Adam Eisenstat is a freelance journalist, creative writer and communications professional with experience in editorial direction, strategy formulation, public relations and copywriting. His 27 year career includes marketing for Fortune 1000 Corporate clients including the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative (formerly Trump University), a defunct online education company owned and founded by Donald Trump, for whom, Eisenstat functioned as a ghostwriter.
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Andrew Fillipponi joined Pittsburgh’s Sports radio 93.7 the Fanwhen the station launched in February of 2010. He’s currently the station’s evenings host and Pitt Panthers post-game host. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, Andrew talked sports in Buffalo. Some of his favorite moments there include working Jim Kelly’s Hunter’s Hope Radiothon and selecting George Washington with the third pick in the station’s President’s Draft. In addition to hosting shows and doing sports updates, he did fill-in baseball play-by-play for the Buffalo Bisons of the International League. A native of New York State, Andrew’s broadcasting career began at Syracuse University. In 2009, he hosted SU football and basketball post-game.
Below is a link to a sample on-camera appearance: Aditi Kinkhabwala is a national correspondent on the NFL Network and a reporter for the NFL Media Group. She appears on the network's entire roster of live programming ? Around the NFL, NFL Total Access, Game Day Live and Game Day Highlights the last three seasons has been a featured reporter on specialty programming, be it during training camp, Black Monday or the draft. Aditi's repertoire includes "News of the Day" updates, pre-game and post-game hits and lengthier feature pieces. She also writes columns, as well as enterprise stories, for NFL.com. Aditi is a regular guest on radio shows from Baltimore to Los Angeles. She also continues to be a featured writer in the annual official Super Bowl program. Before embarking on a career in television, Aditi was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. She covered the New York Giants through their last Super Bowl run, offering daily insights into the team and its personalities, as well as the NFL at large. From 2002-2009, she was a sports writer at The (Bergen) Record, where she primarily covered Rutgers football and men's and women's basketball, but spent summers writing on the Yankees and Mets. She was also Sports Illustrated's Big East correspondent and wrote a weekly column for SI.com. Her story on the Rutgers women's basketball team in the aftermath of Don Imus's derogatory characterization of its players was featured on the cover of that week's Sports Illustrated. Her first full-time job as a journalist was at the San Antonio Express-News, however, she began her career while in high school, writing for two New Jersey dailies, The News Tribune and then the Home News Tribune. Aditi graduated cum laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in American Studies. Below is a link to a sample on-camera appearance: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap3000000964901/Kinkhabwala-Antonio-Brown-frustrated-with-how-Steelers-are-playing
Rob Biertempfel is the Pirates senior writer for “The Athletic” Pittsburgh and a correspondent for MLB Network. Before joining The Athletic, Rob covered Major League Baseball, college football, the NFL and the NHL). After graduation from Penn State University in 1987, he worked as a Sports Editor and Reporter for the Maryland Independent then moved on to a 215 year career with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He specializes in in-depth feature writing and investigative reporting. He has extensive on-air television experience providing on-air reports, analysis and breaking news concerning the Pittsburgh Pirates with MLB Network and Fox Sports. He has covered Penn State football from 1994-2005 and written sports business stories, enterprise stories and covered NFL, NHL and professional boxing.
Below is a link to a sample on-camera appearance: Ron Cook played high school baseball and football just poorly enough to realize that, for him, a career in sports would involve journalism. His first job in high school was covering high school basketball for the Beaver Falls News-Tribune. Ron graduated from Northwestern University in 1978 and he remembers that one of his great challenges was putting a positive spin on Northwestern's 69-0 lost at Michigan. After graduation Ron began work at the Beaver County Times covering the Steelers, the Pirates and high school sports. In October 1983, Ron took a job with the Pittsburgh Press, where he briefly covered West Virginia football and the Pittsburgh Maulers before moving on to the Steelers beat in 1984 and 1985. He was promoted in 1986 to special assignments writer and, among other things, covered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He moved to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in January 1989 and started writing a sports column a year later that continues to this day. Ron covered the 1992 Winter Olympics in France, the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but his career highlights are the Penguins Stanley Cup years in 1991, 1992, and 2009, and the Steelers Super Bowl appearances in 1995, 2005, 2008, and 2010. During the run-up to the Steelers Super Bowl XL win in Detroit, Ron was given complete access to cover Jerome Bettis in his hometown. On the radio side, Ron hosted a Saturday afternoon sports talk show on KDKA-AM from 1993 to 2002, and appeared on KDKA sister station 93.7 The Fan as co-host of the "Vinnie and Cook" show and currently hosts a mid-day slot on 93.7 The Fan with Joe Starkey. Ron has frequently appeared on television, first as a recurring guest on Fox Sports Pittsburgh's SportsBeat show, and currently twice a week with Hall of Famer Bob Pompeani on the Nightly Sports Call on KDKA's sister station Pittsburgh's CW. Ron also often participates in the KDKA Sports Showdown Sunday nights at 11:35pm, and is a frequent guest on ESPN's "Outside The Lines" and the NFL Network. Rob Rossi is senior writer for “The Athletic” Pittsburgh. He was previously lead columnist at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, for which he also served as lead beat reporter on the Penguins (NHL) and Pirates (MLB). He has won awards for his columns and investigative stories on concussion protocol and athletes’ charities, and is working on Evgeni Malkin’s authorized biography. After Graduating from WVU in 2000 he served as a staff reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for 13 years. He was a Radio Talk Show host for 93.7 FM – The Fan and then, for TribLive Radio. In addition to his position with “The Athletic,” he is currently a contributing reporter for WPXI Pittsburgh (Cox Communications). Rob is a veteran sports reporter with over 20 years of experience in Pittsburgh market and is nationally and regionally recognized for reporting on youth sports, athletes' charities and the NFL, as well as, internationally for his coverage of the NHL. Ed Bouchette joined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1983 and has covered the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers since 1985. He is a member of the board of selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and has covered more than 30 Super Bowls, five of those involving the Steelers. He has authored two books on the Steelers and helped co-author others, including the NFL’s 75th Anniversary book. Bouchette’s work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Sport, Pro Football Weekly, Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine, Street & Smith’s, TV Guide, and many more publications. He also has worked for the Tribune-Review in Greensburg, the McKeesport Daily News, the Indiana Gazette, the York Dispatch, and the Doylestown Daily Intelligencer. Induction into the IUP Athletic Hall of Fame completes an impressive run of professional recognition for Ed Bouchette that began in 2014 with the prestigious Dick McCann Award, given to one NFL writer annually at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and continued last year with receiving the IUP Distinguished Alumni Award and the Bill Burns Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. He also has done extensive TV and radio work in Pittsburgh and written for many national publications.
Craig Columbus is the founder and CEO of Columbus Macro, LLC, a global asset manager serving institutions, government entities, and financial advisers. He oversees the firm’s investment decision-making and is a popular conference speaker and media personality, known for identifying key macro trends and distilling complex policy analysis in an accessible manner. Mr. Columbus has held a variety of CEO roles over the last twenty years, leading Cetera’s Tower Square Investment Management, First Allied Asset Management, and the financial algorithm provider Scorelab, Inc. He previously served as a professor and department chair at Pennsylvania’s Grove City College. Mr. Columbus earned his BA in economics from Loyola University, an MBA from Penn State University, a JD from Indiana University, and an MA in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Policy from Arizona State University. He is available upon request to discuss how economic issues affect ordinary Americans, financial markets, political races, and campaign platforms.
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Dennis Unkovic is an international corporate lawyer with
Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP. He has over 35 years’ experience handling complex business transactions which have taken him to 64 countries around the world. Unkovic has substantial M&A experience while also focusing on structuring joint ventures and strategic alliances, advising on inbound and outbound direct foreign investment projects, managing technology transfers and licensing projects, and handling intellectual property. Unkovic has held numerous positions within the Meritas Legal Network®, including Chairman from 2015 to 2018 during which he had the opportunity over three years to travel to 32 countries. In addition, Unkovic is a Board Member for many non-profit organizations within Greater Pittsburgh, including the Civic Light Opera Association of Pittsburgh, The Pennsylvania Economy League, The Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania, and served as the former Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh. Unkovic often delivers presentations to businesses' government officials, and academic institutions worldwide on a wide variety of issues. Unkovic has frequently appeared on CNBC, Chinese Central Television, KDKA Television, and has contributed his commentaries and extensive knowledge regarding current and future international business and trade to other media and publication outlets. Since 1982, he has spoken throughout North America, Asia (including more than 100 trips to Japan and 60 trips to China), Europe, Africa, and Australia/New Zealand. In addition to his commentaries and speaking engagements, Unkovic has authored nine books in English, with two of them published in Chinese, and three books translated into Japanese. Unkovic’s books focus on international business topics. Before joining Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, Dennis Unkovic served in Washington D.C. as the Legislative Director for Hugh D. Scott, Former United States Senate Minority Leader, while simultaneously serving as Assistant Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents, Tradmarks, and Copyrights. Unkovic received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Virginia and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School Of Law. Since 2001, Unkovic has been elected for every inclusion of The Best Lawyers in America®. Below is a link to a sample on-camera appearance: Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D. is an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where his research focuses on insurgency/counterinsurgency, unconventional/irregular/asymmetric warfare (including cyber) and a range of other national and international security issues and challenges. From a methodological standpoint, he is interested in measurement, assessment, and evaluation, from tactical to strategic. At the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, Clarke is an affiliated scholar with research interests related to transnational terrorism and violent non-state actors. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches courses on international organized crime and threat finance. At Carnegie Mellon University, Clarke teaches Contemporary Comparative Political Systems and Diplomacy And Statecraft (with a focus on U.S. foreign and security policy and American grand strategy). In 2011, he spent three months embedded with Combines Joint Inter-agency Task Force Shafafiyat in Kabul, Afghanistan, working on anti-corruption efforts and analyzing the nexus between terrorists, drug traffickers, and a range of political and economic power brokers. Clarke recently completed "Terrorism, Inc.: The Financing of Terrorism, Insurgency and Irregular Warfare," published in 2015 by Praeger Security International. He has also co-authored "Paths to Victory: Lessons from Modern Insurgencies," "Paths to Victory: Detailed Insurgency Case Studies," "Mexico is not Columbia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies," "From Stalemate to Settlement: Lessons for Afghanistan from Historical Insurgencies That Have Been Resolved Through Negotiations," "Victory has a Thousand Fathers: Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies" and, "Victory has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency," as well as, numerous articles and papers. Clarke is frequently asked to appear as a guest on national television and radio. He received his Ph.D. in International Security Policy from the University of Pittsburgh. Below is a link to a sample on-camera appearance: |