POUGHKEEPSIE – The Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation (HVEDC) has added Impact PR & Communications to its Advisory Board of Directors. Representing the Hudson Valley-based public relations and marketing firm and New York State certified Women’s Business Enterprise is the agency’s founder and CEO, Filomena Fanelli.
“Impact PR’s commitment to highlighting the region and its many assets, as well as magnifying the good works of public and private organizations in a forward-thinking way, is in lockstep with our mission at the HVEDC,” said the President & CEO of HVEDC, Michael Oates. “We’re looking forward to the firm’s involvement and to having Filomena on our team of innovators.”
Impact PR has been recognized for being a Top Women-run Workplace of the Year and has earned more than a dozen Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Mercury Awards for client work, as well as a gold Hermes Creative Award.
Fanelli was previously named a Forty Under 40 by the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League of Poughkeepsie’s Provisional of the Year.
“It’s an honor to be part of the HVEDC and to lend our team’s insights and perspective to helping the region we are based in and that so many of us live in,” said Fanelli.
