Bonnie Lieb, Founder and President
Bonnie started The Sage Agency in 2003 and has spent the last few years building an exciting business that provides public relations and marketing communications services to a growing list of clients. Through an experienced network of consultants, the agency serves both national brands like Time Warner Cable and Marriott as well as smaller start-up businesses like HyperOffice.

Prior to founding Sage, Bonnie was a senior vice president in Ketchum's Washington, D.C. office. Bonnie started the technology practice there in 1997, and grew the business over the next five years by adding clients like AMS, PeopleSoft, Deloitte Consulting and SAS. She brings to her clients 20 years of high tech, business-to-business marketing communications and public relations experience.

She has managed results-driven programs for leading brands including IBM, PeopleSoft Education & Government, Cingular Wireless, Visa U.S.A., MCI, AMS, Certainteed, DuPont, Samsung, BEA and Novell. The work has resulted in award-winning programs for three of these clients.

Prior to joining Ketchum, Bonnie was director of public relations at The Garfield Group, a high-tech marketing communications agency. Her affiliation with Ketchum goes beyond her position in Washington. Before joining The Garfield Group, she spent five years at the Philadelphia office of Ketchum, where she was an account supervisor working on a variety of high-tech and business-to-business accounts.

Other highlights in her career include corporate marketing positions with National Software Testing Laboratories and QVC Network. A graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa., Bonnie holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in marketing.

E-mail Bonnie at bonnie@sageagency.com

Charles H. Dolan, Jr., Managing Director
Chuck brings extensive public affairs and government relations experience to Sage. Recently a senior vice president at Ketchum, his clients included Cingular, Cox Communications, Clorox, Delta Airlines, FedEx, Heinz, IBM, PeopleSoft, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. He provided senior counsel to Ketchum clients worldwide in every major practice area including corporate, health care, technology, and food and nutrition.

He provides strategic communications advice, organizes media events and creates education programs. He coordinates these efforts with government relations and communications executives and develops and manages grassroots coalitions on international, federal, state and local issues.

He recently served as a Senior Communications consultant to the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He was a member of the Clinton for President Exploratory Committee and served as the state chairman of the Virginia Clinton-Gore campaigns in 1992 and 1996. He is the former executive director of the Democratic Governors' Association, where for seven years he participated in the election and re-election of Democratic governors in all fifty states.

He has been a guest political analyst for the BBC, C-Span, PBS, MSNBC, Fox News and CNN. Mr. Dolan was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Advisors. He is an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. He also serves on the Executive Advisory Committee for the Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowships at the College of William and Mary.

Mr. Dolan served as the Vice-Chairman of the Presidentially appointed United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. The seven-member Commission is a bipartisan panel established by the Congress to advise the President, the Secretary of State, and the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs on press and information activities of U.S. missions abroad, and the government’s international radio and television operations. He is currently a member of the Public Diplomacy Council and has been a guest speaker on the topic of Public Diplomacy at the Salzburg Seminar.

Prior to his work with the Democratic Governors’ Association, Mr. Dolan served as a special assistant to the American Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Ireland. He also worked for three years as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Congress with responsibility for Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice, Commerce and Foreign Operations.

Mr. Dolan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where he received an M.P.A. in Government and Business.

E-mail Chuck at chuck@sageagency.com

Sinikka Mondini, Senior Director
Sinikka also comes from the Ketchum Washington, D.C. office where she was an account supervisor in the Corporate/Social Marketing practice. Her duties included managing media efforts to national, local and trade media, the launch of PSAs, VNRs/ANRs and B-roll, production of literature and materials, trade show exposure and third-party alliances for clients such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, Dow Chemical and The College Board, to name a few.

Sinikka's previous experience includes being communication manager at the Wireless Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Cellular Telecommunication & Internet Association. Her duties at the Foundation included promoting the three core Foundation programs to national and local media, coordinating national media events, serving as spokesperson at local events and serving as liaison with congressional offices to gain Member of Congress support of Foundation activities.

Sinikka holds a bachelor's degree in public communications and a minor in women's studies from American University.

E-mail Sinikka at sinikka@sageagency.com

Allison Bozniak, Senior Director
Allison Bozniak has created strategic media and messaging campaigns for a diverse range of clients. Most recently these clients have included the Electronic Industries Alliance, the Internet Security Alliance, the Terrorism Research Center, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and the NASDAQ listed satellite company, PanAmSat.

Prior to starting her own PR company and teaming with the Sage Agency, Allison managed a number of high-profile accounts through the high-tech PR firm, The Merritt Group, working successfully to gain visibility for the local IT defense contractor, CACI International. She also managed public relations efforts for Israeli-based Lightscape, Inc., and the network performance firm Visual Networks, Inc. Prior to joining Merritt Group, Allison developed marketing strategies for the cyber-security firm, iDEFENSE in their start-up phase.

Allison's international experience includes working for the London Sunday Times, the World Bank's External Affairs Office and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office. She also participated in a year-long study appointment to the German Parliament where she worked for the Green Party and researched comparative political systems at the University of Bonn.

Allison holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Public Policy from Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

E-mail Allison at allison@sageagency.com

Charlotte Pelliccia, Senior Director
In her role at Sage, Charlotte brings a range of marketing and corporate communications services to firms serving the technology, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing industries. Previously, Charlotte was a managing director with Galen Capital Group, a merchant banking firm dedicated to the healthcare industry. In that position she provided corporate communications and public relations services to Galen and the firm’s clients. Before Galen, Charlotte was senior vice president of marketing at netDecide, a wealth management software provider targeting large financial institutions, where she was responsible for all public relations, analyst relations, web site development, collateral, events, direct mail, partner marketing, sales support and user group programs. She joined netDecide from FitzGerald Communications where, as senior vice president of the Washington, D.C. office, she contributed to the four-fold growth of the office and provided strategic planning, corporate positioning and media strategy for FitzGerald’s high-technology clients. Prior to FitzGerald, Charlotte served as director of corporate communications for Manugistics, a supply chain management software company.

Additional high-technology communications experience includes senior-level roles at Oracle Corporation and Copithorne & Bellows in San Francisco, servicing clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Wells Fargo Bank, Baan, VeriFone, Checkpoint, and NeXT Software.

Charlotte serves on the Board of Directors for Women in Technology (WIT) and is the Chair of the Communications Committee. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association. She was a founding member of the Potomac Chapter of Women in Technology International (WITI), and an editorial board member of Potomac Tech Journal. She has an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s degree with High Distinction from the University of Virginia.

E-mail Charlotte at charlotte@sageagency.com

The Sage Team
Our strategy is to build and leverage a network of senior, experienced people to service our clients. Everyone has big agency experience.

They include:

• Senior Strategists
• Senior Media Specialists
• Writers
• Public Affairs/Government Relations Specialist
• Web Designer/Graphic Artist