Nancy Thompson on Clubhouse

Bio

Nancy Thompson, president of Vorticom Inc., and a published author of four popular books on Internet communications, has extensive experience securing national and international media visibility for Fortune 500 and emerging companies.

Prior to establishing her own firm, she developed and managed from $1M to over $3M in client billings at three of the top ten global public relations agencies including Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Grey Advertising's GCI Group, and Publicis.

As a technology-marketing specialist, her clients included: Ziff Davis Consumer Media, General Media International, Macmillan Publishing, and Borland International.

Nancy has also served as an on-air contributor to the CBS National News “Up-to-the-Minute” program on Internet-related issues. She also served as a columnist and public relations consultant for Ziff-Davis’ Computer Life magazine. During her tenure with Computer Life magazine, Nancy placed two contributing editors on CBS’s “Up-to-the-Minute” as weekly contributors to the program.

Nancy has also held marketing positions at BBDO, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Columbia House and Simon & Schuster. A graduate from Stony Brook University and Juilliard Pre-College, Nancy began her career as a violist at Mexico’s Filarmonica de las Americas.

BTW, a net veteran she authored net.talk in 1994 for Ziff-Davis Press, offering insight into the online language of acronyms and emoticons.