GEORGIANA FRANCISCO -  

has more than 25 years of public relations, marketing, and newsletter promotional experience, 10 of which were in the travel and hospitality industries. She has provided counsel for some of the leading consumer product companies in the world, including Best Foods, Paramount Communications, Sheraton, Westin, Nikko and Four Seasons hotel corporations and Tourism for the State of Pennsylvania.

A former White House speechwriter, Georgiana previously served as vice president and director of public Relations for Gillespie, a $276-million communications company, designing PR strategies for such companies as Cellular One and Just Born, Inc., the makers of megabrands Hot Tamales, Mike & Ikes, and Peeps, for whom she designed the 1998 National Silver Anvil Award (the “Oscar” of the PR industry).

In addition to her promotional experience, she is a travel and cultural journalist in the state of New Jersey.