Janet Brumfield

FOUNDER + CEO

Janet Brumfield is founder and CEO of Ideal PR+. She was most recently the director of corporate communications for Verizon, where she was responsible for enhancing the brand and reputation of the B2B unit of Verizon, before starting her own PR practice in April 2017. While at Verizon, she oversaw the unit’s enterprise product and service PR and thought leadership program, including publicizing the ground-breaking Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report series since its inception in 2008, the creation of the Verizon Holiday Index and its annual Tech Trends initiative. She was instrumental in setting up the social media program for Verizon’s enterprise unit, including the first company blog for enterprises. Over the course of her career at Verizon, she partnered with major tech players including Google, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM/Soft Layer, Equinix, Juniper, Riverbed, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, SAP, Splunk, and VMWare to create PR strategies that yielded strong results for both parties.

Over her career, she has worked to promote some of the world’s most admired brands (Verizon, Akamai, Trustwave, DSW, Shell Chemical Company, MCI, CompuServe, UUNET and Stanley Steemer) and has won several industry awards, including the Herme Awards-Platinum for the PR Campaign “Verizon Business: Open for Business Worldwide” in 2007 and a PR News Platinum Award for crisis communications for her work on Y2K while at UUNET. She is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national journalism honor society, and sits on the leadership board of the American Diabetes Association for Ohio. In addition, Janet likes to mentor college students majoring in communications and enjoys speaking at industry events. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in journalism from The Ohio State University, studying under Walt Seifert, the “father of PRSSA”.