Caren Kagan Evans                                                                                              
Founder, President and CEO
Caren brings to the firm nearly three decades of experience in public relations, advertising, broadcast communications, marketing and management. Since founding ECI Communications in 1989, Caren has successfully planned and implemented campaigns for association management firms, coalitions, corporations, non-profits, public relations firms and trade associations throughout the country.

Amy Schaeffer                                                                                                        
Director of Communications
With more than 20 years of experience in public relations and broadcast communications, Amy's emphasis is on national, regional and local media relations, special event planning and producing exciting, informative and effective videos, radio and television PSAs, and interactive CDs and DVDs.

Ben Mackler and Darrin Raaum
Senior Graphic Designers
Ben and Darrin each bring to ECI more than two decades of experience designing and award-winning logos, websites, trade show exhibits, presentations, interactive CDs and DVDs, annual reports, print and online magazines, newsletters, brochures, ads, PSAs and other collateral materials.

Carol Blymire           
Carol's key focus is on policy communications, message development and positioning, speechwriting, member communications efforts and grassroots outreach, enabling our clients to advance their initiatives on Capitol Hill, in the White House and with state and local legislators across the country.

Dennis Kleinman                                                                                                  
Writer, Producer and Director
An award-winning writer, director and producer of everything from print ads and brochures to television commercials, music videos and fully narrated and produced CDs and DVDs, Dennis also has produced documentaries and entertainment programming for the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, VH1 and Women's Entertainment.

Elaine Gansz Bobo
As a former spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration, deputy vice president for communications and public affairs at PhRMA and vice president and Burson Marsteller in Washington, D.C., Elaine brings innate insight to our clients’ campaigns, helping them to articulate their goals, define target audiences and creating strategies that achieve those objectives with messages that resonate.

Gene O’Neil                                                              
Vice President for Internet and Social Media Marketing
A pioneer in social media and Internet marketing, Gene develops comprehensive campaigns that include website usability studies; search engine visibility enhanced by social media strategies; third-level metric reporting; and tone tracking to monitor social media for positive or negative comments in order to develop strategies for countering or reinforcing those comments.

Jayme Soulati
Director of Media Relations
Jayme has an expansive career in public relations and marketing with an emphasis on print, broadcast and online media relations. For 18 years, she worked in the Chicago public relations community, garnering a keen strategist orientation to program execution that aligns business goals with communications objectives.

Julie Well
Senior Vice President for Public Relations
With more than 20 years' experience in public relations and marketing, Julie Well acts as a strategist and to help clients solve problems and attack critical issues through communication. She stimulates our team to apply their own creativity and analytical thinking by probing into the objectives, causes and potential solutions for communication challenges.