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Christopher Dudley – CEO/Principal

Christopher Dudley – CEO/Principal

Chris Dudley has more than 30 years’ experience in journalism, communication, public relations, and marketing for scientific, healthcare and educational institutions. Since the early years of his career in television news, Chris has served in leadership roles at the University of Florida, the University of Miami, and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Specializing in strategic planning and media relations, Chris and his programs have won multiple regional and national awards. He is an active past chair of the Healthcare Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber. Read More

Karen G. Dudley – Vice President/Principal

Karen G. Dudley – Vice President/Principal

Karen Dudley has more than 20 years’ experience in major and principal gift fundraising for such successful nonprofit organizations as the University of Miami, South Florida Annenberg Challenge, Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation, Holy Cross Hospital, Zoological Society of South Florida, and The Nature Conservancy. Karen specializes in board development, strategic planning, capital campaigns, foundation and nonprofit start-ups, and donor identification and strategy. Her early career experience was in the financial services industry in management roles for Fortune 500 corporations. Read More

Maria Elena Aitken – Associate

Maria Elena Aitken – Associate

Maria Elena Aitken is a marketing consultant specializing in corporate and institutional marketing and communications programs for small, medium, and large institutions. With nearly 20 years of experience in graphic design, art direction, and general marketing consulting, Maria Elena’s strength is execution in brand management, marketing collateral production, and project management. Read More

Karen Buchsbaum – Associate

Karen Buchsbaum – Associate

Karen Buchsbaum is an award winning consultant in the field of healthcare communications and provides healthcare writing services. Capabilities include covering medical, business and consumer topics, as well as dealing with patients, staff and physicians. She provides support at any level, including: magazine articles, newsletter content, annual reports, backgrounders, white papers, brochures, advertorials, editorials, ghost-written material, news releases, business documents and reports. Read More

Carol Lang – Associate

Carol Lang – Associate

Carol Lang is a seasoned Human Resources professional with more than 18 years’ experience providing HR strategy, direction and support for non-profit and government organizations. She is adept at building HR departments from the ground up and at transforming disorganized HR organizations into well-functioning, cost-efficient and legally compliant entities. Read More

Roderick N. Petrey, JD – Associate

Roderick N. Petrey, JD – Associate

Roderick N. Petrey (Rod) is an attorney assisting clients with legal matters of setting up and running nonprofit organizations and board governance. With more than 40 years of experience in working with nonprofit organizations, Rod leads two public policy consulting organizations and served as President of the Collins Center for Public Policy for twenty years until mid-2011. Rod was named the “2011 Floridian of the Year” by Florida Trend, the state’s primary business magazine, for his accomplishments at the Collins Center. Read More