Karen DeMarco

DeMarco is a strategic communications and marketing executive with more than 20 years experience within entertainment, music, consumer lifestyle, emerging media and technology sectors. Her career spans both agency and client side expertise, including roles as Vice President Corporate Communications for Zazzle, Senior Director Corporate Communications for AOL Music and Entertainment, and Executive Director of mPRm Public Relations.

DeMarco started her career in traditional entertainment and made the transition to emerging media just prior to the tech boom. She has a successful track record of developing and managing strategic, results-oriented global consumer and corporate public relations programs, brand strategy, company/product launches and special events, as well as traditional and social media marketing and promotional programs.

She has proven relationships with essential domestic and international emerging media analysts, trade, business, consumer and lifestyle press in all forms of media. A board member of the Entertainment Publicists Professional Society (EPPS), she regularly produces and moderates industry panels and has been a guest speaker at the UCLA Extension Music and Entertainment program. She is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) and others.