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Christine Simeone joined Lois Paul & Partners (LP&P) in 1994 and brings 18 years of high-technology public relations and marketing experience to her clients. As the Telecommunications and Networking Practice leader, Christine has led corporate repositioning initiatives, business press and competitive response programs, and company and product introductions for established and emerging companies. Christine advises on packaging information to maximize its appeal to a wide range of audiences, including general business media, industry analysts, and technology trade press and influencers, including bloggers. Christine counsels on communications related to mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, and global PR program implementation, and partners with Lois Paul to media train executive spokespeople. Further to her networking and telecommunications expertise, Christine’s has worked with numerous security companies, and offers experience in enterprise software, search and vertical markets, including manufacturing, education and healthcare.Most recently, Christine served as the LP&P lead for the Nortel account in North America. In this role, she led teams across Nortel’s businesses and offered industry perspective and counsel to the technology PR, corporate communications, and industry analyst relations teams. Christine’s guidance helped shift the perception of Nortel from a troubled company to one on the verge of a turnaround.Christine leads teams for clients that include Arbor Networks, Level 3, Mocana, Polycom, and Veracode, and has developed programs for companies such as PTC, Endeca, Waveset Technologies, Navisite, NetSec, Sylantro, Mazu Networks, OnFiber Communications and Shiva Corporation. In 2004, Christine was the recipient of the John D. Graham Award for Excellence, which is awarded based on selection by her peers at LP&P and Fleishman Hillard for her personal standard of excellence.Prior to joining LP&P, Christine was marketing communications manager at Easel Corporation, an application development tools company, with responsibility for lead generation, public relations, advertising, events, and collateral. This role also encompassed a corporate rebranding and renaming effort.Christine holds a B.A. in Communications and English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has completed postgraduate work in investor relations and public relations at Simmons College, Boston. | 