PAIRELATIONS' Creation
PAIRELATIONS' founder Susan J. Lewis is a seasoned public and investor relations specialist with more than 20 years of experience. She has both an agency and a corporate background and has worked on the East and West coasts. She has represented companies spanning a broad range of industries.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Lewis has cultivated media contacts in the national financial press as well as daily newspapers, regional business journals, broadcast media and a variety of trade publications nationwide. She also has developed relationships with key members of the investment community on both the buy- and sell-sides.
Before forming PAIRELATIONS, Ms. Lewis spent three years as Director of Public and Investor Relations at Apria Healthcare Group, Inc., one of the nation's largest home healthcare providers (formerly Abbey Healthcare Group Incorporated and Homedco Group, Inc.). She handled all aspects of the company's public and investor relations programs while also creating campaigns surrounding the billion dollar merger that formed Apria.
Previously, Ms. Lewis spent nine years at The Financial Relations Board, Inc., a leading national investor relations agency, as Vice President and Associate Director of National Media Relations.
Ms. Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from the State University of New York, College at New Paltz. She has completed additional studies at the New York Institute of Finance and The Dale Carnegie Institute. She has been affiliated with The Publicity Club of New York. She also is a member of The Public Relations Society of America and The National Investor Relations Institute.