Next PRSA meeting: Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005
TIME: Networking at 11:30 a.m.; presentation at noon
LOCATION: Club LeConte, downtown Knoxville
TOPIC: Taking communications from the nation to the world
SPEAKER: Kevin G. Lowery - Director, Corporate Communications for Alcoa
Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA.
RSVP: Cheryl Ball at [log in to unmask] Deadline is Monday, Oct.
17. No shows will be billed.
Make plans to attend the upcoming PRSA Volunteer Chapter membership
meeting hear Kevin Lowery, director of corporate communications for
Alcoa, speak on taking your communications worldwide.
Lowery joined Alcoa in March 2002 as associate director of corporate
communications and today is director - corporate communications. He is
responsible for developing annual communications plans, and using
corporate brand positioning as the company's communications platform. He
also leads media relations, and financial and shareholder
communications, partnering closely with investor relations, and has
responsibility for internal and external communications as well as
marketing communications and the company's website, www.alcoa.com.
Lowery most recently oversaw corporate and brand communications at
Campbell Soup Company and Vlasic Foods International. In these roles he
was responsible for media relations, corporate and brand positioning,
financial and crisis communications and sponsorships, including the
company's Olympic and National Football League initiatives.
He is a 1986 graduate of LaSalle College, where he graduated with a B.A.
degree in Communications. Lowery was the recipient of the Public
Relations Society of America's Silver Anvil award in 1995, the
organization's highest honor for public relations work.
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