Randy Pitzer

Randy Pitzer is the managing director of Porter Novelli’s Chicago office.  At Porter Novelli, he is responsible for all management, operational and client relations in the office serving the greater Chicago and Midwest areas.  Some of the accounts he works on include BrainLAB, Harman, Manhattan Associates, McDonalds, Monster.com, and Roche.  He came to Porter Novelli from Edelman’s Corporate Practice where he was the Enterprise Technology Sector lead in Edelman’s Global Technology Practice and leaded Edelman’s b-to-b practice globally.  Pitzer brings a strong mix of public relations, communications and marketing experience on both the corporate side and the agency side to Edelman. He has more than 25 years of experience, principally with technology companies and practices. Pitzer came to Edelman after more than 12 years in various corporate positions. Most recently he was vice president of corporate communications at Universal Access, Inc., a leading provider of Internet infrastructure network services. Prior to Universal Access, Pitzer managed marketing and corporate communications for Mercantec, Inc. He also served as head of public relations for both Open Port Technology, Inc., and for Spyglass, Inc. Prior to Spyglass, he was head of corporate communications for SPSS. Pitzer has worked at two other leading public relations agencies in his career: Ketchum Public Relations in Los Angeles and Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations in Los Altos, Calif. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is a member of PRSA and BMA and a former member of IABC and NSPRSA.  He joined BMA/Chicago in 2001 and has served as a director for four years.