Phil Gomes
Phil Gomes serves as a senior vice president with Edelman Digital, working from the agency’s headquarters in Chicago, IL.
Phil is responsible for crafting the online engagement policies and standards for the agency and its clients, as well as serving as an educator and counselor with regard to online communities. This expertise rolls up into business-focused social media immersion programs that educate account teams and their clients in online community principles, delivering the ability to integrate digital thinking in to day-to-day work.
While at Edelman, Phil has counseled clients within the technology, automotive, transportation, consumer packaged goods and mobile communications sectors. In this role, Phil challenges teams and companies to engage with online communities and deliver journalistic-, educational-, conversation- and entertainment-quality content.
During his near-decade in Silicon Valley prior to joining Edelman, Phil worked with such innovative companies as SRI International, Adaptec, Cornice, Matrix Semiconductor and Hitachi Semiconductor. Phil’s work helped guide clients to win the Technology Pioneers Programme Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Twice.
Phil enjoys wide industry recognition as an expert on the intersection of emerging media technologies and corporate communications. As a speaker on this topic, Phil has presented to the Forbes Forum For Dynamic Mid-Sized Companies, the Public Relations Society Of America, International Association of Business Communicators and the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications, to name a few. Phil is also considered by most participants in the public relations profession to be the first in the field to start a blog—August 2001.
Phil earned a BA in communications from Saint Mary’s College of California. He is also founding fellow for the Society for New Communications Research, launched in November 2005, and was conferred an award of merit for his corporate blog work for dotMobi in November 2007
Phil is responsible for crafting the online engagement policies and standards for the agency and its clients, as well as serving as an educator and counselor with regard to online communities. This expertise rolls up into business-focused social media immersion programs that educate account teams and their clients in online community principles, delivering the ability to integrate digital thinking in to day-to-day work.
While at Edelman, Phil has counseled clients within the technology, automotive, transportation, consumer packaged goods and mobile communications sectors. In this role, Phil challenges teams and companies to engage with online communities and deliver journalistic-, educational-, conversation- and entertainment-quality content.
During his near-decade in Silicon Valley prior to joining Edelman, Phil worked with such innovative companies as SRI International, Adaptec, Cornice, Matrix Semiconductor and Hitachi Semiconductor. Phil’s work helped guide clients to win the Technology Pioneers Programme Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Twice.
Phil enjoys wide industry recognition as an expert on the intersection of emerging media technologies and corporate communications. As a speaker on this topic, Phil has presented to the Forbes Forum For Dynamic Mid-Sized Companies, the Public Relations Society Of America, International Association of Business Communicators and the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications, to name a few. Phil is also considered by most participants in the public relations profession to be the first in the field to start a blog—August 2001.
Phil earned a BA in communications from Saint Mary’s College of California. He is also founding fellow for the Society for New Communications Research, launched in November 2005, and was conferred an award of merit for his corporate blog work for dotMobi in November 2007