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Firm DNA - Andrew Komendantov
Andrew Komendantov, Executive Vice President, is the co-founder of Rockland Technical Services (RTS). His professional experience includes more than a decade leading Hill and Knowlton’s Financial Relations/Healthcare Practice and Senior Counselor positions in the Corporate/Financial practices of Manning Selvage & Lee and the Dilenschneider Group.
He brings to our clients more than 25 years of counseling and management expertise in all aspects of corporate communications and marketing, with a strong emphasis on financial, medical/healthcare, scientific, and technical issues. He also specializes in corporate positioning, marketing, crisis communications, and disclosure issues.
He has provided strategic counsel on corporate communications and positioning, advertising, and pre- and post-IPO disclosure issues to all levels of senior management. In the course of his work, he has developed crisis preparedness programs and product marketing plans, and planned and executed investor relations programs for newly public companies.
An accomplished writer, Mr. Komendantov has written more than 20 annual reports, spanning such industries as medical technology, financial services, and telecommunications. He has drafted numerous news releases, investor relations materials, press kits, corporate and product marketing materials, white papers, and advertising copy.
Fluent in Russian, he has translated a wide range of materials published in major European languages, for use by medical researchers, academics, attorneys and the business community.
He possesses extensive experience in emerging markets, having worked with Hill and Knowlton’s CEO to identify business opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and lectured on public relations and financial communications issues to professional audiences from CIS countries.
His clients have included financial services, public utilities, legal and academic institutions, telecommunications, and beverage industries.
He received his academic training in marine biology at the City College (CCNY) and The City University of New York (CUNY) and is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
