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Jonelle Birney Sullivan

Jonelle Birney Sullivan
Jonelle Birney Sullivan brings more than 30 years of communications experience to Environics. She spent 18 years in Washington, DC, where she worked for sports marketing firm ProServ and Ogilvy Public Relations. She was the sixth person in Fleishman Hillard’s DC office where she excelled in new business and ran the public relations division of that company with a blend of consumer, technology, nonprofit and association clients. In 1995 she became Vice President of Public Relations at MCI and in 1998 was named CEO of Blanc and Otus, a San Francisco firm specializing in high tech public relations. She opened Environic’s San Francisco office in June. She and her husband, Rick, owned and operated Sullivan Birney Winery and Vineyards in Sonoma, winning numerous awards for their Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Jonelle dotes on her nine-year-old Golden Retriever, Corky.