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Our firm was founded in 1987 as Tarkenton &
Addams, Inc. Although we have changed our
name, we still call on entrepreneur and NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton as a consultant to clients as needed. For additional services, such as specialized research, video production and graphics design, we have a network of providers who have earned our trust in their service, quality, and reliability during our seventeen years of operations.
Jeannine Addams
Ms. Addams, president and owner of J. Addams & Partners, Inc., has more than 25 years experience in public relations and marketing communications. In addition to public relations, she has an extensive background in TV and radio production.
Before starting the firm, she was vice-president and group manager of the Business-to-Business unit of Atlanta-based Cohn & Wolfe, a Burson-Marsteller company, where she led the agency’s activities for a number of corporate clients, including architect/ developer John Portman and the Portman Companies, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and Dornier Medical Systems.
Ms. Addams also was vice president with Carl Byoir & Associates, where she held executive-level responsibility for national business accounts including Kodak, Honeywell, The American Bankers' Association and The Road Information Program.
Prior to relocating to Atlanta, she was a television and radio producer at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C.; news bureau director for Georgetown University in Washington and creative services director for Frank N. Magid Associates, the country's largest provider of market research and consulting for the news broadcasting and newspaper publishing industries.
In addition, Ms. Addams served on the public affairs staff of Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh and worked on the campaign press staff of then-U.S. Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr. of Maryland. She is president of the non-profit CURE Childhood Cancer, Inc., which provides support services for children with cancer and their families. For her work with CURE, she was named as one of Atlanta’s Women of Distinction in 2000.
Ms. Addams is a co-author of Unexpected Chaos, and Preventing a Crisis, on fashioning communications strategies that produce results during “normal” periods but also protect an organization when survival may be in doubt. She is a recognized expert in crisis management.
Jeannine has been a guest lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta; she also conducts media training and speech and presentation skills coaching for a number of clients.
She is married to writer Robert Coram (www.robertcoram.com),
who is working on his 12th book. 
Katherine Ventres Canipelli
With 25 years of experience in business development and marketing, Katherine Canipelli is a nationally recognized expert in strategic and tactical marketing, with an emphasis on integrated lead generation program development for business-to-business sales. She is also well known for her expertise in transportation and logistics and the information systems that support them.
Katherine leads our marketing communications support to the logistics services industry.
Her clients have included Pacer Stacktrain in Concord, CA, one of North America's leading intermodal service providers and USCO, in Hamden, CT, one of the country’s largest lead logistics providers. USCO was recently acquired by the Swiss logistics giant Kuehne and Nagel.
Before her association with J. Addams & Partners, Ms. Canipelli was Vice President, Marketing Communications, for Global Logistics Technologies. She directed a broad spectrum of global corporate marketing communications for this start-up supply chain logistics software company, including brand management, public and media relations, Web site strategy (Internet, intranet, and extranet), trade events, advertising, lead generation programs, and telesales. She managed a staff of eight marketing and communications professionals.
Ms. Canipelli was previously general manager, portal marketing, for Atlanta-based iFLEET, and prior to that position was vice president, sales and marketing for Shell Fleet Services in Houston, Texas. She also held a number of leadership positions with GATX Corporation, a diversified financial leasing company based in Chicago, Illinois.
Her background also includes significant marketing planning and product management experience with AT&T and CSX. She holds an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University with concentrations in marketing and accounting and an A.B. in history from Brown University. She is a member of the Council of Logistics Management.
Gail Davidson
Gail Davidson has been involved in communications, specializing in sales and customer service, for 25 years. Her career has been focused in the publishing and food services industries and in community service.
Gail is responsible for the agency's research and database management services. She manages our Nexis-Lexis account, performs Bacon’s searches (for media contact information), and conducts Web searches. She also assists in development of marketing plans both for clients and for J. Addams & Partners.
She worked for the southeast division of Carnation Foods, serving first as key account representative, and later as senior account manager in the company's grocery products division. Her largest account was Kroger, which produced billings of $30 million annually for Carnation. Most recently she served as a director and full service event planner for corporate and private events for a catering company.
She was also head of advertising sales at Buckhead Publishing Company and sold printed business products for Data Management Associates.
Gail has a strong portfolio of volunteer work for community service organizations. She served as a board member of Our Lady of Assumption Catholic School and St. Pius Catholic High School and of the Lion Pride Foundation. She also volunteers for a number of neighborhood associations and athletic organizations, where over the years, she has served as president and committee chair for various different committees, including civic affairs, fund-raising, buildings and grounds committees.
Chet Richards
Dr. Richards joined the agency in 2001, bringing more than 30 years of experience in marketing and military strategy. He specializes in helping organizations use time as a competitive weapon, particularly through the application of "lean" techniques. As he writes in a J. Addams & Partners White Paper, "communications—within the firm and with current and potential customers—is essential to building the mutual trust that forms a key part of business strategy." He shows how, using time-based methods, organizations can shape their environments to increase revenue, market share, and profitability. Chet owns and edits
the web site Modern Business Strategy, which was selected by the Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge as a featured site for leadership and strategy.
The content from that site is now
incorporated into his blog at
http://www.chetrichards.com.
He is also the founder and editor of Defense and the National Interest, http://www.defense-and-society.org, which has twice been named as one of the top defense sites on the Web by the prestigious National Journal.
Although that site is still active, Chet now
covers defense issues on his national
security blog,
http://dni2.wordpress.com.
Beginning his career in the Pentagon, Chet has also worked or consulted for Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy and Air Force, the SHAPE Technical Center, SAIC, CACI, the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
the National Academies of Science, and several other government and non-profit agencies. His op-eds and quotes have appeared in publications ranging from Fast Company to Defense Week to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. His 2001 book, A Swift, Elusive Sword, proposes ways to increase the decision cycle speed of the U.S. Department of Defense to combat the types of terrorist/fourth generation threats we are now facing. It was recently translated into Russian and has been used as a text by the National Defense University and the US Naval Academy. His latest book
for business, Certain to Win, was published in June 2004.
Dr. Richards holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force, where he was the Air Attaché (Reserve) to Saudi Arabia. He maintains an active interest in the Middle East and some fluency in Arabic.
Kristin M. Wohlleben
Ms. Wohlleben has more than a dozen years of experience in strategic communications program development and implementation.
She has been our lead account executive and manager for a number of publicly-traded global corporations.
She is currently responsible for coordinating public relations support for Honda Power Equipment, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of outdoor power equipment.
She writes and develops client communication strategies; manages the writing, design, and production of brochures, ads, direct mail pieces, white papers, newsletters, logos and other collateral materials as well as directs photo shoots, video production, and editing.
Ms. Wohlleben conducts interview and media training for a number of clients. She has coauthored media training and speech presentation skills coaching manuals, and is a co-author of Unexpected Chaos, and Preventing a Crisis.
Kristin is active in local community and charitable affairs. In 1996, she served as an advisor to the election committee for District Attorney of Fulton County. She is an officer and member of the board of directors of CURE Childhood Cancer, Inc., where she currently serves as its general secretary.
Ms. Wohlleben holds degrees in both visual arts and design. Her postgraduate work also focused on copywriting and advertising strategy.
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