InkHouse Principals Meg O’Leary and Beth Monaghan WHERE: DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel 550 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 Tel: 781-890-6767 Fax: 781-890-9097     TIME: 7:30 AM Registration 8:00 AM Presentation     COST: $20.00 Per Person       REGISTER ONLINE

MEG O’LEARY, PRINCIPAL

Meg has nearly 15 years of public relations and communications experience and specializes in using communications to jump-start emerging companies. Over the last decade, Meg has helped to launch companies across a number of market segments, including consumer-to-business and business-to-business e-commerce, consumer electronics, enterprise software and online services and communities.

Prior to starting InkHouse, Meg served as the director of marketing for Charles River Ventures CRVelocity services. In this role, she managed the firm’s communications and consulted to the firm’s portfolio of companies on a range of marketing issues, including company and product launches, messaging, influencer relations and go-to-market strategies. Before joining Charles River Ventures, Meg held various senior communications positions with Novera Software, Mercator Software and Security Dynamics.

Meg began her career at CDB Euro RSCG (now Euro RSCG Magnet), a top-ten international public relations agency, where she was a founding member of the firm’s technology practice. During her tenure at the firm, Meg served as account manager for leading technology companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation, NYNEX and Panasonic Communications & Systems.

Meg received a Bachelors Degree, magna cum laude, from Providence College and a Masters Degree from Clark University. Meg’s work in the field of communications has received numerous industry awards, including an Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America, the public relations industry’s highest honor, as well as Bell Ringer and Bulldog Awards.

BETH MONAGHAN, PRINCIPAL

Beth brings more than a decade of experience working with some of the top consumer and business-facing technology and professional services organizations. She believes that succeeding in public relations requires accountability to two “clients,” the ones who pay you and ones who take your calls – the media.

Before forming InkHouse, Beth was vice president, public relations at The Castle Group where she oversaw flagship accounts including eons, Atlas Venture, Ropes & Gray LLP, The Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University and the Springboard: New England Venture Capital Forum. Prior to Castle, Beth managed marketing communications for storage start-up StorScape and oversaw public relations for Charles River Ventures, one of the nation's leading early-stage venture capital firms. Earlier, as an account supervisor with Schwartz Communications, Beth helped clients manage through the media frenzy of the Internet bubble, including Concord Communications (acquired by Computer Associates), Silknet Software (acquired by Kana) and New Oak Technologies (acquired by Bay Networks).

Beth is a speaker at various conferences and seminars on PR strategies. She is also active in the community, serving on the steering committee for the Massachusetts Governor’s Appointment Project and donating her time to help with public relations for Jane Doe and the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus. Beth earned her degree in public relations from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.