Whitney Corporate Relations was founded and is managed by Pamela Kostmayer Whitney.

Pamela Whitney has over twenty years experience in:

• Issues management

• Internal, external, crisis, and investor relations communications

• Grassroots organizing and lobbying at federal and state levels

• New market entry

• National, local, and internet media relations and monitoring

Her clients have included primarily Fortune 50 corporations, national coalitions and non-profits that understand the value of having constituents meet with and educate their legislator in their home districts regarding how pending legislation would positively or adversely impact their daily lives and businesses. Her firm’s new market entry skills were successful in allowing Wal-Mart in Vermont and gaming in Massachussetts.

Whitney is known for merging traditional organizational-building strategies with leading edge communications techniques. She has built marketing, public relations, government relations and crisis communications strategies for more than 100 of the nation’s best-known corporations. Her successes have been featured in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Financial Times, Commerce Daily, and multiple network and cable news programs.

She started her career in Senator Muskie’s press office on Capitol Hill, after his unsuccessful US Presidential bid in 1968. She was the only national board member of MADD with professional PR experience when it passed federal legislation to raise the national drinking age from 18 to 21 years of age. Presidential bid in 1968.

These experiences, combined with her past role as an active campaigner with her former spouse (D-Peter H. Kostmayer) gives her the unique perspective on federal, state and local legislators who must be educated on a client’s issue to either defeat or pass legislation. Experience has taught her that a legislator must listen to constituents firsthand to learn how pending legislation will impact their livelihoods.

Whitney is considered one of the nation’s preeminent authorities on countering false or inaccurate media attacks made against corporations. Her firm represented Food Lion in crisis management against the UFCW and ABC’s “Prime Time Live.” And, the two years she represented Wal-Mart Corporate, her firm was known affectionately as “the bad news bears.”

As an on-air correspondent for a live national television show syndicated in 160 markets, Whitney reported bi-weekly on women and pending federal legislation. Whitney also represented Chrysler Corporation as their national spokesperson for the Plymouth Voyager on a 13-city media tour. She frequently appeared with Matt Laur as a guest co-host on “CBS’s Philadelphia Live.” As a communication’s pundit, she has appeared on CNN multiple times.

She has lectured on anti-corporate campaigns before the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University, and at other prominent forums.