Our team is the touchstone of ADPRGlobal. Each member was carefully selected to complement the composition of a global marketing team.
Annie McLhinney-Cochran
has 30 years communications experience in international marketing,
sales and public relations, internal and external communications,
market development, corporate promotions, crisis communications,
and community, and employee relations. Cochran has operated her full
service public relations business since 1991 and specializes in global
marketing and product exposure through various marketing techniques.
Her press material has appeared in major consumer and trade magazines
and major newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Cochran has
created national and international public relations campaigns for the
Carlsbad Convention & Visitors Bureau (1990-1995 producing over 1
million in publicity on flower fields), Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort, Air
New Zealand, Grand Pacific Palisades Resort & Hotel, Las Rocas
Hotel & Suites (Rosarito, Mexico), Neimans Restaurant, New Port
Beach Hotel (Puerto Nuevo, Mexico), Carlsbad Village Faire, Oceanside
Department of Harbor & Beaches, Oceanside Harbor Merchants &
Restaurants, Oceanside Visitor Information Center, San Diego North
Convention & Visitors Bureau, San Diego Business Journal, Taylor
Woodrow Homes, Zosa Gardens B & B and various travel and leisure
clients throughout the Pacific Rim.
Prior to opening Cochran
Communications, Cochran was Account Executive with Hastings &
Craig, providing professional marketing services for various travel
accounts such as: State of California Office of Tourism; Alaska
Airlines; Seaport Village; Holland America Cruise Lines; Lufthansa
German Airlines; Carlsbad Convention & Visitors Bureau; Mount Hutt
Ski Resort (New Zealand) and British Aerospace.
Cochran served
six years as Air New Zealand’s public affairs officer for the company’s
North American/European headquarters. An official media spokesperson
and special events coordinator for Air New Zealand, she was also
associate editor and frequent contributor/photographer for various
company publications. In addition, Cochran was responsible for major
food and beverage campaigns for New Zealand products. She designed and
implemented destination publicity programs for New Zealand, Australia,
Tahiti, Fiji, Cook Islands, Dallas/Fort Worth, Vancouver, and Germany,
producing over 1.5 million dollars in media exposure, and millions in
sales, annually, on a budget of $200,000.
Literally growing up
on stacks of newspapers, magazines and books, gave Cochran an early
education and appreciation of communications and sales. Cochran was
raised in Havre de Grace, Maryland and was the third generation to work
in her family's newspaper distribution business, McLhinney's News
Depot.
Cochran is the travel and dining editor for NC Magazine,
a lifestyle magazine based in affluent San Diego North, and has a Twitter following for her "Aunt Chocolate Twits". She is an avid travel photographer, loves to travel with her husband, three children, family, and friends, and believes in travel as a way of life.
Contact: Annie@adprglobal.com
Debra
Wilson came to work in Mexico 20 years ago when she opened Las
Rocas Hotel & Suites. Taking advantage of it's proximity to San
Diego and capitalizing on the wedding market, she successfully maneuvered
the business into a major Baja California wedding venue. Wilson moved to
New Port Beach Hotel shortly after the hotel went under new management
and spent the next 12 years overseeing international advertising,
marketing, public relations, promotions and sales programs for the
147-room family oriented hotel. Her many responsibilities included organizing group
visits including weddings, bus tours, church retreats and international
dog shows along with website maintenance and eMarketing. Her savvy and
relaxed business style has allowed her to be one of the few female
U.S. citizens carving a niche in the Baja business world.
Born
in Florida to a homemaker and a sales manager, Debra’s childhood years were
full of travel and cultural changes as she moved from Florida,
to Washington, and on to Oregon, Central California, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois, Connecticut, Iowa and Southern California, to finally settle in Baja California. Wilson attributes this advantage in her early years and her
outgoing personality, as giving her the flexibility required for a
business woman to successfully maneuver her way through the Mexican
tourism industry.
Debra is careful to be frank, while paying
close attention to what is achievable, "I never lie to a customer, or
make promises I'm not absolutely certain I can deliver on, just to make the sale." Her philosophy in business is one of customer satisfaction.
“As long as the client leaves feeling they have received excellent
service and a good value for their dollar or peso, my job has been
executed,” states Wilson.
Recently married to Michael, Wilson now serves as step-mom to six mostly grown children. While awaiting the upcoming nuptials of their eldest daughter, who lives in New York, they share their Mexican beach house with an assortment of adopted dogs and cats.
Contact: Debra@adprglobal.com
Susan Calderone is developing the touch points to help grow our client base. With extensive experience working with both small, and large corporations, for profit and non profits, creating winning business strategies for success, Susan has key advice to offer our clients.
Calderone is originally from the east coast where she studied journalism and public affairs. She started her career, which spans more than 20 years, in the heartbeat of the media world, with a stint at a major photography studio in Manhattan, New York. "The culture shock didn’t scare me; so I walked to the beat of my own dream, and drove to the coastline of California to study broadcasting and screenwriting." says Calderone.
It was during her ten years serving in public affairs and marketing for the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce where she developed the organization's communications, special events, publications, videos, newsletters, press conferences, and more. She is a graduate from Institutes for Organizational Management, a six year, continued study for chamber executives.
Her greatest accomplishment at the chamber was spearheading the Chamber’s public support campaign that led to bringing Legoland’s first U.S Site in California. She is known for her fundraising and relationship building ability which landed her a job working for the Boys and Girls Club of America in Carlsbad, Ca. While there she raised record totals for golf and dinner dance fundraisers, and created the club’s first newsletter entitled “A Kid’s Life,” which won national attention from organizational leaders.
Whether serving clients, boards, members, commissions, or the public, Susan is creative and excited to share her expertise.
Calderone currently lives in Rancho Penasquitos with her son Miles who has rounded the corner to 7 years old. She is active in North County and has developed extensive business contacts along the I-15 corridor. Previously she also served as director of business development for the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce.
She is an aspiring screen writer, and has studied at UCLA hoping to some day draw on her memories of being raised in a big Italian family, where the truth really was stranger and funnier than fiction. On her bucket list she hopes to learn to surf with her son, and continue traveling whenever possible.
Contact: Susan@adprglobal.com
Niki has been a long-time team member of ADPRGlobal. With almost 15 years communications experience, she has worked on public relations projects with the San Diego Travel Group, Newport Beach Hotel (Puerto Nuevo, Mexico), North San Diego County Magazine, Viva La Travel, the Carlsbad ConVis Flower Fields in Carlsbad, and the Oceanside Department of Harbor & Beaches.
In addition, Niki is a very talented journalist with experience working as a staff writer for a regional lifestyle publication. A devoted humanist, Niki’s personality and attention to detail ensures flawless execution of your public relations event or campaign.
Her strong communication and project management skills enhance our professional structure and adds leadership to our marketing team. Niki brings exceptional PR, travel, and entertainment expertise to our global client base. Currently living in Temecula California's Wine Country, Niki is working on her BSN, to enable her to spread her knowledge in to the exciting, and ever-changing, medical field.
Contact: Niki@adprglobal.com
Mary Smith was born and raised in San Diego, California. She brings a wealth of education and well rounded job experience from her hard work as a high school and technical school student, and positions she has held prior to arrive at ADPR Global. We think young professional women like Mary add to the spirit off the operation.
Raised partly on an Indian Reservation as a child, she learned to appreciate and relate to various cultures from a very young age. Mary is a self motivated young lady who not only keeps our office and projects organized, but also keeps our media lists updated, escorts media familiarizations, produces advertising sales, and has an active role in direct sales for our clients.
To top that off, she is an auto mechanic too!
Contact: Mary@adprglobal.com
Tom Rutkowski is our in-house copy editor, who polishes the input on projects from A to Z. Of course we have style, and Tom can help identify your individual style. All of those studious East Coast Catholic school years finally mean something!
Contact: Tom@adprglobal.com
Jeff’s 25 years of experience creating brand images can help propel your businesses products and services to the next level. His in-depth knowledge of the translation and localization industry will open the door to the global marketplace. Most notably is his stewardship for 10 years of the award-winning, “Guide to Translation and Localization – Communicating with the Global Marketplace.” Jeff helped position the book as the definitive international source for information on translation and localization and can do the same for your company. Contact him today.
Contact: Jeff@adprglobal.com
David Crellen advises us as to how to exploit the Internet medium to its fullest. Crellen says, "The
Internet is a powerful communications medium in the electronic realm, just
as paper is a communications medium in the physical realm."
Reilly Cota is the youngest member of our media team. We lean on Cota for our small business clients who require web-based marketing and development. Self taught, and still attending Palomar High School in Vista, CA. Cota keeps us young and on our toes.
Cota coordinates all the technical, lighting, sound, and production of shows and events. Cota currently has a hand full of happy clients, and is busy designing websites, and coordinating all of their website tracking and SEO.
Born and raised in Tri City, Vista, and Oceanside for 17 years, including two wonderful years living in the Oceanside Harbor, Cota is a self-taught communicator who caught the “bug” after taking a web building class in 9th grade.
Contact: Reilly@adprglobal.com
Patricia Riley, is our "go to gal" for entertainment, and event planning. With her expansive team she can provide everything from laser shows, to mimes, belly dancers, children acting troops, and just about anything entertainment you can dream up. If she doesn't have it in her current line up - she will create a custom-designed show!
Patricia Riley, President of Riley's Productions, has her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts and Children's Theatre. Patricia Riley has been performing in the San Diego area for many years, bringing informed regard to the public for the betterment of deaf, hearing-impaired, and communication-challenged children and their families. Her objective continues to be enhancing wider, facile integration of this sub-culture into the expanding world. Through her star persona, Nugget The Clown, she has touched many deaf children throughout the world.
Patricia's has empowered children of all ages through laughter and education. She regularly trains and arranges for them to perform for community service.
Patricia Riley has had the honor of traveling and performing to audiences of 5 to 5,000 at the following venues: Knott's Berry Farm, San Diego Zoo, Disneyland, Legoland, Sea World, Del Mar Fair, Utah State Fair, Golden Gate Baptist Theological University, New Mexico Gloriette and Pala Casino.
A few of her television appearances include: KSON, Good Morning America, Trinity Broadcasting Network, KUSI, Channel 10, Time Warner Cable and Oceanside Cable.
Annie McLhinney-Cochran
has 30 years communications experience in international marketing,
sales and public relations, internal and external communications,
market development, corporate promotions, crisis communications,
and community, and employee relations. Cochran has operated her full
service public relations business since 1991 and specializes in global
marketing and product exposure through various marketing techniques.
Her press material has appeared in major consumer and trade magazines
and major newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Debra
Wilson came to work in Mexico 20 years ago when she opened Las
Rocas Hotel & Suites. Taking advantage of it's proximity to San
Diego and capitalizing on the wedding market, she successfully maneuvered
the business into a major Baja California wedding venue. Wilson moved to
New Port Beach Hotel shortly after the hotel went under new management
and spent the next 12 years overseeing international advertising,
marketing, public relations, promotions and sales programs for the
147-room family oriented hotel. Her many responsibilities included organizing group
visits including weddings, bus tours, church retreats and international
dog shows along with website maintenance and eMarketing. Her savvy and
relaxed business style has allowed her to be one of the few female
U.S. citizens carving a niche in the Baja business world.
Susan Calderone is developing the touch points to help grow our client base. With extensive experience working with both small, and large corporations, for profit and non profits, creating winning business strategies for success, Susan has key advice to offer our clients.
Mary Smith was born and raised in San Diego, California. She brings a wealth of education and well rounded job experience from her hard work as a high school and technical school student, and positions she has held prior to arrive at ADPR Global. We think young professional women like Mary add to the spirit off the operation.
Jeff’s 25 years of experience creating brand images can help propel your businesses products and services to the next level. His in-depth knowledge of the translation and localization industry will open the door to the global marketplace. Most notably is his stewardship for 10 years of the award-winning, “Guide to Translation and Localization – Communicating with the Global Marketplace.” Jeff helped position the book as the definitive international source for information on translation and localization and can do the same for your company. Contact him today.
Reilly Cota is the youngest member of our media team. We lean on Cota for our small business clients who require web-based marketing and development. Self taught, and still attending Palomar High School in Vista, CA. Cota keeps us young and on our toes.
Patricia Riley, is our "go to gal" for entertainment, and event planning. With her expansive team she can provide everything from laser shows, to mimes, belly dancers, children acting troops, and just about anything entertainment you can dream up. If she doesn't have it in her current line up - she will create a custom-designed show!
