Paul Shlackman is proprietor of PS Public Relations, a freelance provider of press and social media relations services. He has more than twenty years’ experience in hi-tech public relations having worked on both sides of the agency and in-house PR divide. Paul has been directing and co-ordinating UK and multi-country PR campaigns for a wide range of B2B and B2C clients over many years. In the early 2000s he successfully launched major security technology brands like SonicWALL, Barracuda Networks and AVG in Europe. During the ‘90s Paul was a Senior Account Director with one of the UK’s largest hi-tech agencies specialising in multi-country campaigns.
Paul spent the early part of his career as a press officer in-house at NCR, the manufacturer of retail and banking computer systems. From there he joined a small London-based hi-tech consultancy handling the PR for numerous divisions of BT.