Bill Blase
Senior Counsel
Media relations and the Americas
Prior to launching his business communications' career, Bill served as a print and broadcast reporter and editor for United Press International, (UPI) as well as a number of other major metropolitan media outlets. The recipient of two Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (Connecticut Chapter), he was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
At UPI, Bill's print and broadcast dispatches were carried around the world. His byline appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, and The Boston Globe, among others.
Before serving as vice president of corporate communications at Scudder, Stevens & Clark (today Deutsche Asset Management), Bill served as the chief corporate spokesman for United Technologies Corporation (UTC), a Fortune 15 company whose holdings include Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Otis, and Carrier Corporation. While at UTC, Bill's responsibilities included day-to-day management of the company's executive presentation and media training programs as well as responsibility for producing and directing a weekly video news programme.
Bill has lectured at the Investment Company Institute on the "Role of Media Relations and Advertising in the Marketing Mix." He has also been interviewed by print and broadcast media, including, Dow Jones, CNBC, CNN and The Wall Street Journal about the growing importance of strategic, high impact media relations programs to financial service firms.
He is an active member of the Financial Communications Society, the Foreign Press Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists and is an adjunct professor for the graduate public relations program at New York University.
Bill served in the US Army Reserve and graduated near the top of his class at the US Army Drill Sergeant Academy.
