Management Team

Adult Supervision (More or less)

Led by co-founders Caryn Marooney and Margit Wennmachers, OutCast has emerged as one of the leading public relations agencies for the technology industries’ leaders, makers and shakers. With Julie Kehoe on board to lead the New York office, OutCast now offers a higher degree of personal attention for our growing list of East Coast-based clients.

This is a team with diverse backgrounds and expertise, but all share in common these key traits:

  • they are hands-on
  • they enjoy talking to the media
  • they like solving client issues

The last thing this leadership team wants is to become detached from the day-to-day discipline of public relations. Part of it is passion: we love what we do. The other part is pragmatic; how can we realistically be an example to OutCast if we live in an ivory tower of strategy? Our fundamental philosophy at OutCast is this: public relations strategy and execution cannot be separated. That is why each and every member of the management team is here.

We’ve brought this experience and enthusiasm to each and every client engagement over the years. OutCast is well known for its work with salesforce.com, having worked with the company since its founding. We are equally proud of our newest clients - check out our current list to see who we're working with right now. Furthermore, the combined experience of the management team reads like a who’s who of technology leaders: Apple Computer, Baan Corporation, BEA Systems, Borland, BMC, Cadence Design Systems, Compuware, Good Technology, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, MapQuest, Microsoft, NBC, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pretty Good Privacy, Sun, Sybase, Symantec, VeriSign and Vignette.

The members of the management team at OutCast combine nearly 100 years of experience with technology public relations, including work at nearly 20 PR agencies for nearly 300 different clients. The group has also been on the front lines for nearly one thousand press tours, pitched thousands of press releases, and celebrated nearly 30 cover stories.

(On the down side, they don’t remember much about the hundreds of cocktail parties they’ve attended, and hardly ever wear the dozens of dot com t-shirts sitting in their closets.)