Friday, October 12, 2007

Robbie Vorhaus is a media and communications strategist for Fortune 500 and emerging businesses worldwide, providing senior and executive level counsel, strategy, and support in the area of corporate communications, crisis and reputation management, public relations policy and initiatives, along with media and crisis training.

For ten years, Mr. Vorhaus was the president and chief executive officer of Vorhaus & Company, Inc., an award winning, New York based communications and public relations firm, representing leading companies such as Unilever, H.J. Heinz, General Motors, Enel SpA, Weight Watchers, Zipcar, and Domino’s Pizza.

Mr. Vorhaus is a regular contributor on CNN and appears frequently as a commentator on public opinion and current events in other major media including ABC News, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

In October 1989, Mr. Vorhaus left the CBS Broadcast Group to launch Vorhaus Communications, Inc. At CBS Television and CBS News he held various jobs in corporate communications, advertising, and promotion and for several years was a headline producer for the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.”

Mr. Vorhaus began his professional career as a photojournalist at a suburban Philadelphia newspaper, the Bucks County Courier Times. Mr. Vorhaus later moved to radio, working in Des Moines, Iowa, for two years at KRNT/KRNQ. Later, moving to Kansas City, Missouri, he was the entertainment editor for WDAF TV (NBC) and KY102 radio for another two years.

Mr. Vorhaus lives in Sag Harbor, New York, with his wife and their two children. He is currently writing his new book, The Controlling Idea, along with enjoying time in his vegetable garden and clamming in knee-deep water.