As founder and chief executive officer of Coyne Public Relations, Tom Coyne has created a strategic communications firm offering a full range of marketing services to worldwide interests. Tom’s vision and dedication have helped a wide variety of organizations and individuals successfully deliver their specific messages to strategic audiences through creative communications, ranging from launching new products nationwide to managing the most delicate crisis situations.

Tom has spearheaded successful projects for some of the world’s most successful brands and numerous Fortune 500 companies including The Walt Disney Company, Shell Lubricants, Kraft Foods, The Campbell Soup Company, Verizon, Medco Health Solutions, Newell-Rubbermaid, General Mills, Cendant and Hard Rock International.

However, it is Tom’s focus on his employees that has allowed it to compete for blue-chip clients with the world’s most respected multi-national agencies. Traditional philosophy dictates that the best employees seek out agencies with the best clients; however, Coyne’s philosophy is counterculture: Attract the best people, and the best clients will seek us out. Tom’s employees are his passion; by creating the best possible work environment for all employees, the agency produces the best possible results for clients, and becomes a trusted resource for media.

The firm has grown in reputation, size, profits and spirit without losing what has made it great: the focus on the people. Tom’s philosophy can be best reflected by the agency’s mission statement: “Our mission is not to be the best agency in America, but the best one to work for. If we are the best place to work, we will get the best people. If we have the best people, we will get the best clients. If we have the best people and clients, how can we not be the best agency in America?”

Under Tom’s strategic direction, Coyne PR has garnered more than 50 industry awards for communications excellence in 2009, including being named PRWeek’s 2009 Midsize Agency of the Year, 2009 Consumer Agency of the Year and 2009 Best Agency to Work For by The Holmes Report and PR News Midsize Agency of the Year. Additionally, Tom was recognized as a PRWeek 40 Under 40 in 2008, a finalists for PR News’ Agency Executive of the Year in 2007, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year NJ finalist, a NJBiz Top 40 Under 40 Executives, and PR Person of the Year in 2003 by the New Jersey Public Relations Society of America.