Leadership

Jodi Amendola, CEO

Jodi Amendola is an award-winning public relations and marketing communications expert with two decades of experience in providing counsel and implementing and overseeing strategic marketing and public relations programs for a diversified healthcare, technology, real estate and professional services client base. For three consecutive years, Jodi's vision and industry acumen have led Amendola Communications to be ranked as one of the information technology (IT) industry's five "Best-of-the-Best" small PR agencies by PRSourceCode's "Top Tech Communicators" study. Additionally, Jodi has been recognized year after year as a "Top Tech PR Pro" for her personal contributions to the editorial community. In 2009, Jodi was named an elite Forty-Under-40 business leader by the Phoenix Business Journal. Jodi was also elected to the Board of X2 Health Network (X2HN), a not-for-profit exclusive executive women's health network that shares ideas, competencies and resources to improve healthcare leadership, policy and delivery.

Jodi is a hands-on leader providing strategic direction and ongoing involvement in all phases of client public relations and marketing programs. She has placed client stories in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and top-tier trade journals in various market niches. She has led campaigns for industry giants and start-up companies, including Cisco, Intel, TriZetto, CliniComp, Allscripts, MEDSEEK, QuadraMed, Medicity, Awarepoint, Eclipsys, multiple McKesson business units, Saxa (formerly Shea Commercial), World Communications Center, Dermacare Laser & Skincare Clinics, and MphasiS Healthcare Solutions/Eldorado.

Ted Amendola, President/COO

Ted Amendola brings more than 30 years of business, computer and educational experience to Amendola Communications. With a diverse background in various leadership positions in education, architecture and computer technology, Ted oversees the agency operations. Prior to co-founding Amendola Communications, Ted served as business development director and technical advisor for the western division of a national marketing communications firm. He played a key role in the agency's western expansion and business development in healthcare and technology markets.

Jan Shulman, Executive Vice President

Jan Shulman is an award-winning senior public relations and marketing communications expert with more than 30 years of experience covering all aspects of media relations, strategic counsel, marketing communications, crisis prevention and management and community relations.

She has worked at several agencies that specialize in helping healthcare, financial services, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, real estate, professional services and high-tech companies. Jan has provided strategic direction and project implementation, delivering bottom-line results for numerous clients including: McKesson Specialty, Eclipsys, Sage, SDI/Verispan, Kimberly-Clark Professional Healthcare, Motorola, Sears, Amersham, Keller Williams Southwest Realty, HomeStore, and Calvis Wyant.

On the corporate side she was Director of Marketing & Communications at Alliance Medical Corp., Director of Public Affairs at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and held PR and marketing positions at the American Hospital Association and The Joint Commission.

Todd Stein, Vice President

Todd Stein is an award-winning communicator with more than 20 years’ experience driving business growth, brand awareness and investor confidence for technology startups, mid-sized companies and Fortune 500 corporations. From 2006 to 2011 Todd led public relations for Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), helping the healthcare IT company grow revenue from $120 million to $1.4 billion. His communications savvy and media relations skills helped catapult Allscripts from a niche electronic health record provider to a global healthcare powerhouse in the span of six years. In addition to leading media relations, Todd provided strategic public relations’ counsel to the CEO and senior leadership team, wrote all press releases and executive-authored articles, provided crisis management and media training, initiated and edited the company’s public blog, and managed Allscripts’ quarterly earnings call in partnership with Investor Relations.

A former business and technology reporter for the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Business Times, Todd has published hundreds of articles on a wide variety of topics in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Magazine, California Hospitals, Healthcare Informatics, Physicians Practice, Caring, HFM, Healthcare Executive, NurseWeek and dozens of other regional and national publications.

A student of business success, Todd began his PR career as an account executive with the groundbreaking San Francisco technology agency, Antenna Group. As the principle of Stein Communications, he delivered marketing, communications and PR services for clients including the American Hospital Association, IDX Systems (now GE), Welch Allyn, Wolters Kluwer Health, HIMSS, the California Healthcare Association and Allscripts. For News Broadcast Network, Inc., Todd was part of a team that developed video news releases for Fortune 500 corporations, national organizations, trade associations, non-profits and government agencies.

Todd has been honored by the League of American Communications Professionals (for marketing writing); by the California Society of Professional Journalists (for magazine feature writing); and by PRSourceCode's "Top Tech Communicators" survey (for corporate public relations).

Tim Boivin, Managing Director

Tim is a seasoned PR veteran with experience across a dozen vertical markets including healthcare, technology and supply chain. Tim brings a diverse skill set including leading accounts, managing teams and budgets, developing and implementing communications strategies, as well as hands-on, results-oriented public relations and social media programs.

Tim spent 12 years at Tech Image, Chicago's leading independent high-tech public relations firm, where he managed agency operations and led an award-winning team that received the Top Tech Communicators Award in an independent survey of technology journalists by PR SourceCode five years in a row. Tim also led the team that developed the agency's Social Media Playbook, which is used by the agency's clients as well as leading industry associations for their integrated social media campaigns.

During his career, Tim has designed and implemented thought leadership campaigns for leading business-to-business technology companies. More than a dozen of Tim's clients have been acquired by tech industry leaders such as Oracle, IBM, Sprint, SAS and JDA Software. He has also provided strategic guidance on thought leadership campaigns for some of the top technology associations in the country, including the Society for Information Management, CompTIA, SHARE (an IBM enterprise IT user group) and the Independent Oracle Users Group.

Earlier in his career, Tim served as a senior account executive for Axiom Solutions, a marketing consulting firm that provided branding, corporate identity, training and market research services for Fortune 500 healthcare clients. His clients included Abbott, SmithKline Beecham, Beckman Coulter, Ventana Medical Systems and bioMerieux.

Tim's career in media and public relations began in the U.S. Army, where he was an award-winning journalist and public affairs professional who served at Ft. Benning, GA, 2nd Infantry Division on the De-Militarized Zone in Korea, and Ft. Huachuca, AZ. His military career culminated with an assignment as the bureau chief in Wuerzburg, Germany, covering troops along the East German border for the European Stars & Stripes newspaper. After he left the service, he worked for Army Times Publishing Company as a business writer covering the military's global retail systems and their suppliers.

Tim is a graduate of Roosevelt University and the Society for Information Management's Regional Leadership Program. He is the Director of Cary Pride Day, a community beautification program that draws more than 100 volunteers annually and in 2007 received the State of Illinois Governor's Home Town Award for Excellence through Volunteerism. Tim served on the Boy Scout Troop 657 and Cub Scout Pack 557 committees, and was a founding board member of CHARACTER COUNTS! in Cary and the first President of the Cary-Grove High School Cross Country and Track & Field Association. In 2007, he was the first recipient of the Village of Cary’s Pride Award for service to the community, and in 2012 was one of six inaugural recipients of the Cary Park District Service Award.

Angela Jenkins, Senior Account Director

Angela Jenkins, is a seasoned public relations professional with a proven track record in healthcare and technology with grounding in journalism, agency and corporate environments. Before joining Amendola Communications, Angela focused exclusively on promoting healthcare information technologies at McKesson (then HBOC), Per-Se Technologies, Misys Healthcare Systems, and Thomson Healthcare (Micromedex). Her domain knowledge of clinical systems includes: Evidence-based clinical decision support, workflow and mobile integration, EHRs, clinical labs, pharmacy, radiology/PACS, revenue cycle management, and e-health/EDI.

Angela is a recipient of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Gold and Silver Flame Awards and was also named a PRSourceCode "Top Tech" PR professional.

Janet Cabibbo, Account Director

Janet Cabibbo brings more than 17 years public relations and marketing experience in the IT industry and has focused in healthcare IT for the past seven years. Specializing in integrated marketing and public relations campaigns, Janet excels in helping companies realize short-term, tactical goals while effectively planning for the future. Clients served at Amendola Communications include Allscripts, Medicity, vRad, and NCPDP, among others.

Prior to joining Amendola Communications, Janet served as Director of Marketing and Public Relations at ESS, the leading provider of environmental, health & safety and crisis management sustainability software, serving over half of the Fortune 500. She has also held senior marketing management and public relations positions at Quality Care Solutions, Inc. (QCSI) and The Trizetto Group. As the Corporate Director of Communications & Marketing at Prologic Management Systems, Inc., Janet was responsible for developing the strategic plans and hands-on execution of the company's integrated marketing communications, public relations and investor relations programs. She also provided corporate oversight of marketing activities at the business unit level for its manufacturing (inventory/materials management) software group to its systems integration service providers.

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