Biography

Kay Paumier helps technology companies spread the word about their products and services, helping them become better known, more credible and more profitable.

How does she do this?

Paumier uses her 25 years of experience to help businesses and organizations effectively communicate their core strengths to the media, analysts, employees, business partners and other audiences.

In the process, Paumier has developed a reputation as a hands-on, senior-level consultant, adept at providing “high-level” strategic counseling, “lower-level” editing and everything in between.

Since 1987, Paumier has been an independent consultant, serving clients that range from Fortune 1,000 companies to start-ups, especially in the hardware, software and online areas.

Representative technology clients include Nokia, Memjet, Fujitsu, Novell, Richard Sampson Associates (online construction service) Jameco Electronics (distributor of electronic components) and MoJo Designs (embedded software).

Representative healthcare clients include the Center for Healthcare Technologies (Lawrence Livermore Laboratories), Toshiba America Medical Systems (MRI) and Voxel (3-dimensional holographic imaging).

Paumier has helped these and other organizations increase demand for their products and services through coverage in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Investor’s Business Daily, The Economist, Scientific American, Fortune Magazine and Newsweek; on national TV news; on the covers of leading trade publications and in innumerable other “hits.”

Before founding Communications Plus in 1987, Paumier was a vice president at D-A-Y Public Relations, a national PR firm. She also was an account executive at Russom & Leeper and Ruder & Finn Public Relations, both in San Francisco.

Paumier also:

• Does in-house training for technology PR firms with offices in Palo Alto, Santa Clara and New York.
• Has earned the Accredited Public Relations (APR) certification from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
• Teaches PR at UC Extension, Berkeley and Santa Cruz. She taught PR workshops at the San Jose State University Professional Development Center for more than a decade, and has made presentations at the Cisco Systems • San Jose Entrepreneur Center.
• Has received 17 local, national and international awards for her PR programs: from the Northern California Chapters of PRSA and the Business Marketing Association (BMA), from the Hermes Creative Awards, League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) and Marcom Awards.
• Regularly contributed articles to “Valley Life Quarterly,” a publication of the “Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.”