New York Media Strategies
About Us

KENNETH A. CHANDLER
CHAIRMAN

Kenneth A. Chandler is a senior media executive with experience on three continents.

He spent the majority of his career at The News Corporation in the United States, running newspaper properties for Rupert Murdoch. Among them: the New York Post, the Boston Herald and the National Star (now known as Star Magazine). He was also assigned to Murdoch’s Fox Television in 1993 to run the hugely profitable TV show “A Current Affair.”

Chandler began his newspaper career in his native England, rising from a trainee reporter on a weekly newspaper in London to working as a senior copy editor on Fleet Street’s major dailies. It was there he joined the Murdoch organization as an editor at The Sun, the largest-selling English language newspaper in the world.

His London career path was detoured for 15 months when he accepted a position in Singapore, helping launch a new English-language daily newspaper in the dynamic city-state. There he supervised a staff of Chinese, Malay and Indian journalists and put together a publication that was to receive numerous awards.

Chandler brings a wealth of global experience in:

• Traditionaland new media operations and attitudes.
• Crisis communications.
• Managing large groups of creative personnel.
• A keen interest in international developments.
• An understanding of consumer habits and interests.

Chandler and his wife Erika Schwartz, MD, live in Westchester County, N.Y. They have five children.

GEORGE K. REGAN, JR.
PRESIDENT

George K. Regan, Jr. of Quincy founded Regan Communications Group, Inc. in 1984. Regan Communications is a full-service public relations firm with unparalleled strengths in strategic planning, crisis communications, media relations, and government relations. In addition, the agency provides full marketing services including direct marketing, market research, development of collateral materials, and advertising.

Regan Communications’ clients include a variety of international, national, and local companies: New England Patriots, Bank ofAmerica, Biogen, Boston Celtics, Boston Harbor Hotel, Dunkin Donuts, Boston Herald, WEEI-Radio, New Balance Athletic Shoe, New England Revolution, Boston Magazine, Suffolk University, and the Thomas H. Lee Company.

Priorto opening his own public relations agency, George spent eleven years in the Office of Mayor Kevin H. White, the last ten as White’s press secretary and Director of Communication. He also served as a media consultant to President Carter, Sen. Maurice Udall and Sen. Henry Jackson.

George received a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Suffolk University and a Master of Science in public relations from Boston University.

As general manager and national media relations director, Nicole oversees national publicity for clients in every office as well as manages the New York office. Nicole has 10 years of television, writing and public relations experience, including at Eric Mower and Associates in Syracuse, NY where one of her public relations campaigns won a national award for "Best Publicity Campaign of 2002" by the League of American Communications Professionals. Nicole served as a news assignment editor and news producer at the NBC and FOX TV affiliates in Syracuse. Nicole has also been a contributing writer for several business, news, fitness and travel publications. Nicole earned a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She has worked at Regan Communications for 5 years, starting in the Boston office, before launching the Regan NYC branch and has garnered publicity in the many national outlets including The New York Times, Rachael Ray, Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business Network, Women’s Health Magazine, Modern Bride, Entrepreneur Magazine and USA Today.