Katita Stark - Stark Communications Inc.

President, Stark Communications Inc.

Katita Stark is an award-winning public relations practitioner who has managed for over twenty years her own marketing public relations business based in Toronto, Canada, where she services primarily a North American client base.

Previous to forming SCI, she was Vice President, Public Relations of a PR firm which she help launch and which is associated with one of Canada's largest advertising agencies. Recently, she also worked as interim Senior Vice President of an international PR firm to help build its corporate practice.

Katita has also worked with the federal government in five major departments, based in Winnipeg and Ottawa, with responsibilities for internal, regional and national communications programs, providing strategic planning and program execution. In addition, she began her career in Los Angeles and New York City as a feature writer then later as public relations manager for an international monthly magazine.

She has worked with sectors from corporate, to all levels of government, consumer, financial, professional associations, and not for profit organizations. Some of her present clients include; Bank of Montreal, GGOF Guardian Group of Funds, National Newspaper Awards Annual Gala, OpenSky Capital (National Bank), National Gallery of Canada, Desjardins Financial Security, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Associated Brands - J-Cloth, Janus Global Consulting, Nienkämper Furniture, EarthFresh™Foods, Fernlea Nurseries, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Katita is an award-winning, accredited member of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) and was inducted in June 2002 into the CPRS College of Fellows. Annually, she is an accreditation examiner for CPRS, past Chair of the CPRS Toronto Consultants Institute, past president of CPRS Ottawa and is a member of the Public Relations Society of America's Counselors Academy. Katita was recently Chair of the Montebello Conference, a national think tank for senior communications practitioners.

Currently, she is a member and alumni of the Board of Governors of Canada's oldest co-ed boarding school, Albert College, Belleville, Ontario and Chair of the Board of Governors of VoicePrint, National Broadcast Reading Service Inc., Canada, which provides a national broadcast news service and described movies on video and audiocassette to the sight impaired. Also, she is a veteran speaker at conferences on communications/marketing public relations, specifically on the process and benefits of communications audits and networking.