CEO Dick Grove, whose background includes top posts for such companies as Burson-Marsteller, ITT and Itel, formed his own agency in 1997 with the idea that PR firms should be held to an accountable method of compensation and thus share in the financial risk of the client. Companies from a variety of industries have signed on for this unique agency model, which says that clients should pay first and foremost for media placement results -- not for the hours spent "trying" for those elusive hits.

Based in Kansas City, Mo., INK employs a network of media relations specialists and account service executives -- nearly all senior-level professionals with newsroom experience and/or client-side experience -- throughout the U.S. and Europe. Because most of our employee network works virtually, we are able to save costs on overhead and take the risk of relying on results-based compensation. We are also able to recruit some of the world's best former business journalists and most seasoned PR professionals who are attracted to the flexibility of working from a home or remote office or resist a more traditional, corporate agency structure. Want proof? See some of the pedigrees of INK's staff below.

Dick Grove
Chief Executive Officer

Cindy West
Vice President, Director of Operations

Ryan Gerding
Vice President, Director of Client Services

Rob Walch
Director of New Media

Nick Kettles
International Director of Media Relations

Jennifer Johnson Avril
Account Director

Sean Mahoney
Account Director

Carley McGinnis
Account Servies Coordinator

Janet Roberts
Media Representative

Meghan Whelan
Client Services

Drew Avril
New York

Bob Cullinan
San Francisco

Jasmine Ee
Singapore

John Goodman
New York

Emily Hampton
United Kingdom

Gary Hanauer
San Francisco

Alicia Martinez
New Jersey

Bill McAndrew
New York

John Pilmer
Utah

Jeff Rutherford
Massachusetts

Rob Wheat
Kansas City