Susan Butenhoff
President, CEO

Susan Butenhoff has 25 years of public relations experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following an eight-year tenure at Ketchum Communications, Susan founded Access Communications in 1991. Twenty years later, she runs a highly successful agency with 100 employees and offices in San Francisco and New York. Susan has assisted major national companies as they have navigated challenging corporate reputation issues; these have ranged from auto companies dealing with sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) to consumer products companies with serious product liability issues. She has worked with c-level executives with such leading companies as Acura, Apple, Google, YouTube, Sun Microsystems, The Clorox Company, Horizon Organic and SEGA of America.

Susan has extensive experience working with national and local print and broadcast media. In addition, Susan leads a proprietary media training program, OnMessage™, and in this capacity has trained celebrities, public officials and corporate executives including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scott McNealy and Scott Cook. Susan currently provides strategic communications counsel to senior executives at Intuit, Polycom, Safeway, Taleo and others.

Matt Afflixio
Senior Vice President

Matt leads client engagements for Trend Micro and Intuit Small Business (including QuickBooks, Accounting Professionals Division, Employee Management Solutions, Intuit Healthcare, and Intuit Developer Platform), which he has managed since 2002. He also provides senior counsel to a range of other agency clients including. Matt has expertise in strategic planning, corporate branding, executive visibility, and crisis communications and has a particular passion and proven expertise in special events, having stage multiple large scale more than 25 years of agency experience, over half of it gained at Access. Known to many as “the hardest working man in the PR business,” he has orchestrated such major industry events as the UN 50 Celebration in San Francisco and New York, The Grammys, City of Hope Benefits and The U.S. Open, and has managed numerous agency relationships including shutterfly.com and RestaurantPro.

Jennifer Sims Fellner
Senior Vice President

Jennifer has more than 20 years of public relations experience, ranging from consumer products and technology to business-to-business companies. She heads the agency’s Corporate Group, which includes executive visibility and thought leadership practices, and currently manages the Intuit Corporate, LeapFrog, LUNA and Polycom accounts. Over the past ten years under her management, the Intuit team has placed Intuit and its CEOs on covers and in positive profiles in such major publications as Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal.

Now in her 19th year at Access, Jennifer has during her tenure helped win and lead such flagship accounts as Apple Computer, Horizon Organic, Sega, Toysrus.com and Revo. Jennifer is also a frequent speaker on corporate communications at various industry events, and recently was a guest lecturer at The University of California, Berkeley. Early in her career, she worked in the White House Press Office.

Tuesday Uhland
Senior Vice President

Tuesday is a versatile PR practitioner with expertise in corporate communications, investor relations and gaming. She leads multiple client engagements including PayPal (which she has headed for the duration of the company’s 5 year relationship with Access) and Beefeater/Plymouth; Tuesday also heads the firm’s media relations practice and manages large scale bi-coastal media strategies for the agency.

Tuesday came to Access after a stint with agency client, 3DO, where she was the fourth employee. She has worked extensively with public companies including Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Interactive, Excite@Home, Inktomi, Turner Broadcasting Systems and SEGA helping to develop the right corporate initiatives including material announcements and quarterly earnings. She has also worked with venture funds, including Elevation Partners, for whom she helped message and announce the first acquisition under their $2.9 billion fund.

Michael B. Young
Senior Vice President

Michael is an accomplished communications practitioner with extensive experience helping market-leading companies articulate vision, engage stakeholders and lead markets through high-impact public relations. Michael leads the firm’s technology and business-to-business practice group. He has worked on corporate communications, thought leadership, product PR programs for a broad range of companies in enterprise software, network infrastructure, social media, security, storage, mobile devices and software.

Michael co-leads the agency’s social media and measurement practice and was a principal architect of the Access Blog Influence Engine, a software algorithm that measures blogger influence. He is the developer of the agency’s proprietary Media Measurement Matrix program which tracks PR program results and connects them to business impact.

Prior to joining Access, Michael was Managing Partner of Agency Analytics, LLC, a consulting group he co-founded focused on helping clients and agencies maximize the return on PR investment. Previously, Michael served as Senior Vice President and Technology Practice Leader at Porter Novelli, Chicago, as well as Vice President in the Corporate Practice at Ketchum. Michael started his PR career at high tech PR boutique Tech Image, Ltd.

Cori Barrett
Senior Vice President

From managing high-profile media events with professional athletes and hip hop moguls to crafting and executing strategic promotional campaigns aimed right at the chain-linked wallets of the Gen X, Y and Z set, Cori Barrett is fluent in the language of “consumer media.” She heads key accounts for the agency including Toshiba (laptops and TVs) and 2K Games and Sports. A 13-year veteran of consumer PR, Cori has masterminded irreverent and aggressive plans for taking the competition head on, focusing on the strong cultural tie-ins between pro sports, hip hop and video games. She is an expert in strategic planning, messaging, product launches, college age marketing, special events and media relations.

Brian T. Regan
Senior Vice President, General Manager New York

In addition to serving as General Manager of the firm’s New York office, Brian leads client engagements including CA Technologies, Neustar, Intuit Financial Services, Digg, and Silver Oak. He also co-manages the agency’s social media practice. Previously he served as Senior Vice President of the CMO Council, overseeing strategy and programs and international business. He has executed a broad range of marketing communications and thought leadership programs for companies including Symantec, Palm, Sybase, Nokia, Cognos, and CMP Technology, across a broad range of functions and disciplines such as customer analytics, SMB Marketing, customer affinity, product marketing management, sales and marketing alignment, corporate governance and compliance and corporate decision-making and business intelligence.

Brian began his career in entertainment publicity with Rogers & Cowan and has also worked with Hill & Knowlton (twice.) On the client side, he served for three years as vice president of corporate communications with Virgin Entertainment Group and helped launch one of the first hosted applications and outsourced services companies.

Brian has spoken at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, at The Mobile Marketing Association Summit in New York City and The PR News Media Relations Summit in Washington DC, among other venues.

Lindsay Scalisi
Senior Vice President

Lindsay is a versatile communications counselor, providing senior level executive visibility, thought leadership, program management and marketing communications support to key Access clients including PayPal and Safeway. She specializes in helping shape and develop product and company launches and brand positioning campaigns. In the twelve years she has been with Access Communications, Lindsay has built a diverse portfolio of account experience including enterprise software, consumer technology, small business communications and social media engagement, working for companies ranging from Intuit and Shopping.com to Siebel Systems, Epiphany and SGI.

Danielle Cantrell
Vice President

Danielle brings over twelve years of public relations experience working with companies in the consumer technology, food, toy and fashion industries. She heads the agency’s retail and food brand practices and currently helps manage the Safeway, LeapFrog, Fresh Express, TwitchTV and California Closets accounts. She drives executive visibility, product launch strategy and messaging, as well as manages corporate social responsibility programs. She also supported Sprint’s Palm Pre launch and their Now Network campaign.

For over two years, she led the Google account working onsite at their Mountain View offices and spearheading PR efforts for Google’s advertising programs. Danielle has also immersed herself in becoming Access’ clean tech expert in working with clients including Ultra Motor – an electric bike company – and Solyndra – a solar power start-up. Before that, Danielle was a member of the Intuit account team handling corporate communications, small business strategy and word of mouth marketing.

Danielle also runs the analytics and research practices at Access, innovating new proprietary measurement techniques to market back results to clients.

David Conner
Vice President

As a lead in the technology practice, David’s responsibilities include strategic management of technology accounts from media and community relations to thought leadership platforms, and developing social media platforms for B to B companies like Brocade, Trend Micro and Neustar. David’s technology client background spans the enterprise stack from hardware (Juniper Networks) and data platforms (Neustar) to security (Trend Micro) and payments (FICO, PayPal).

David regularly counsels clients and conducted in-house training programs on integrating Twitter, blogs, and facebook into multi-dimensional PR programs.

David’s technology emphasis lies in enterprise, development tools, and mobile technologies. Prior to joining Access, David worked at another San Francisco high technology public relations firm serving enterprise and consumer technology clients such as Oracle and VeriSign. Before pursuing public relations, David worked on the news staff of The Sacramento Bee, has contributed to publications such as The Sacramento News and Review and wrote about local music for MTV.com.

David holds a Bachelors degree in English and Communications from the University of California, Davis.

Bob Glantz
Vice President

Bob has thirty plus years of experience in the news and public relations business, including nearly 20 years with Access Communications. An award-winning writer, he is the principal architect and managing editor of the agency’s NEWS FLASH news service. When he is not managing the publication of client newsletters or conducting new business research, he enjoys growing organic heirloom tomatoes in his backyard. He does his best thinking on his elliptical trainer. With the music thumping and the endorphins flowing, the cobwebs vanish and the narrative structure falls into place. He is inspired by rule breakers. From Bill Gates to Tom Waits, he stands in awe of people who look at the world and say, “No, it doesn’t have to be this way. Let me show you a different approach.” His most memorable professional moments include receiving an award from and shaking the hand of Dr. Edward L. Bernays, the “father public relations” whose clients included Thomas Edison and Enrico Caruso. He also takes pride in his San Francisco bona fides of having placed not one but two items in the legendary Herb Caen’s column. .