Team

Melinda Morgan Kartsonis, APR – President, Agency Principal

Spend 10 minutes with Melinda Morgan Kartsonis and you'll realize why Morgan Marketing has achieved the success it enjoys today. Sitting at the helm, she leads the charge in building an agency that fosters creativity, communication and energy. From her personal design of the open offices, to the cheerleader roles she takes with her staff to her hands-on approach in creativity, it's no wonder why she is viewed as passionate, encouraging and straight forward.

Beginning more than 25 years ago working for a prestigious Michigan Avenue PR firm in Chicago, she spent the 1980s honing her craft working for various agencies. Melinda moved on to open Morgan Marketing & PR in 1991. Combining her attention to detail, her ability to develop relationships and her aggressive, results-oriented approach to marketing communications she has quickly built a client roster to be proud of.

Melinda has always been very active in the community, with an impressive list of board or committee positions for organizations such as City of Hope, St. Joseph Hospital, Orange County Performing Arts Center Business Partnership Alliance, California Restaurant Association of Orange County, American Institute of Wine and Food, the American Cancer Society Corporate Advisory Council, Women's Foodservice Forum and Les Dames d' Escoffier International. To share her passion for the PR industry, she has also been a faculty member at University of California at Irvine, Chapman University, California State University Fullerton, and California State University Long Beach, and she's served with the Orange County Public Relations Society of America.

She's received the Public Relations Society of America Distinguished Service Award, been included with Orange Coast magazine's “Hot 11” in its Power of PR issue, and been named the Orange County's Business Journal's “Top Businesswoman” – many times. She has also received awards from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Orange County's Finest) and American Lung Association (Volunteer of the Year).

So what makes Melinda tick? She requires Think Tank time- quiet time alone behind the wheel of her car formulating the next big splash.

 

Pat Harriman – Account Supervisor

If content is king, then Pat is the queen of content creation. She began her career as a newspaper reporter and also spent time as a technical writer, but it was not until she moved to California in 1990 that she discovered her true passion – public relations. Her reporter’s nose for news has served her clients well, resulting in coverage in major daily newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Investor’s Business Daily, and important trade publications, as well as guest appearances on local television shows and radio programs. Her expertise includes managing PR activities for privately-held and publicly-traded companies, from both the agency and corporate sides of the desk, in a variety of industries, including consumer electronics, high technology, telecommunications, and franchising.

At Morgan Marketing & PR, Pat provides strategic counsel, planning and development, implementing traditional and social media outreach programs for clients. Pat and her husband love the local dining scene in Orange County, frequenting their favorite restaurants and are always on the look-out for new dining adventures. In her free time, she enjoys watching sports, reading, and taking walks, but most of all, she loves to shop. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Texas at Dallas (Go Longhorns!) and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Redlands.

 

Kristin Proctor – Account Executive

A love of the water and the always sunny weather keeps this native Californian rooted in SoCal, along with her quick wit and outgoing personality, she brings widespread public relations and marketing experience in the lifestyle, consumer technology, E-commerce, and non-profit industries.

No stranger to the fast pace and dynamic nature of the agency work-style, Kristin has helped her clients remain at the forefront of both traditional and new media through aggressive implementation of public relations strategies and strong media relations efforts. Always making it a point to exhaust every news angle imaginable to maximize the marketing potential of each promotional opportunity, Kristin has had great success securing coverage on both regional and national levels.

At Morgan Marketing, Kristin spends much of her time building media relationships on behalf of agency clients. She is enthusiastic about working with the press and communicating her client’s exciting news, whether it’s promoting a fresh new cocktail or launching a brand campaign, Kristin is all about keeping the media interested and informed.

Kristin graduated from Cal State University, Fullerton with a B.A. in Public Relations and currently resides in Newport Beach. In her free time you can find her at concerts, baseball games, or on the soccer field. Her family and friends would describe her as a “fun-loving, directionally-challenged, music-obsessed, literature-appreciating, sports-nut, food-fanatic” type of girl.