WMG Team

Following a brief stint teaching high school English in Miami Beach, Sandie started her business career at Bozell & Jacobs, a New York-based Madison Avenue advertising agency, where she learned how to multi task, long before it became part of the jargon; she worked simultaneously on two major national media pr tours for Weyerhauser Corporation and Wise Potato Chips in support of their national advertising campaigns. After she left Bozell, she moved across Madison Avenue to Park Avenue, where she served as the Assistant Publicity Director for The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

After relocating to San Francisco, Sandie worked as Account Executive at International Public Relations, a small, but globally-connected agency, where she supervised such accounts as the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Simi Winery, San Benito Vineyards and the Geysers in Northern California.

Appointed Director of Advertising and Public Relations for Hyatt on Union Square (now the Grand Hyatt San Francisco,) Sandie’s next nine years were devoted to positioning, branding and marketing the property during a period of spectacular growth. During that time, she won many awards, the most prestigious of which were from the American Hotel & Motel Association for First Place - Crisis Communications and First Place - Community Relations/Public Service.

Sandie is an active member of the San Francisco public relations community, having served as president of the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club, and on the Board of Directors of American Women in Radio and Television and Women in Communications. She is also an active member of the San Francisco Professional Food Society, International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association, Bay Area Travel Writers Association, National Association of Female Executives and various nonprofits. For six years, she was Executive Director of Sales & Marketing Executives of the Bay Area, an affiliate of Sales & Marketing Executives International.

For over a decade, Sandie has been listed in Who’s Who, Who’s Who in American Women and Who’s Who in U.S. Executives. She is often invited to speak at seminars, schools and professional organizations on the subject of public relations, marketing, crisis communications and advertising. She has been a guest lecturer at Golden Gate University, University of California,University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University and she taught a marketing course at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. She has also been featured in many print and electronic stories relating to the industry and has written extensively on these subjects in a variety of journals and magazines.

Sandie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History with a minor in Psychology from the University of Florida in Gainesville and has taken advanced course work at the University of San Francisco.

Neil Worden brings to WMG a wealth of marketing, desktop publishing, office management and IT experience. While working in these capacities for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Northern Trust Bank, PowerBar and Merrill Lynch, he developed training sessions for clients desiring to market company websites, served as a marketing copywriter, wrote several website navigation manuals, designed databases, compiled Internet research, edited Y2K project summaries and organized special events.

Neil’s eclectic background also includes teaching and professional acting. At the University of Washington, he taught acting courses in complete contrast to ten years as a backcountry instructor and program director for Ben Delatour Scout Ranch in the Northern Rockies. He’s performed on stage and in film and has been occasionally pushed into a few nights of stand-up comedy. At WMG, Neil employs his acting background to assist clients with public speaking and media training exercises.

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts - Performance, with a minor in Biology, Anthropology and Creative Writing, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Colorado and a Master of Fine Arts - Performance, from the University of Washington.

Neil, his wife and infant son reside in San Francisco.

At WMG, we strive to offer the highest quality service and
professionalism to each and every one of our clients.

To reach that goal, we often join forces with leading public relations, marketing and design professionals to supplement and complement our own palette of services.

The following are our joint venture/alliance partners.

As President of Britt & Associates, Trisha Britt focuses on award-winning media placement public relations. She has dedicated her career in focusing on business accounts involving technology, medical, general business and consumer clients.

Trisha's expertise is media relations and the packaging of successful public relations campaigns on behalf of the service industries, high tech, medical, banking/financial, conference centers and national associations. Her clients include Doctors Medical Center, San Ramon Regional Medical Center (introducing Computer Motion’s operating room robot,) Computer Classroom, DB Master, Professional Exhibits and Graphics, Victorian House Concentrated Coffee, Neptune Society of Northern California, JM Perry Corporation, Propaganda, Tamalpais Bank, South San Francisco Conference Center and the Bowling Proprietor’s Association of America.

Trisha has placed hundreds of feature-length stories on behalf of her clients covering a complete spectrum of national and local media, including print and Internet magazines, wire services, newspapers, network news broadcasts, nationally-syndicated TV talk shows and specials and radio. Her clients have appeared in such venues as the Wall Street Journal, Real Computing with John Dvorak, On Computers, Financevision@yahoo.com, People Magazine, Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, 20/20, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox Network, Time Magazine, Alaska Airlines Magazine, NBC Network News, ABC Network News AP, UPI and Reuters, to name just a few.

Her specific expertise is in crafting news stories on prevailing trends and issues that position clients favorably with editors, reporters, producers and talk show hosts.

She is the winner of the prestigious 1994 William Tell Award, which is granted annually by the broadcast and print media for the "best in the public relations profession." Her award was for the best story pitch received with extra points for brevity, unusual angles and overcoming initial resistance.

Trisha is also a specialist in strategic planning, business development, new product/service introductions, corporate image campaigns, marketing support, event and seminar planning, journalism, media placement, broadcast and media training.

Trisha is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club and has served on its Board of Directors for three years. She earned a BA in English and Creative Writing from Penn State University.

Trisha and her husband reside in Mill Valley.

Elizabeth has been associated with the Wernick Marketing Group from it’s inception 18 years ago. In addition to serving as a consultant to WMG, she also represents the firm at client meetings and conferences on the East Coast, and assists with the planning and implementation of east-coast-based special events such as the first annual Koret Foundation National Jewish Book Awards Ceremony at the Harvard Club in New York.

In her role as an editor, researcher and writer for WMG, Elizabeth writes marketing plans, strategic planning overviews and white papers. She is also the "final eye" for many of the firm’s collateral materials, advertisements and direct mail pieces.

In addition to her joint venture alliance with WMG, she works as a consultant in private practice in New York, New Jersey and Miami. At the same time, she is the creative advisor for a thriving dot.com website, sensui.com, which she helped transition from a small direct mail catalogue company into a profitable e-commerce venture.

Prior to her consulting work, Elizabeth was Associate Director of the Anti-Defamation League in Miami. In the field of education, she has held several positions, including Adjunct Professor, Assistant to the Director, and Research and Teaching Assistant/Clinical Instructor at Florida International University. She was a TEC Workshop Instructor for the Dade County Public Schools and was a classroom teacher at Miami Beach Senior High School (where she originally met Sandie Wernick, a fellow teacher) and Pompano Beach Senior High School. In her spare time, she starred in a network and cable television commercial for Proctor and Gamble which ran for over ten years throughout North America.

Elizabeth is a member of numerous professional organizations, some of which include the American Association of University Women, American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, National Association for Female Executives, Phi Delta Kappa (a professional Education Fraternity), Phi Kappa Phi (National Academic Honor Society), Screen Actors’ Guild, Women in Communications and Zeta Phi Eta (National Professional Fraternity in Communication Arts and Sciences.)

She has published dozens of papers, including A Guide to the Planning and Execution of Short Conferences for the Anti-Defamation League, and A Review of National Report on Women’s Health Issues for the American Public Health Association. She is licensed and certified by the State of Florida Department of Education, Yad Vashem Summer Institute of Holocaust Studies (in Israel) and the University of Miami Preventive Strategies for Substance Education.

Elizabeth holds a Doctorate in Education from Florida International University and a Masters and Bachelors in Education from the University of Miami.

She has dual residences - New York City and Miami Beach.

Jane Bloom's professional experience spans more than 20 years in public relations, marketing, advertising and entertainment in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Prior to establishing JB&A in 1973, she was affiliated with The Mirisch Corporation, United Artists and Paramount as a publicist. In 1984, she co-wrote and co-produced a video documentary, MARILYN: CLOSE UP, for National Video Productions. Since 1990, JB&A has been recognized as one of the entertainment industry's top Personal Management firms.

Her association with WMG, which spans two decades, has been extremely beneficial for both of their companies and clientele. Jane has provided celebrities, their services and her numerous contacts in the Los Angeles and New York markets for the many special event functions produced by WMG, including stockholder meetings, hotel and restaurant grand openings, retail openings, seminars and speeches and tennis/golf tournaments.

At the creative helm of JB&A, Jane produced, wrote and directed television commercials and industrials, as well as designed and staged trade shows, conventions and major charity events. She also produced several award-winning print/direct mail campaigns for the agency's predominantly consumer-oriented client base.

JB&A clients regularly appeared on 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Hour Magazine, CNN, Geraldo, Entertainment Tonight, USA Today and the BBC, as well as in major newspapers and magazines around the world.