Jody Peake
Portland, OR

I began my career doing technology PR for Tektronix in the early 1980s. It was an exciting time even though the audiences for our messages were tiny and few reporters were covering technology. While I was at Tektronix, I also met the individuals that would later become my partners at Waggener Edstrom, and where OnPR was eventually spun out.

Some of the biggest PR highlights include creating the strategy for SAP’s US media launch and negotiating their first story in the US business press, publicizing the internet’s first live concert for Starwave, negotiating the first prime-time major network coverage about a computer virus, and launching the first wireless data standard with McCaw and other wireless and computing leaders.

I’ve worked with companies such as SAP, Siebel (now Oracle), McCaw Cellular and AT&T Wireless, Corbis, Visio (now Microsoft), Starwave (now Disney), Victoria’sSecret.com, Sequent Computer Systems (now IBM), Alcatel.

What I like best about working at OnPR are the smart, inspiring and enthusiastic people I work with -- both my colleagues and our clients. I also like knowing we’re making a difference for our clients. OnPR is big and senior enough to do the PR “heavy lifting” for our clients when they need it, but we are also nimble and flexible so we can invent new approaches and drive new thinking.