Erin Lumley, Founder, EL~PR
Erin Lumley is a public relations and social media leader with over 25 years of industry experience. She specializes in helping e-mobility and EV brands create compelling and industry-leading stories that drive awareness, engagement, and growth. She is certified in social media by University of San Francisco and currently serves as the founder of EL~PR, a PR agency focused on the e-mobility and EV space.
Erin has a proven track record of delivering results for B2B and B2C clients across various sectors, including mobile, wireless, education, fintech, retail, banking, automotive, and enterprise. She has worked with start-ups, mid-market, and global publicly traded companies, such as Autodesk, Salesforce.com, Fiserv, Amperage Capital, AmpUp, WeaveGrid, Paren, and ChargePoint.
She excels at competitive analysis, strategy, messaging, media coaching, media relations, analyst relations, content and blog creation, and social media campaigns. She has secured media coverage in broadcast, technology, and business publications, such as CNBC, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and USA Today.
Jennifer Spoerri, Media Strategist, EL~PR
Jennifer Spoerri’s 25+ years of public relations experience runs the gamut of business, technology and consumer-focused products and services. She has a deep understanding of the new media landscape and is adept at employing both traditional tactics and new tools to get the job done. Having worked on both sides of the media, Jennifer knows what makes for a good story. Equally important, she understands the significance of delivering real news and authoritative experts and in cultivating long-term relationships with the media.
Among her top areas of expertise are cleantech, healthcare, emerging and disruptive technology companies in health and enterprise technology, big data, artificial intelligence, remote medical monitoring and augmented/virtual reality. Equally adept at publicizing technology start-ups and blue-chip brands, Jennifer has a tremendous track record in media placements for such companies as ChargePoint, WeaveGrid, Sol Systems, SEMA, Alignment Healthcare, athenahealth, Honor, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Swanson Health, Momentum for Mental Health (for Dr. Vivek Murthy), Intarcia Therapeutics, The Wonderful Company, Match.com, Sunset Magazine, and many additional clients.
An integral lead of any media strike force, Jennifer is known for finding creative ways to differentiate the companies she works with and for persevering until she gets them the media coverage she passionately believes they deserve. Her deep relationships with key healthcare media include the likes of Modern Healthcare, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fast Company, CNN, CNBC, Marketplace, Fast Company, Business Insider, Reuters, Kaiser Health News, NPR, Bloomberg News, among others. Many of these relationships span decades, and Ms. Spoerri regularly places thought leadership pieces at Modern Healthcare, McKnight’s, Becker’s, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and TechCrunch.
Jennifer majored in Political Science and Russian at Grinnell College and has a degree in Political Science from San Francisco State and remained on the Dean’s list for the duration of her time there.