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Lindeman is responsible for the Company's investor relations activities as well as for public relations and for corporate communications, including financial and employee communications. She also oversees Playboy's public affairs programs and the philanthropic efforts and activities of the Playboy Foundation. She is based in Playboy's Chicago headquarters.
Lindeman joined Playboy in 1992 as a vice president. She was instrumental in the successful completion of Playboy's first secondary stock offering in March 1993 and equally successful follow-on offerings in 1999 and 2004, the creation of the Company's first investor relations program, and development of an employee stock purchase program. As a result of her efforts, the Company's profile in the investment community has increased dramatically in terms of both analyst coverage and institutional interest. In addition, she has worked with major business and financial media in profiling the company and its management and was instrumental in the development of a new employee communications program. She was promoted to her current position in 1998.
Before joining Playboy, Lindeman spent six years as manager of communications for Tribune Company, where she was responsible for all financial communications and where she launched that company's first program aimed at individual investors. She also held public relations positions with Burlington Northern Inc., and the public relations firm of Golin Harris Communications. Lindeman began her career as an institutional equity trader, initially at Weeden & Co. and later at Alex Brown & Sons.
Lindeman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts and a Master of Science degree in communications from Boston University. She is a former president and director of the Chicago chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute. | 