About

We are a boutique firm serving a significant clientele. Our expertise is often quoted in the media. We provide sought-after results for clients. You can read about them in our case studies.

Our Story

Reputation Communications was established in 2009 to provide reputation management services to high net worth families, law firms, investigative agencies and multinational financial companies.

Today we are known as a trusted, nonpartisan online reputation management resource for CEOs, business leaders, entrepreneurs, rising stars, VIPs and their organizations. We have served luxury brands, news-making public figures, philanthropists, Forbes 400 and Forbes 500 clients, entertainment industry icons, FinTech leaders, tech founders, venture capitalists and others.

Our Founder

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CEO Shannon M. Wilkinson is a nationally recognized expert in digital reputation management and an expert witness for legal cases related to reputation issues. As a former commentator for The Wall Street Journal, her analysis of how leading corporations are managing their crises focused on Equifax, NBC, Ohio State University, Purdue Pharma, Sanofi, UBER, and others. She has been quoted in Consumer Reports, Huffington Post, USA Today and the NBC Today Show.

She leads a team of U.S.-based content creators, digital designers, IT and SEO specialists and social media managers to perform client work. Reputation Communications partners with CC:S to develop optimized, SEO-rich personal branding campaigns, a hallmark of our work.

Advisory Board

Scott B. Alswang is a world-traveled security expert who has provided protection services for US Presidents, heads of state, dignitaries, and ongoing, high profile global executives and prominent individuals.

Scott served for 20 years in the United States Secret Service. He protected every U.S. President from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. Scott also conducted protective advances for every major foreign head of state that visited the United States of America.

 

Don Aviv is the President of Interfor International, one of the world’s leading corporate intelligence firms. He is a regular contributor to a variety of publications on a variety of foreign policy and security matters, serves as the Vice Chairman of the ASIS International Security Services Council, and he sits on numerous corporate boards. He spoke with us on the topic of “Due Diligence” verifications in February 2019.

Myron I Blumenfeld has over seventy years of management experience. Prior to forming Myron I. Blumenfeld & Associates in 1981, he served as a Vice President of three different companies ranging in size from $20,000,000 to $125,000,000.  He was also Manager of International Retail Consulting for Ernst & Whinney (now EY-Ernst & Young) and a Vice President of The Garr Consulting Group (a subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche – now Deloitte Innovation Solutions). 

Mr. Blumenfeld has a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University.  Mr. Blumenfeld joined the Workshop In Business Opportunities in 2006 and currently serves as Chair Emeritus, after serving 7 years as Chairman.

David Niccolini is the COO of Evidencity, a platform for records retrieval and local insight in over 160 countries around the world. Prior to joining Evidencity, Mr. Niccolini co-founded TorchStone in 2010. During his tenure, the company won numerous awards and was featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and other media outlets. David has directed research, security, consulting, and investigative operations across six continents on behalf of multinational corporations, families, non-governmental organizations, and U.S. government clients.

Christine Rafin, Esq. specializes in Internet, communications and media law. She is  General Counsel – Media,  a360 Media, LLC (formerly American Media, Inc.) in New York. Previously she was a partner at a New York City law firm, focusing on commercial and civil litigation along with Internet, data privacy and security law, and other areas. She has authored articles such as “ An Attorney’s Advice for Removing Negative, Defamatory and Infringing Material from the Internet.”

Dr. Sandi Webster is the CEO & Chief Learning Officer of Sandi Webster LLC. Her brand, Sandi Webster Coachsulting, empowers business owners through her online courses, advisory board management, one-on-one and group coaching, workshops and speaking sessions. To help her clients build successful companies and form top-notch advisory boards, she utilizes over 35 years of business experience working in multinational corporations and co-founding, scaling, and selling an award-winning management consulting company. Her clients included Fortune 500 global public companies in financial services, telecom, insurance, retail, and several other industries.