Ann Barlow
As a partner and president of Peppercom's west coast operations, at Peppercom Strategic Communications, Ann is responsible for helping to set agency direction, grow the business, create new offerings, service clients and manage teams. In 2005 she led the founding of GreenPepper, Peppercom's environmental sustainability offering.
Over the past two decades, Ann Barlow has counseled executives at companies such as GE, Tyco, TIAA-CREF, Panasonic and C.R. Bard, leading hundreds of branding and re-branding, corporate reputation and issues-related campaigns targeted to consumers, business and government. In 2005, she moved to San Francisco to help the agency grow its west coast business. Before joining Peppercom six years ago, she led the New York office of Interpublic Group-owned Mindstorm Communications. There, she oversaw operations, client services for companies such as Sony and Cablevision, as well as new business development and a staff of 50.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, Ann began her career in New York with Waring & LaRosa public relations and advertising, where she worked on Prince Racquets, Perrier and Sony. After moving to Toronto in 1985, she joined GCI, where she developed and executed campaigns and crisis management for clients such as Mattel, Ayerst, Procter & Gamble and the Jamaican government.
Upon returning to the New York area, she joined Berry Associates, working in investor relations, internal communications, and crisis management for such companies as The CIT Group, Philips Lighting and C.R. Bard. Later, she served as public relations and marketing director for an $800 million health system, where she managed public, community, internal and crisis communications. In 1994, Ann went to work for Spector & Associates, where she managed campaigns for the federal government, the Bank of New York, AT&T and the International Olympic Committee sponsorship organization. She left to form her own consulting practice in 1996 specializing in health care delivery and reimbursement communications. She provided counsel to a health system facing union strikes, a Medicare HMO charged with fraud and a consortium of health insurance companies confronting protests over coverage.
Ann lives in San Ramon, California, with her husband and two children.
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