Kristine Schaefer

Kristine Schaefer , principal of Loma Communications, Inc. develops communications and training programs for major corporations, start-ups, public affairs and government agencies. For the past 20 years, she has coached hundreds of executives and professional spokespersons in the technology, financial services, pharmaceutical, biotech and consumer industries.

Specializing in media training, crisis communications and positioning and messaging programs, she has collaborated with global PR firms including Edelman, Hill & Knowlton, Porter Novelli and Weber Shandwick.

Kristine served as a spokesperson for major corporations, start-ups and government agencies. As vice president at The Weber Group (now Weber Shandwick), she was a senior communications counselor to an $8 billion dollar division of IBM, to Internet and software companies, and to top trade and government officials in Asia . She has lectured at San Francisco State University 's New Media Program, the Software Developers' Forum conference, and at Bulldog Reporter's PR University conference.

Kristine works regularly in the United Kingdom , Europe, The People's Republic of China , and Taiwan . Her clients have appeared on CNN, CNBC, on the cover of Business Week, Forbes, in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and in scores of other business, trade and vertical news outlets around the world.