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Susan MacTavish Best

Susan MacTavish Best has worked extensively with European and North American companies providing them with strategic public relations counsel.

Headline: Innocent Bystander
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.bestpr.net
Industries: Food and Drink, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Travel
Skills: Business, Management, Marketing, Public Relations
Location: San Francisco
Groups: BASES, Seedcamp
Interested in: Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: digital media, europe, Journalism, marketing, media, new media, pr, press, public relations, Running, scotland
Schools: Hamilton College

FEATURED STARTUP

Best Public Relations

Best Public Relations Best Public Relations

Boutique PR agency

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Profitable

FULL BIO

Susan MacTavish Best has worked extensively with European and North American companies providing them with strategic public relations counsel. Susan started Best Public Relations in 1998 and has partnered with a diverse portfolio of clients during this time including craigslist, Esurance, Lulu, Playfish, LaLa, Smugmug, MainStreet.com, and Olivia Cruises and Resorts. (Internet, literary, personal finance, travel, food and beverage, technology, and consumer companies).

Susan sits on the advisory board of the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. She is on the advisory board of the Diabetes and Wellness Foundation, a national non-profit that helps diabetics lead healthy lives. Susan is also on the advisory board of YouNoodle.

A single-malt and haggis fan, Susan grew up in St. Andrews, Scotland. During off hours, Susan is usually found training for a marathon on Mt. Tamalpais or cooking up a storm.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Best Public Relations
Position: Founder
Time period: January 1998 - Present

EDUCATION

University: Hamilton College
Degree: History, BA

Susan's Startups (1)

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Susan is Following (38)

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  • Bonobos

    Bonobos are pants that solve problems. They're better fitting, better looking, better pants.

  • Tapulous, Inc.

    Tapulous is a Palo Alto-based company that makes iPhone applications with over 6 million users and the #1 game on the iPhone App Store for 2008.

  • Bebo

    Bebo rocks!

  • Private Facts

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Susan's Contacts (156)

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  • Vlad Lodzinski

    Film Studies & Classical Civilisation graduate, currently working as Director, Content at LP33.

  • Rick Mathieu

    Civil Engineering graduate from University of Delaware, M.S and Ph.D. degrees from University of Virginia. 27 years of teaching experience, now at James Madison University.