Bryan Scanlon
President
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Bryan Scanlon has an outstanding track record of building visibility for the Agency’s clients, providing a combination of sound strategic guidance and hands-on help in the field. Scanlon has taken several little-known technology providers from start-up to prominence and market leadership, including Red Hat, Netezza, AXENT Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Concord Communications (now C-A), CipherTrust (now Secure Computing), SpringSource and webMethods (now Software AG).
Scanlon has more than 15 years of communications experience and has been with Schwartz since 1997. He has helped steer clients through more than two dozen initial public offerings and scores of acquisitions. After establishing and growing the firm’s extensive information security practice, he became General Manager of Schwartz’s San Francisco office, and was named president in 2009.
Prior to Schwartz, Scanlon was with another PR agency, where he managed strategic and day-to-day media and analyst relations for CompuCom Systems and divisions of Banyan Systems, Inc. He has produced marketing collateral for leading technology companies and ghost written dozens of articles for senior executives in some of the industry’s most technical publications, including Network World and CNET. As a freelance writer and photographer, Scanlon’s work has appeared in Computerworld, among other publications. He has won several top PR awards, including a Gold CIPRA and Bronze Anvil from the Public Relations Society of America.
Scanlon holds a B.F.A. degree in writing from Johnson State College and an M.A. degree in English from Western Michigan University, where he also taught composition and journalism.
Twitter: @bkscanlon
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Bryan Scanlon
