Douglas Jeffe | Christine Lewis | Bob Bush |
Larry Fisher | Lawrence Lockman | Laura Mecoy
IMN applies a best teams approach, drawing from a network of highly skilled individuals to best meet client needs. Each team works as a cohesive unit--combining a strong strategic focus with the right combination of experience, skills and specialized knowledge for the assignment at hand.
While members of the network head their own independent practices for the most part, they have worked with IMN principals for many years. IMN is proud of the professionals who comprise our network. Each brings to the table unique strengths and important insights.
IMN also maintains strategic partnerships with public affairs, communications, research and lobbying firms in Washington, New York and Sacramento.
Douglas Jeffe
Doug is a veteran communications and public affairs strategist who excels in developing and managing winning campaigns. An IMN principal, he specializes in tough issues--be it protecting a client's reputation in a crisis, winning approval for needed legislative and/or regulatory action on a key environmental issue, or defeating a ballot initiative that threatens a client's business. FormallyFormerly,, Doug was Executive Vice President of Braun Ketchum Public Relations, where he headed the firm's public affairs practice for twenty years. He has worked extensively with the petroleum, health care, financial services, insurance, transportation and real estate industries. With extensive experience as a pollster, press secretary, campaign manager and legislative advocate, Doug provides IMN clients with a rare blend of political acumen and communications expertise.
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Christine Lewis
Chris is IMN's keeper of the message. As a principal of IMN, she is responsible for message development, creative services, crisis planning and communications training programs. Whether it is a brochure positioning a company's operations, a video explaining an environmental safety issue, a news release responding to a crisis, or a broadcast spot on a ballot proposition, Chris knows how to persuasively and credibly convey messages that advance the client's reputation and policy objectives. Chris was formerly Senior Vice President and Creative Director for Braun Ketchum Public Relations. Her clients have included Mobil Oil, Great Western Financial, British Petroleum, Transamerica Life, Genentech, the California State Department of Commerce, Granite Construction, Tenet Healthcare, and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) at Harbor - UCLA Medical Center.
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Bob Bush
Bob is a general partner of Fowler & Bush, a lobbying firm registered and specializing in issues before the County of Los Angeles. He has been a lobbyist, public relations director and governmental affairs consultant since 1979, representing a variety of real estate, cable television, architectural, building contractor and development interest, among others. Bob is a founding director and past chair of the executive committe of the Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County, and is a Board of Supervisors-appointed director of the Capital Asset Leasing Corporation. Bob was senior deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn during the 1970s. Previously, he was a journalist for such organizations as the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, United Press International, Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and the Los Angeles Times.
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Larry Fisher
Larry Fisher is a consummate public relations professional who provides senior level counsel to IMN clients in the areas of corporate communications, investor relations, governmental relations and public affairs. Most recently, he served as Executive Director of Transportation California. For more than 30 years, rising to the helm of Braun & Company and later as Chairman of Braun Ketchum, Los Angeles, Larry provided guidance to some of the country 's most respected and influential corporations and organizations, including Transamerica Occidental Life, the Santa Anita Companies, GTE, the Association of California Life Insurance Companies and Great Western Financial. Prior to joining Braun & Company, he was a legislative aide to California's Speaker of the Assembly and executive director of the California Democratic Party.
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Lawrence Lockman
Lawrence is a strategic communications expert with experience in large-scale social marketing, institutional branding and industry positioning campaigns. His work encompasses media relations, issues management and new media, in fields as diverse as higher education and the utility, broadcasting and alcohol beverage industries. Lawrence led public outreach, marketing and communications for UCLA, where he initiated a series of nationally-recognized branding and media initiatives that put UCLA at the forefront of communications in higher education. As vice president of The Rogers Group, he co-led the team that won the largest account in the history of the firm - a three-year, $36 million social marketing campaign for the Rob Reiner-led First Five of California. Lawrence also was vice president of programs for The Century Council, an independently operating anti-alcohol-abuse organization funded by the U.S. distilled spirits industry, and served as a senior communications consultant to the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, where he developed political and regulatory outreach strategies that prevented sensitive water and environmental quality issues from becoming sensationalist media stories and positioned management for successful community dialogue around sensitive safety issues. Lawrence started his career with Braun Ketchum Public Relations, where he worked on successful, non-partisan ballot initiatives, and various media and community relations initiatives for clients including NBC, the National Federation of Independent Business and Disney.
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Laura Mecoy
An award-winning former journalist with an insider’s understanding of the media, Laura offers clients strategic counsel on how to get reporters’ attention, communicate in a crisis, reach out to the community and explain complex subjects. She knows how reporters think, how they’re likely to cover a story and what questions they’re likely to ask. With more than 20 years of experience, she’s worked in Sacramento, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. for The Sacramento Bee and McClatchy Newspapers, covering public policy, politics and breaking news. Most recently, she led The Bee’s coverage of Southern California as its Los Angeles Bureau Chief and reported on a range of topics, including health care, transportation, development and the environment. Previously, Laura wrote extensively about the California Legislature, the governor and statewide politics as a member of The Bee’s Capitol Bureau, the largest in the state. She also covered Congress, the Supreme Court and the Bush and Clinton administrations as a member of McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington Bureau.
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Revised: November 2011
