Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Marketing and Media Veteran Eileen Prose Joins Renaissance Group as Director of Public Relations

Marketing powerhouse and award-winning broadcaster to focus on Alliance of independent insurance agents who offer unprecedented solutions to consumers.

WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Renaissance Group, one of New England's fastest growing and most innovative insurance organizations, announced today that marketing luminary and Emmy award winning broadcaster Eileen Prose has joined the company as Director of Public Relations. Prose will drive the PR efforts for all of the Renaissance Group divisions, including the Renaissance Alliance Group of 80 independent New England agents.

"Eileen's record of promotion success is extraordinary," said Bruce Cochrane, CEO of Renaissance Group. "She will super-charge our marketing and public relations efforts - just when our success is really starting to soar. We are thrilled Eileen has joined the Renaissance Team."

"Eileen brings 20 years of Fortune 500 integrated media program management and event production skills to our organization. At Renaissance, she will focus on accelerating an already rapid rate of growth while establishing a strategic, community based, Public Relations infrastructure able to support the company and its affiliated agents on a local, regional, and national level," said First Senior Vice President Joe Solomon.

"Renaissance Group has amazing people and services - real paradigm changers," said Eileen Prose. "With this kind of talent, momentum, and commitment to the consumer driving every decision, I truly see no limit to the growth of this outstanding organization and their partner agents."

A remarkable broadcasting career further enhances the industry savvy and dynamism Prose brings to Renaissance Group. As the longtime host of the Good Day show on WCVB/Channel 5, Prose won four Daytime Emmy Awards. She has hosted numerous high-profile programs including Working Mother, a daily national program on Lifetime Television, for which she won the coveted cable ACE award, Your Baby and Child, also a national program on Lifetime Television, and WRKO's The Eileen Prose Show. She won a Telly Award for the writing and production of an Ocean Spray signature film, was Second Runner-up and the Talent Award Winner in the Miss America Pageant, and was named Best in the Media by many organizations and Woman of the Year by the Juvenile Diabetes Association. Prose has won many honors for her public service and continues to serve on the boards of several charitable foundations.

About Renaissance Group

Renaissance Group is an integrated group of specialty services for New England based insurance agencies, insurers and vendors that leverage their considerable combined expertise to deliver "Best in Business" insurance services to business, individuals and families throughout the region. Renaissance agents have learned the advantages of unprecedented growth, increased efficiencies and cutting-edge technology. In an era of increasingly impersonal sales and service, Renaissance Group offers a fresh, relationship based, alternative to its affiliated agencies, insurance partners and the thousands of consumers who rely on Renaissance Alliance Agents.