Bio

Judy Welage is a seasoned, award-winning communications professional with more than 20 years of experience in consumer, healthcare and nonprofit media.

Known for her passion and relentlessness, Judy has a long track record of securing media coverage for her clients.  During her career she has represented several leading companies and non-profit organizations, including Allergan, American Academy of Dermatology, Celegene, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, City of Hope, ConvaTec, CSL Behring, Genentech, Genzyme, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Rosecrance Drug & Alcohol Addiction Center. Additionally, she has worked on education programs with such celebrities as Hank Aaron, Deepak Chopra, Mark Spitz, Terry Francona, Diana Nyad, Andie MacDowell, Caroline Rhea, Rosario Dawson, Scott Foley, and Bill and Guiliana Rancic.

Most recently she was vice president of media at the Zeno Group and Weber Shandwick.  Prior to that she was senior media manager at Fleishman Hillard International Communications where she represented several non-profit organizations, most notably the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  During the five years she worked on the Komen account, she oversaw the media strategy for several award-winning programs and fundraising events, including the Pony Express Relay and On The Way to the Cure The Komen College Tour, which won a Holmes Report Gold Sabre Award, a PRSA Silver Anvil Award and a PRSA-NY Big Apple Award.