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Ellen Mellody is President and Founder of EMM Communications, a strategic communications and public relations firm that delivers integrated and smart solutions to clients. ��

Ellen Mellody has more than 15 years of experience in public relations, political communications, corporate communications, digital strategies, crisis management, government affairs and emergency preparedness consulting.��

Prior to founding EMM Communications, Ellen Mellody worked at Comcast, in the White House, for General Electric, three presidential campaigns, the governor of New Jersey, The North Face and in various locations around the globe including in Baghdad, Iraq and Sarajevo, Bosnia.��

Most recently, Ellen Mellody served as the Director of Corporate Communications at Comcast, a global media and technology company. There, Ellen developed and executed communications strategies to drive awareness of company-wide initiatives and Xfinity products and services. She also helped to position Comcast as a technology leader, and as �“the place” to experience entertainment across screens during a critical time in the entertainment and media industry.

��In 2008, Ellen joined the Obama for America Campaign as its Pennsylvania Press Secretary responsible for creating and executing communications, media relations and earned media strategies in the Commonwealth. Her efforts helped to secure a sizable win in Pennsylvania, a state critical to the 2008 bid for the presidency. ��

From 2005 to 2008, Ellen worked at GE Water & Process Technologies as the Global Communication & Media Relations Manager, cultivating and implementing its global public relations, media relations, public affairs and crisis communications.��Ellen also served as: a primary spokesperson to Governor James E. McGreevey in a post 9-11 environment; the Southern Communications Director for the Gore-Lieberman Campaign; a Special Assistant to the Senior Advisor for Policy & Communications at The White House during the Clinton Administration; National White House Advance Staff under Clinton; and at The North Face in a communications role.��

Ms. Mellody holds certificates of achievement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security, and a degree in Communications from the University of Scranton.