Monday's Meeting, May 4

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Hello everyone. I hope midterms went well for everyone last week. This week we are very excited to welcome Zachary Bingham and Ashley Sanders from SBC Advertising in Columbus. SBC Advertising was awarded "Best Ad Agency" in 2008 by readers of Columbus CEO Magazine. These two great professionals are sure to share some wonderful insights of the communications field. The meeting will be in Scripps 111 at 6 p.m.

Zachary Bingham is the Vice President of Public Relations at SBC. He graduated with honors from the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 1997 with a major of public relations. He started his career in corporate communications at Ohio Health in Columbus. There he conducted media relations, internal communications, crisis communications and served as the editor of the employee newsletter. Later, Zachary moved to SBC where he managed miltiple accounts in the PR division including Donatos, several Sherwin Williams product lines and GOJO. He then started a consulting business, Infiniate Communications. He obtained clients in healthcare, environmental consulting, technology and restaurant sectors. He also served as the Public Information Officer with State of Ohio Homeland Security Task Force.

Later Zachary returned to SBC to run the PR division. He currently manages a roster of national brands such as Elmers Glue, Bob Evans, Channellock Tools, Tyco, Armstrong, Blue Rhino and AJ Wright. Zachary lives in Columbus with his wife and two kids.

Ashley Sanders is an account executive at SBC Advertising. She graduated from Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism in 2005 with a major in PR and an emphasis on political communication. She began interning at SBC in 2004 and has never left. She began working on media relations campaigns on building products clients like Wayne Dalton Garage doors and Armstrong. Today Ashely works in account management for Elmers, AJ Wright, Bob Evans and Berry Company/Yellow Pages. Her role includes event planning, media relations and client relations, to name a few.

Both say they feel lucky to work with a bunch of great people (many of them OU grads!) and work on projects that have won numerous PRISMS and recognition from clients.

Please join us to welcome these OU grads back to Athens at 6 p.m. As always, if you have any questions, please respond to scripps.prssa@gmail.com. You can also check us out on twitter (twitter.com/ScrippsPRSSA).