About Green Machine PR
Green Machine PR offers distinctive communications solutions to hi-tech and green-tech companies and organizations. Principals Jo Lee and Pamela Ardizzone possess a combined 30 years experience in high tech, entertainment and nonprofit communications and bring an “in-house” approach to working with their clients.
Through Jo's and Pamela’s career travels, working for clients from San Francisco to New York, to South Africa, they found that companies were always hungry for the same thing that many times proved elusive: a PR team with the commitment, knowledge and perspective of an in-house staff. They founded Green Machine PR in 2005 to meet this universal client need using a potent combination of online and traditional marketing expertise and the media savvy honed in the trenches of the NY entertainment world.
Jo Lee brings with her 15 years of hi-tech experience having directed business development and corporate communications departments for international public companies such as VocalTec and World Online. She has also worked as a marketing and PR consultant for mid-size and startup companies such as MB Technologies whose product was recently ranked by InfoWorld as one of the top three Ajax platforms. Other clients include Mobile Voter, recently featured on Lehrer Newshour regarding their cell-phone based voter registration service, and the premiere softswitch developer BroadSoft.
As co-founder and director of CitizenSpeak.org, a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations, Jo also possesses an extensive knowledge of the online advocacy sector for nonprofits. Listed in the Wall Street Journal as a recommended online tool for social change, CitizenSpeak and its developer, George Hotelling, have won a number of prestigious awards including the Pizzigati Award (the nation’s top award for open source software in the public space) and a Webby Honoree Award. CitizenSpeak is a free and open source Drupal module.
Jo's clean-tech credentials include a board position on the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), the leading trade association for this sector in the northeast.
Pamela Ardizzone began her career in 1989 in the New York television business doing corporate communications for Turner Broadcasting System. It was there that she promoted cable networks CNN and TBS and helped launch the TNT network. Since then, she has worked with ABC soap opera stars, The Rugrats and Blue’s Clues at Nickelodeon and icon Robert Redford at Sundance Channel, among other television publicity stints. As a result of her efforts, Pamela’s clients have appeared in such high-profile media outlets as The New York Times, TV Guide, USA Today and in several segments on The Today Show and Good Morning America.
Since 1999, she has been applying her successful consumer-style PR tactics towards strengthening hi-tech companies such as leading online survey software maker Zoomerang; national award winning RI-based Web development firm Embolden Design; and influential nonprofit organizations which promote sustainability.