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Lonny Unger

 

Lonny Unger

Managing Director, Corporate Communications Group, ICR Inc.

Lonny Unger recently joined ICR, the leading independent financial and corporate communications firm, after running his own public relations consulting firm for several years. Previously, he was with Manning, Selvage & Lee for more than 22 years, serving as the firm's chief operating Officer and managing director of its New York office.


Unger specializes in the development and implementation of marketing and financial communications programs and gets involved in a wide of array of tasks for clients, including media relations, corporate and product positioning and marketing communications.


Unger has particular expertise in the areas of corporate positioning and technology and has worked with clients including General Electric, NCR, Northern Telecom and IBM, among others.


Unger started his career as a journalist, first as a general assignment reporter for for a daily newspaper in Connecticut and then with the Gannett chain in Westchester County, NY and subsequently as as a business journalist, working with American Metal Market. He then immediately went into the public relations industry.


He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in journalism.