Mark McClennan
McClennan combines strategic communications counsel with a relentless drive for excellence to help Schwartz's clients succeed in leveraging public relations to realize their business objectives.
In his more than eleven years at Schwartz, he has led teams in a variety of industries, including financial services, semiconductor manufacturing, consumer technology and gaming. He has worked with companies ranging from venture-funded start-up to large public companies, including CheckFree, Peppercoin, I4 Commerce, AmberWave, PRI Automation, Connected, Imaging Automation, NECX and Trellix.
McClennan's teams have been recognized with more than 35 awards for excellence in public relations, including four Silver Anvils (The PR Industry Oscars) in four years for Marketing Consumer Services and Financial Services for his teams work on behalf of CheckFree, I4 Commerce and Peppercoin. Working with CheckFree, his team helped raise consumer awareness of the benefits to paying bills online to 99 percent, and followed up with a campaigns focused on increasing the number of women who paid their bills online and reducing consumer fears of ID Theft.
He has obtained placements for his clients in a wide variety of business and trade publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and Newsweek He once convinced a CNBC crew to follow the vice president of technology of a small start-up company around COMDEX for an entire day as a Day in the Life feature.
McClennan has a B.A. in public relations/political science from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University. McClennan is president-elect of the Public Relations Society of America's Boston Chapter, one of the largest in the nation.
