As CEO of anthonyBarnum, Melissa Anthony focuses on establishing a vision for public relations and social media designed to serve organizations’ most important business objectives. Known for her direct and analytical approach, she leads the firm’s business strategies, market offerings and distinct data-driven methodologies.
With 20 years of experience in public relations, the native Texan began her career in New York City where she held positions at renowned firms, including Access Communications and Ruder Finn. She has represented the Czech Republic in its accession to the EU, several of the largest companies in the world, and collaborated with numerous visionary leaders and entrepreneurs to distill their objectives into meaningful public relations strategies and results.
Melissa has served on the boards of Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and Central Texas Food Bank. She is recognized by Austin Business Journal as one of the most powerful women in business in the region and has received numerous awards for her civic contributions in support of veterans.
With more than a dozen years of experience in strategic communications, Matt leverages his wide range of expertise to create breakthrough, category-defining public relations strategies. Matt strategically partners with companies to architect and execute successful tier one national media campaigns. He specializes in synthesizing key concepts and issues for some of industry’s most complex sectors.
While at anthonyBarnum Matt has created leading-edge strategies for global technology companies and emerging category creators spanning new forms of computing input, advanced technologies for the healthcare sector and new concepts in transportation.
Matt began his career in public relations working on behalf of the Office of the Governor Bobby Jindal in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he assisted in the creation of strategies to align constituents and law makers.
Bryan has more than 15 years of experience in marketing communications, strategic planning and branding. He has been recognized by the Public Relations Society of America and American Marketing Association for developing marketing strategies that solidify customer and key stakeholder relationships through authenticity, trust and conversations.
As vice president, Bryan is responsible for campaign planning, execution, measurement and analysis – all to achieve predefined strategic goals for anthonyBarnum clients. He oversees a high-performance account team to drive results and ensure maximum client visibility and relationship building with priority stakeholders.
Prior to joining anthonyBarnum, Bryan spent 10 years at San Diego-based Nuffer, Smith, Tucker Public Relations, executing successful omni-channel marketing campaigns for leading B2B and industrial brands, including General Motors and Sony Electronics.