Biography : John Marsh

With nearly 25 years' experience as a communications professional, John Marsh has a diverse background in corporate communications, agency and corporate public relations, and both financial and business writing and editing. During his career, he has garnered in-depth experience across the spectrum of business communications, including: writing and editing; public, media and investor relations; and corporate and marketing communications.

Marsh is an editorial specialist. He has written and/or edited nearly every conceivable type of business communications piece and has won local and national awards for his writing. He has deep experience in the financial services industry, having worked as a banking journalist, Federal Reserve editor and PR vice president for a national bank. He also has significant experience in the technology and broader corporate communications fields.

As president of Marsh Communications, he is responsible for setting the firm's strategic direction and managing its day-to-day business activities. He also provides strategic counsel to all clients, develops and leads client engagements in corporate communications, investor relations and public relations, and heads up the firm's MarshComm Editorial Services subsidiary.

Prior to forming Marsh Communications, Marsh served as Director of Corporate Communications for U.S. Micro Corporation, one of North America's premier end-of-life corporate IT asset disposition companies. He set strategy for and directed the execution of the corporation's overall marketing, public relations and marketing communications activities. During his tenure, he created U.S. Micro's corporate identity program, developed the company's trade show marketing program, directed development of its first e-commerce Web site and wrote all of the company's marketing communications and business-development materials.

Before joining U.S. Micro, Marsh served as Editorial Director and senior account supervisor for the Atlanta office of Manning, Selvage & Lee (MS&L), one of the city's top-5 public relations firms. He supervised the firm's editorial output, taught writing and editing classes and directed the PR programs of national corporate financial and technology accounts. He also served as a Group Director and Editorial Director of The William Mills Agency, a national financial services technology PR firm.

For four years prior to entering the agency PR business, Marsh was a Vice President and Media Relations Manager for Wachovia Corporation, where he managed the PR programs for the company's credit card division, its Georgia consumer bank, and the capital markets and treasury services divisions. He also has served as an editor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and as managing editor of Southern Banker magazine.

Marsh is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, with a degree in magazine journalism. He also earned a Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Certificate of German as a Foreign Language) from the Goethe-Institut Atlanta.

He is a former board member of Special Olympics Georgia and served on the public relations committee of the Georgia Technology Forum, as well as several other civic organizations. An avid cyclist and traveler, Marsh also coaches Little League baseball.

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