Lee Esposito Associates

About Lee Esposito Associates

Since 1991, Lee Esposito Associates (LEA) has generated media coverage worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for our clients in the food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods industries, as well as clients that provide long-term health care, senior housing, and elder care services.

Our dedicated, goal-oriented team combines expertise, longtime inside industry knowledge, deep experience, and excellent communications skills with an unbeatable track record of placing national stories and executive opinion articles for clients. LEA is central Ohio's most reliable source for national, regional, and local media coverage.

Lee Esposito, Principal
Lee Esposito has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, communications, and media relations. He worked for regionally based public relations firms specializing in producing marketing communications materials and generating local, regional, and national media coverage for their clients, as well as for the marketing departments of local corporations, before starting his own firm in 1991.

Janet Cooper, Marketing Communications Counsel
Janet Cooper has served as media and public relations director for one of the largest family-owned businesses in the country, shepherding it from private company to publicly held entity. Her long career with large advertising firms, corporations, and charitable organizations has emphasized marketing issues management, crisis communication, and media training. She received a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for public service programming in conjunction with KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona.

Kelly Knuth, Media Relations Counsel
Kelly Knuth has ghostwritten hundreds of articles for clients in the food and professional services industries. Prior to working with Lee Esposito Associates in 1998, she created, published, edited, and wrote for a pop-culture magazine and taught university-level English. Her wide experience also includes advertising, graphic design, Web site development, and communications for small businesses and not-for-profit clients.

Brittany Hawk, Operations Manager
Before joining Lee Esposito Associates, Capital University graduate Brittany Hawk put her degree in business management and marketing to work first as a leasing consultant and property manager, and later as a customer service specialist at a multinational financial services corporation. She volunteers her time with local art and music scenes both at live events and through social networking outlets.