level of thinking and leadership Doremus restlessly strives to offer its clients.”

About Doremus
Doremus is composed of a unique group of people from the most highly regarded creative and strategic communications companies with one common goal: to bring a new level of thinking and execution to a category that is often orphaned in the general agency community. Doremus is committed to understanding complex, considered decisions and multiple target audiences, and to identifying the best communications channels to magnify the budgets at all levels. Over 100 years old, with offices in the key business centers of the world, Doremus is constantly evolving to meet the marketing communications needs of business.

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