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Merilee A. Kern
President
Kern
Communications' owner and operator Merilee A. Kern has
been marketing multi-industry B2B and B2C products and services
over the Internet since 1994. Throughout her career,
Ms. Kern has strategized, developed, executed and managed
innovative marketing and public relations programs that have
driven visibility, growth and profitability for the many companies
she has served.
Through Kern Communications, a boutique public
relations and marketing communications agency, Ms. Kern avails
the company's industry-diverse clientele with a combination
of entrepreneurial creativity and her breadth of marketing
and PR experience - particularly that within the ever-changing
Internet space.
Prior to founding Kern Communications, Ms. Kern
served a multi-year tenure as Director of Public Relations
and Marketing Communications for e-Health leader eDiets.com's
(NASDAQ:DIET). Prior to this, she held positions as
Marketing Programs Manager, Intranet Video Systems for Concurrent
Computer Corporation (NASDAQ:CCUR), Manager, Marketing Communications
for Ligos Technology (formerly Integrated Data Systems), Interactive
Media Manager at Boca Raton-based WebConnect, a division of
leading high-tech direct marketing firm Worldata, and in 1995
launched and operated her own Internet-based business that
was sold in 1998. Subsequent to establishing Kern Communications,
in early 2006 Ms. Kern founded and currently serves as CEO
for Healthy
Kids' Catalog - a pure-play e-Commerce site offering
a wide range of "Solutions That Foster Healthy Children"
Ms. Kern is also a published author whose fictional
children's title, "Making Healthy Choices - A
Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids," earned a
coveted iParenting Media " Excellent Product" award
in both 2006 and 2007. Her various public relations and marketing-related
articles have been featured by the eMarketing Association
(eMA) among many other distinguished media outlets. In addition,
Ms. Kern is a highly regarded expert source within the media,
contributing expert perspective and commentary such as that
for a case
study published on StartupJounal.com, the Wall Street
Journal's Center for Entrepreneurs.
In
January 2007 Ms. Kern was named a Finalist in the 3rd annual
Stevie Awards for Women in Business, an international competition
recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives,
business owners, and the companies they run, which are produced
by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards
and hailed by the New York Post as “the business world’s own
Oscars.”
Ms. Kern holds a Master of Business Administration
degree with a marketing specialty and a Bachelor of Science
degree, both earned from Nova Southeastern University in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. She also received "Marketing
on the Internet" certification from the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth. Ms. Kern is currently a member in
good standing with the National Association of Professional
and Executive Women (NAPEW), and the Downtown Women's Club
(DWC).
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