NATIONAL PR MOVES SOUTH OF THE BORDER
By Adnews Staff
NATIONAL Public Relations of Toronto has opened its first office outside Canada. Located in New York, the office will initially focus on financial communications, media relations, corporate positioning, initial public offerings and mergers, as well as acquisitions and communications. Mark Bonacci and John Shave have joined the U.S. office as principals. Most recently Bonacci worked at Georgeson & Company's technology sector, specializing in financial consulting and stock surveillance to large, medium and small capitalization companies. Shave was at Georgeson heading the insurance/financial services industry. Edmund Belak has been named managing partner. He has also worked at Georgeson, Burson-Marsteller and Hill & Knowlton. NATIONAL also has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.