ABOUT THE FOUNDERS

Mark Weiss
Partner

Mark Weiss, a founding partner of Harbor Group Communications, is a highly experienced public relations professional with an in-depth consumer marketing, business-to-business and corporate communications background.

Mark was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Rowland Communications, a worldwide public relations firm and Saatchi & Saatchi Rowland Worldwide, the integrated communications arm of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, where he had management responsibility for both agencies' global operations.

In this capacity, Mark provided strategic and creative counsel to many of the agencys' national and multinational clients in the areas of consumer product marketing, community relations and event marketing, business-to-business communications, reputation management, franchisee and dealer relations, internal communications, corporate and brand positioning, and value-chain distribution communications.

Throughout his career, Mark has been recognized for the energy and passion that envelopes the insight, ideas and programs he has delivered to numerous corporations and brands, including McDonald's, Northwest Airlines, Sharp Electronics, Sanyo, DuPont, Canon, S.C. Johnson, M&M Mars, Mobil, Mori Building Company, Citibank, North Shore Hospital, ADVO, 100% Recycled Paperboard Association, Puerto Rico Tourism, New York State Tourism, Sands Hotel, Crown Plaza Hotel, Noxzema Brand, The Health Company, Lighting Science Group and Procter & Gamble.

Over the years, Mark has been instrumental in developing many results-optimization, cost reduction initiatives designed to maximize delivery of communications resources including public relations, advertising, direct to consumer programs, trade marketing and internet communications -- this to enhance business building and leadership reputation results for small and mid-market companies as well as for multinational brands and corporations. Mark has been cited numerous times in trade publications for guidance that has helped clients grow their business while achieving reputation leadership in their respective categories.

Mark spearheaded development of the agency's proprietary Point-Of-Entry Communications process, a methodology designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of PR and integrated communications programs by uncovering and employing dynamic market forces and value-chain influences and influence networks in the service of corporate and brand reputation and or increasing sales.

Mark is the inventor of Intel-A-Scan, a consumer-activated, barcode driven sales-aid device and network designed to assure manufacturers consistent delivery of product information and sales motivating messages at point-of-purchase.

Mark is an elected Trustee of the Village of Hewlett Harbor, NY and is a member of the Board of Directors of Peninsula Counseling Center, the oldest and largest not-for-profit mental health organization in Nassau County, NY. Mark is married and the father of two boys. Mark holds a Master's degree in behavioral and social psychology from The New School for Social Research in New York City.

Anthony R. Katz
Partner

Tony Katz and Mark Weiss founded Harbor Group Communications in late 2003. The New York City-based public relations and marketing consultancy is dedicated to building leadership reputations and accelerating sales for businesses and organizations, brands and products.

Previously, Tony was a member of the senior management team of Saatchi & Saatchi Rowland Communications Worldwide for twelve years, with lead management responsibilities in three areas. He was President of Rowland Consulting, the marketing and communications strategy arm; Chief Strategy Officer; and President of the Corporate Reputation Practice working in the areas of corporate image and issues, positioning and branding, business-to-business and corporate social responsibility programming.

Earlier, Tony served for more than thirteen years at Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations (and its predecessor agency) as Executive Vice President and Sector Head, directing that firm's Corporate Affairs Practice. Prior to joining O&MPR, Tony served for three years as public affairs counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Burson-Marsteller, where he conducted government relations, lobbying and issues communications programs for clients.

Major corporate clients have included Canon U.S.A, DuPont, ADVO Inc., Merril Lynch, National Westminster Bank U.S.A., Tishman Construction Company, Tishman Real Estate Services Company, Mori Building Company Ltd., Egon Zehnder International, Duracell, Scott Paper Company, Freeport-McMoRan, Gould Inc., Waste Management Inc., Air Products & Chemical Corp., Nestle U.S.A., Ford Motor Company, North Shore-LIJ Health System, The Principal Financial Group, Shell Oil, Southern California Edison Company, EAB Bank, TYBRIN Corporation.

Major association clients have included American Waterways Operators, American Management Association, International Association For Financial Planning, Aluminum Association, Western Energy Supply & Transmission Associates (20 electric power companies in the West), the 100% Recycled Paperboard Alliance.

His corporate PR programs have won recognition in the areas of corporate image, business-to-business communications, corporate social responsibility and environmental citizenship, as well as crisis communications - from such organizations as Inside Public Relations' CIPRA Awards, Mercury Awards, NY Public Relations Society of America, Business Committee for The Arts and The New England Publicity Club for Crisis Communications.

Tony received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He holds an A.B. from Franklin and Marshall College and also studied at the City of London College, England.

He lives, quietly, in South Salem, NY and Naples, Fl. He has two terrific sons - - one at Indiana University's Journalism School and the other an entering high schooler in Westchester.

Tony serves as a Board Member of Ventanas at Tiberon in Naples, Fl. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of The Friends of Green Chimneys, the development arm of the nationally-renowned social services leader in restoring possibilities for the tri-state area's most at risk children from troubled families. In addition, he is a trustee of The Jacob Epstein Foundation, a philanthropic fund located in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2002, he joined the community theater company in his area, appearing since then in four musical productions - Salutes to Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers and '60s and '70s musical reviews.