Nina Bondarook has been helping clients of all sizes meet their business objectives through cost-effective public relations and integrated marketing communications for more than 20 years. Her background as an award-winning journalist enables her to quickly translate even the most complex information into compelling stories and easy-to-understand messages that resonate with target audiences, drive specific behaviors, and help companies compete and thrive.
Bondarook was a director, senior vice president and general manager with four California agencies: Fleishman-Hillard, The Weber Group, NRW and McQuerter Group, where she opened and managed offices, teams and clients on several continents, and budgets as large as $4.5 million. In Seattle, she managed an eight-person team at Waggener Edstrom, which supported corporate communications at Microsoft. And when she lived in Denver, she specialized in health care, and was one of the first consultants in the area to provide services targeting ethnic audiences.
An Internet pioneer, Bondarook created The Seattle Times Extra, the northwest newspaper’s first on-line service. She also was director of on-line business development and helped publish the world’s first monthly CD-Rom news magazine at Medio Multimedia in Redmond, Wash.
Bondarook has served on the boards of IntraCom Corp. and Slim Devices Inc. in Silicon Valley, The Catamount Institute in Colorado, and the American Cancer Society in Denver. She also is a past president and treasurer of Colorado and Washington chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, is a member of the National Federation of Press Women and the Association of Women in Communications, and is a volunteer with the Taproot Foundation.
She has a Master’s in Applied Communication from the University of Denver, a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Arizona State University, and studied in the former Soviet Union, England, and France.