Laura Grimmer, President and CEO

As a communications strategist with nearly 20 years' experience, Laura's clients have included industry-defining companies like USinternetworking; leading services firms such as Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers; and enterprise software solutions leaders like CDC Software (NASDAQ: CHINA), Manugistics (NASDAQ: MANU), MAPICS (NASDAQ: MAPE) and Microsoft Great Plains.

She works closely with every Articulate client to define corporate messages and ensure the programs clearly align with business objectives. She is an active resource for every team and client for ongoing or special projects.

In addition, Laura also taps her wide network of best-of-breed service providers to deliver various counsel as needed, from investor relations to crisis communications and presentation training.

Laura leverages her experience for clients as a journalist, including positions as a reporter and senior editor with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. She honed her expertise in technology at a Boston-based mid-sized PR firm in the 1990s, opening and running its Washington, D.C., and New York offices before launching Articulate in 2001.

Laura earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina.

Audra Tiner, Partner

Audra is a Partner at Articulate and has spent more than 13 years working with clients in the financial services and technology sector. She taps her deep industry knowledge to help her clients create consistent corporate messaging, devise global strategy and execute media, analyst, internal communications and marketing campaigns. Throughout her career, Audra has worked closely with senior executives at brand names such as Intel and Thomson Reuters, and market-defining players in the financial services and technology space including Portware, Sapient Global Markets, Detica and FIX Protocol Limited.

PR SourceCode has named Audra a Top Tech Communicator – a distinction designed to recognize the 30 best technology PR practitioners in the U.S., determined by editorial staff from more than 300 IT publications. Audra developed her expertise earlier in her career with roles at SeeBeyond (now Oracle), Progress Software and Cambridge Technology Group. She holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Brandeis University. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors at LSA Family Health Services in New York, NY.

Jeanette Volpi, Vice President

Jeanette is a Vice President at Articulate with more than 13 years of experience in external and internal communications including media relations, executive and M&A communications, crisis management, internal communications and marketing programs supporting a range of corporate and consumer financial businesses. She previously served as Public Relations Director at Thomson Reuters, where she ran global external communications for its Investment & Advisory business covering the investment management, investment banking, wealth management and public relations and investor relations industries.

Jeanette spent the majority of her career at Citigroup in a variety of communications roles across corporate, consumer banking, wealth management and investment banking based in both New York and London. She served as Vice President and chief spokesperson for Global Markets, Citigroup’s underwriting, sales and trading, and distribution business for corporations, governments and institutional and retail investors, and also ran public relations for Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services business across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. She previously held roles in Citigroup’s consumer bank and corporate headquarters, where she managed communications programs for Citi Cards and Citigroup’s other consumer businesses, including Citibank retail banking, CitiFinancial community lending and CitiMortgage.

Jeanette spent her early career in public relations positions at the American Stock Exchange. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Boston University.

Megan Garnett Coyle

Megan brings a solid background in technology public relations to Articulate, having worked with a variety of technology vendors in various market segments, including wireless, security, telecommunications and enterprise software and hardware.

Megan has an excellent familiarization with the trade media, and has worked extensively with reporters in vertical markets, including government, security, energy, defense and financial services.

She is responsible for the management and execution of all public relations programs, with an emphasis on driving media results.

Megan currently drives editorial outreach, speaking, awards and media and analyst relations for several technology clients. Recent projects include DataSynapse's application-virtualization campaign, Antenna Software's enterprise mobility launch and VMLogix's LabManager product debut and media saturation program.

Prior to joining Articulate in April 2004, Megan began her career at Fusion Public Relations, steering day-to-day activities for MeshNetworks, a wireless broadband networking company (acquired by Oracle in late 2005), and PanAmSat (now called Intelsat), a global satellite communications firm.

Megan graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a bachelor's degree in journalism.