Thompson & Co. Promotes Bri Kelly to Vice President
Thompson & Co.
Thompson & Co. (T&C) Public Relations promoted Bri Kelly to Vice President, adding her to an executive team responsible for leading the development of the agency and its integrated services.
In her new role, Kelly manages agency clients and builds on national media outreach opportunities while working seamlessly with T&C’s sister agency Blueprint Alaska, providing project management on integrated communication campaigns and strategic communications work for resource clients, such as Donlin Gold.
Kelly has provided strategic communications counsel to clients in Alaska’s travel and leisure industries for more than twelve years. Since she joined T&C, Kelly modernized the press credential and communication process for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and led media relations for the race for more than seven years. She’s also assisted journalists on behalf of the Alaska Travel Industry Association and coordinated national broadcast productions. Behind the scenes, she’s a crisis communications responder, often called upon to help clients navigate through some of their toughest times.
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“Bri has earned this opportunity and it has been one of my greatest pleasures to watch her advance in this profession,” says T&C President and CEO Jennifer Thompson. “She has the experience and the wherewithal to achieve great things, and the entire agency will continue to support her in this new role. It’s meaningful to me that young women can advance in their career, growing both personally and professionally while raising a family and holding executive positions.”
Kelly is a former board member of Great Land Trust, a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and an experienced and certified crisis communicator, having completed the PRSA Crisis Communications certificate program. She has been recognized by the PRSA Alaska Chapter with more than a dozen Aurora Awards for her work and expertise in media relations, event planning, integrated communications, and more.
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