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Welz & Weisel Communications Hires Jayna Kliner as Vice President

Rapidly Growing Washington DC Area Technology Public Relations Firm Continues to Build Out Senior Management Team

Fairfax, VA - November 13, 2007 - Welz & Weisel Communications, a strategic public relations firm 100 percent focused on creating awareness and credibility campaigns for information technology companies, today announced the appointment of Jayna Kliner to vice president. With over a decade of agency and corporate communications experience in the high-tech market, Kliner will oversee account teams, strategic planning and execution for clients as well as help guide the overall direction of the firm.

Leveraging her strengths in strategic planning, media relations, writing, crisis communications and message development, Kliner has driven results-oriented programs for emerging and Fortune 500 companies including AOL, MCI, DigitalNet, Verisign, Network Solutions and Verizon Business.

"Jayna has built a strong reputation within the tech PR industry for providing strategic counsel and delivering tangible results for clients," said Evan Weisel, Principal and Co-Founder of Welz & Weisel Communications. “We are pleased to add such a talented and well-respected PR executive to our management team and believe she will have an immediate impact on our organization. Welz & Weisel Communications is experiencing phenomenal growth and we are making significant investments to attract respected senior level talent to ensure that we consistently deliver the strategy and results that our clients expect."

Most recently, Kliner has been providing strategic PR consulting to some of the DC-area’s leading technology brands. Prior to consulting, she was senior communications manager at AOL, where she successfully planned and executed a variety of public relations campaigns for key AOL Web-based products and initiatives including AOL’s AIM Pro, Open AIM and developer program, as well as AOL’s wireless businesses. While at AOL, she also represented AOL’s emerging and mobile technology efforts at CES, CTIA and other internationally acclaimed technology tradeshows for maximum media exposure.

Prior to AOL, she was director of marketing and public relations at Windward Consulting Group, a premier operational management consulting and systems engineering firm. There, Kliner was responsible for ensuring the overall mission, objectives and key messages were accurately, effectively and consistently communicated to target audiences in all marketing programs, including media relations, collateral, customer communications and events.

Kliner began her career at LCI Communications and provided communications support through its corporate merger with Qwest Communications. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, where she graduated Cum Laude.

Welz & Weisel Communications is focused on creating proactive, ongoing public relations campaigns that yield measurable results for clients in the business-to-business and business-to-government high-technology marketplaces. The firm helps launch, build and sustain PR programs for both privately-held and publicly-traded companies. The Welz & Weisel Communications team is aggressive, strategic and proactive, ensuring its clients achieve business goals and capture market visibility and market share. For more information, visit www.w2comm.com or call 703-218-3555.