Meet the hands behind the fan.

Kathleen Kenney Lucente
Founder and President

Kathleen Kenney Lucente is a proven marketing and communications expert with over 18 years of experience in emerging technologies, financial services, women's consumer products and services and Austin’s entertainment and music industry. Kathleen’s clients know her as a seasoned expert and strategist as well as a hard worker who rolls up her sleeves to make it all happen. Her client work includes IBM, IBM Research, JPMorganChase, JPMorgan Asia Pacific, Motorola, AMS, MommyMixer, Dish-a-licious, Dream Jobs Inc, CSC, Hypernix, LivePerson, FEDEX, TIVOLI, Price Waterhouse, Bell Atlantic, Viewpoint, Total Mommy Fitness, Etcetera, The Connaught Group, Per Se, Carlisle Collection and more.

Her 18 years’ in agency and corporate public relations and marketing experience include work both domestically based out of NYC and Boston and internationally based out of Hong Kong. Her corporate experience includes positions as JPMorgan's Vice President and Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications for Asia Pacific, Vice President and Director of Marketing and Communications for JPMorganChase's LabMorgan, Manager of Public Relations for IBM Research Worldwide, and Senior Manager of Emerging Technology Public Relations for IBM's Personal Systems Group.

Kathleen began her career as a journalist at Cahners Reed Elsevier, and her agency tenure includes work in the New York offices of Ketchum Public Relations and PepperCom, as well as the Cambridge, MA-based office of Cunningham Communications Inc. In NYC, Asia and Austin, Kathleen is recognized by reporters as a PR person who truly understands the needs of the press. Within three years in Hong Kong, she had turned a meek, unresponsive press team into the top recognized investment banking PR team in Asia—as noted by reporters at Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and the top Asia Pacific financial trade magazine, FinanceAsia.

Time and time again, Kathleen has successfully weathered PR crises for her clients, keeping their reputations intact during challenging situations including 9-11. Kathleen was responsible for drafting the most recent crisis management document for JPMorganChase after managing the SARS scare in Hong Kong. In addition, her public relations leadership of Ketchum's American Management Systems account resulted in the first ever Business-to-Business Anvil Award. Her work was recognized with the Big Apple Award and CIPRA Award for the best consumer technology product launch for Hypernix's Gooey Consumer Chat Application.

Today she has a stellar team of experienced media relations experts who work with her to regularly secure brand and image-enhancing press coverage nationwide - mapping to the specific business goals of each client.

Kathleen actively mentors many young people studying to enter the PR, marketing and advertising arena and is a part-time lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin. Kathleen is also an invited lecturer with the Austin Music Foundation and plays an active role in helping Austin musicians evaluate their PR and marketing efforts. When she’s not working, by day she enjoys exploring Austin’s abundance of family friendly events or hiking in Hill Country with her husband and two children. By night you can find her scouting out the latest culinary wonders, wine tastings and live music in town.