Kristin Gabriel has more than 25 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations and marketing, and most recently about eight years in search engine optimization, social media and online marketing. Founder of MarCom New Media, a division of MarCom Associates, Gabriel is a leading strategist in search marketing.

Offering extensive experience designing and creating start-up public relations campaigns with high-technology companies, Kristin has implemented numerous public relations and SEO campaigns with initial target media and expanding media coverage to new markets. She has been involved in all levels of management to implement overall company marketing communications strategies, including developing long term goals and devising and implementing procedures and tactics to disseminate corporate, investor, product, marketing and trade show news.

Her expertise includes a wide range of product and service categories including the high-tech and computer industry (utilities, security, digital imaging software and the Internet,) travel,/hospitality, entertainment, the senior market, fashion, retail, the arts, beauty/cosmetics, restaurants, food products, real estate, finance, automotive and consumer products/services.

Gabriel's most recent work allows her to provide advice and consult with a range of clients, from small businesses to executive and marketing communications staffs, on strategies to develop and execute integrated traditional and online marketing and social media campaigns. Recent clients and projects include The Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormones (www.thewileyprotocol.com), The Interface Financial Group, North America�s largest alternative funding source for small business, providing short-term financial resources including invoice factoring (www.ifgnetwork.com), The Entertainment Connection schools (www.thefilm-connection.com, www.recordingconneciton.com, and www.radioconnection.com), ExpenseWatch (www.expensewatch.com) for complete control over expenses, Jewels for Charity (www.jewelsforcharity.com), and more.

Before starting her own consulting business, MarCom Associates, in June of 1998, Gabriel served in executive management positions with leading advertising and public relations firms in both New York and Los Angeles, including N.W. Ayer International, William Esty, The Rowland Company and Daniel J. Edelman. She has managed national campaigns for corporate clients such as iolo Technologies, Inc., Panda Software U.S., Symantec Corporation, MetaTools Software, Chesebrough-Pond's, Union Carbide's Eveready Batteries, Honda Motorcycles, The Southern California Psychiatric Society, Mercantile National Bank and Gilda Marx Industries. Once she relocated to Los Angeles in 1981, she became the public relations director at LOV&B advertising, where her clients included Merle Norman Cosmetics, MJB Company, Dollar Rent-A-Car, Loves Barbecue Restaurants, Princess Cruises Enterprises and Urban West Communities.

A graduate of Mills College, California, Gabriel received her BA degree in broadcast communications with a minor in art history. She is a member of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC.) Gabriel lives in West Hollywood, California and enjoys spending her free time either writing, or outdoors hiking with her Labradors, Sadie and Cocoa.