Our Team Scales Based on Your Needs.

Nick Puleo
  • President & Founder

    Nick is a communications strategist focused on helping brands protect and enhance their reputations and respond to challenges that arise in the public policy arena and through the course of conducting business. He has counseled senior leaders in government, business, nonprofits, and at organizations such as Harvard Business School, MIT, Bank of America, and Lloyd’s of London. Prior to founding Comsint, Nick worked as a Senior Vice President for corporate communications and issues management at Weber Shandwick, where he managed high-profile client assignments. Examples of his work include the Boston Athletic Association’s response to the marathon bombings, and a corporate restructuring at one of the world’s leading life science brands. Nick has extensive public affairs experience and has served as an elected and appointed government official.

  • Media Strategist

    Kate has more than 15 years of experience creating communications strategies for clients across a variety of industries that generate targeted media results in top-tier, national, and local business and trade press. A seasoned storyteller, Kate works closely with her clients to provide strategic counsel, internal, executive, and crisis communications strategies, media relations activities, and more, that align with business goals and priorities. Prior roles include Head of Communications at IEX Group, Inc., Executive Vice President of Communications and Head of Public Relations at FiComm Partners, Director of Public Relations at Monster, and Director at Weber Shandwick. In these roles she has worked on a variety of communications programs, including thought leadership platforms for businesses and their executives, leadership transitions, corporate restructurings, product launches, surveys, and investor reports, among others.

  • Executive Vice President

    Jenna Matthews is a seasoned global communications professional with more than 15 years of experience. Her career has been focused on developing award-winning campaigns for global and national brands, with a specialty in purpose-driven programming to enhance and protect client reputations.

    Jenna’s work has spanned a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods (CPG), technology, food, and healthcare. Her past clients include Mars, Microsoft, Honeywell, McCormick, Nestle, Verizon Wireless, WebMD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and several others.

    Prior to working with Comsint, Jenna was a Senior Vice President at Weber Shandwick where she led a division of the Mars work, focused on consumer and corporate programming.

  • Crisis and Issues Management Counsel

    Peter is a lawyer, crisis manager, and former veteran journalist for the Boston Globe with extensive experience advising companies, organizations, and individuals facing reputational threats that often arise from intense public scrutiny. He has provided crisis management counsel to clients on a wide range of issues, among them: state and federal probes; whistle-blower cases; corporate litigation; CEO, senior leadership, and employee issues; product recalls, SEC inquiries; sexual misconduct allegations; false information on social media; and newspaper investigations – in sectors including healthcare, higher education, biotech, technology, financial services, the arts, and philanthropy. Peter also conducts audits designed to assist clients in identifying vulnerabilities that carry reputational threats and aids in development of response plans to ensure they have the processes in place to effectively respond to and mitigate reputational matters.

Bill Atkinson
  • Media Relations and Executive Positioning Strategist

    Bill is a former Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who focuses on media relations, grassroots strategies, and strategic or crisis communications. His past clients include Constellation Energy, Honeywell, and General Motors. He previously served as a partner at 212 Communications and as a Senior Vice President at Weber Shandwick. Prior to his 15 years in public relations, Bill spent 21 years as a reporter. He served as a business columnist at the Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a twice-weekly column that tracked the personal dimensions of top executives of Maryland corporations, and before that as an editor at American Banker and a number of other business publications. He has appeared on CNBC’s “American Greed.”

Kelly Kass
  • Media Strategist

    Kelly is a passionate and trusted public relations expert with deep experience counseling high-profile brands on all facets of media relations, while always taking a strategic and integrated approach. Kelly was previously Vice President of Media Relations at Weber Shandwick for over 10 years. She was called on throughout the agency as the media specialist to consistently secure high impact coverage. She always navigates the complex media landscape with her exceptional relationships at top-tier outlets, including Forbes, The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and The Today Show.

  • Video Producer

    Dan is an award-winning director/editor with over a decade of production experience. He excels at crafting stories and creating content that aligns with client communications and business goals. He brings this expertise to all facets of production, from brainstorming concepts to shooting on-set, all the way through post-production. His high-profile clients have included Bank of America, Novartis, Harvard Business School, Staples, and Hellmann’s, among others.

  • Account Director

    Sarah helps organizations translate their stories and build connections with audiences through compelling content and copywriting. With deep content marketing experience across industries - from healthcare to education and technology - she leverages each client’s brand voice to craft copy that drives audience engagement and action while creating a lasting brand identity.

Peter Brown
  • Communications Strategist

    Peter helps organizations create and develop their story, deliver their messages to internal and external audiences, and navigate communications during a crisis. His diverse background includes serving as Chief of Staff to the President and CEO of Partners HealthCare and as Vice President of Public Affairs and Communication for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He spent more than 25 years in television journalism, including more than a decade as News Director at WBZ-TV Boston, where he led a staff of 125 journalists. Among his many accolades, he has received an Emmy Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his work.

  • SEO/SEM Specialist

    Kevin brings significant expertise in digital strategy, search engine optimization (SEO), sales, web design, and content marketing. His leadership and success at the helm of a Boston-based digital agency for the past 15 years has landed the firm a top spot in Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies four years in a row. He has earned this title by helping national household brand names like Raytheon, Groupon, and Mosquito Shield Franchise get better conversion in an ever-complex digital marketing landscape. With a strong business development background and an MBA focused on entrepreneurial studies from Bentley, he aligns with clients’ business goals with ease.

  • Digital and Social Strategist

    Jenn provides digital marketing and advertising strategy and horsepower to companies and organizations of all shapes and sizes. A self-proclaimed “data nerd,” Jenn skulks inside Google Analytics, and website back-ends in a brand’s online presence to find meaningful trends and develop smart digital marketing strategies. After spending a couple of decades in large national agencies, Jenn realized that creative campaigns alone wouldn’t move the business needle. She set out on her own over five years ago with a focus on developing lead-generation campaigns that truly consider clients’ business goals. Her business-forward discovery process has earned her C-suite praise from national organizations including Mosquito Shield, Pet Wants, and Quanterix.

The Comsint Network

 
 
 

 Magis Strategy Group is a management consultancy that specializes in helping purpose-driven brands thrive. Our Harvard Business School trained team works with senior leaders to hone business strategies, grow memberships and develop new offerings to unlock additional value.

 
 

GreenBananaSEO delivers industry leading Pay for Performance SEO to Conversion based digital marketing. Let us show you how we can help you grow your business with a focus on you.

 
 

Trailside Studios is a full-service production company focussed on delivering impeccable results through visual storytelling. From scripting to shooting to post production, clients use our videos to build their brand and drive engagement. 

 
 

Lumino helps organizations manage, monitor and defend their digital presence.