Experience & a Track Record of Success.

Over the course of her career, Jody LoMenzo has represented Fortune companies in crisis and celebration, launched start-ups and counseled non-profits. She founded Point of View to offer her clients senior counsel on communications issues that affect most companies and organizations in today’s ever-changing global economy including: reputation management, brand integrity, media exposure, crisis management, employee communications and community relations. She regularly deals with the national media and is adept at managing her clients’ needs.

Jody has conducted intense interview simulations to prepare spokespersons for appearances on 20/20, The Today Show and Good Morning America.

Most recently, she served as the Richmond office director for the international public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. Prior to that, she was a consultant to Wachovia Securities during their merger with A.G. Edwards. She was director of investor relations and public relations at Insmed, a bio-pharmaceutical company, during a difficult patent lawsuit and restructuring. With prior experience with bio-pharma clients in launching new drugs, she was well versed in FDA protocols and marketing restrictions.

She was hired as a contractor by Capital One to help add a new dimension to the internal web site --researching and writing employee profiles to integrate new employees as the company expanded into the banking sector.

Previously, she had served as marketing and PR director for Bon Secours Richmond Health System, handling numerous crises and issues that confront healthcare providers. She also branded the health system under the Bon Secours umbrella brand and helped brand awareness rise more than 25% in the first six months. As communications director for White Oak Semiconductor, now Qimonda, she implemented their crisis communications plan and supported the company as it grew from a core staff of 20 to more than 1500 employees.

As director of strategic communications for Martin Public Relations, a division of the Martin Agency, Jody was the public relations leader for her clients including Christian Children’s Fund, HCA, Amgen and Health-Tex, Motorola and Amtrak.

A skilled media trainer, Jody has coached a wide-variety of clients including CEOs, scientists, financial advisors, doctors and two Miss Americas to help them better understand how to communicate with reporters and editors. She was requested by Hill and Knowlton/NY and top PR firms to work with sensitive media issues.

During her decade-plus career as a journalist, Jody worked as a producer, reporter and writer for a Midwestern PBS network, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Nightwatch and WABC-TV. As special projects producer at WABC-TV, she covered presidential conventions and inaugurals, in addition to history-making events including the Challenger explosion. She received an Emmy nomination for her planning and production of the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty for ABC’s owned and operated stations. A strong public speaker, she also taught journalism at the University of Richmond as an adjunct professor.