Publicity & Media Relations

Publicity and Media Relations: (Sole Practitioners)

Nancy Amiel

Nancy Amiel is an experienced professional with expertise in public relations, corporate issues and crisis management, internal and external communications, marketing, and event and project management. She applies a high degree of creativity and innovation to achieve her clients’ strategic goals, while remaining well-grounded in the business needs that underlie any decision.

Now an advisor to corporate and nonprofit clients, she spent five years as a senior vice president and member of the Operating Committee of The Bond Market Association. For 15 years she managed the corporate public relations and internal communications departments for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, now known as AXA Financial, and served as its principal communications strategist and media spokesperson. Before moving to Equitable, she was a vice president at Howard J. Rubenstein Associates, one of the nation’s top public relations firms. She started her professional career at the Urban Development Corporation, now the Empire State Development Corp.

Ms. Amiel received her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Fordham University. She is active in a number of professional and trade organizations and has been a speaker at several forums. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of American, Women in Communications, American Society of Association Executives and PRS: NY.

Martin Arnold

Martin Arnold has 40-years experience in PR and media in the minerals, energy and timber industries. After retiring from ITT in 2000, he started his own PR practice with clients in both profit and non-profit. He teaches Organizational Communication, PR, Writing, Speech and Media Studies at UConn. He holds an MA in Communications from Fairfield and an MBA from the University of New Haven. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington where he majored in PR and Advertising.