J a n i c e   O d e l l

Jan Odell has proven skills for translating intensely complex products, services and methodologies into communications instruments. She finds what is essential and meaningful about these subjects for industry, consumer, government and academic audiences. With more than twenty-three years of professional success in all phasesof public relations, her industry experience includes technology, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and education. At the top-three global public relations firm of Porter Novelli, Odell was an award-winning vice president managing three, six-person teams. She was officially cited as expert in client relations and results-oriented team management. Odell carries forward the Ford Odell Group's seventeen-year tradition of service to companies throughout the U.S. Her numerous media placements include NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal.


Areas of Experience

Actuarial Predictive Modeling Software
Application Services
Cable Systems
Data Mining
Database Programming
Data Warehousing
Electric Automobiles
Electronic Medical Record
Emissions Testing
Fuel Cells
Hospital Data Repositories
Laboratory Reporting
Miniature Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Physician Billing Systems
Physician Performance Data
Speech Recognition
Unstructured Search
Web Commerce
Web Encryption
"Web Services"
Wireless Technology

B i l l   F o r d

Bill Ford is a former major market broadcast executive, news anchor and radio producer who brings the market know-how of a communications career spanning three decades. His achievements in major markets like New York, Seattle, Portland and Detroit have received wide industry recognition. He has raised station market ratings within short time periods, using seasoned expertise in management and promotion. Ford has a personal interest in all electronic media, with its morphing, evolving, merging dynamic. He follows the rapidly growing Internet presence of old and new media outlets very closely. Ford is a multi-media designer and Web specialist who keeps constant watch over new trends. An early member of the HTML Writers Guild, he has been designing and building Web sites since 1994. As The Ford Odell Group co-founder, Ford helps technology clients use the Internet to achieve success. Ford recently published a novel, and he has won numerous awards as writer, producer and voice talent.