About Us

WE GO DEEPER.

In-depth PR coverage and smart communication influences, engages and builds meaningful relationships with crucial audiences. Now, and for the past 25 years, our clients count on our results-focused crew to dive deeper. We help them dig down and reveal what makes thier innovative B2B technologies great and get their message to the world.

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Wired Island has particular expertise in helping international start-ups, scale-ups, and mid-stage companies establish a presence and build awareness in the US market. We work closely with them to deliver communication solutions that move to the beat of America.

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A Little About Us:

We’ve cut our teeth working with global B2B tech companies – large and small – for more than 25 years. Our clients are based in Silicon Valley, the tech centers of Europe to the far reaches of Asia. They all share a common goal: to reach technically-savvy audiences. We work with engineers, PhD’s, young entrepreneurs as well as seasoned CEOs to develop compelling messages to tell their intricate stories and resonate with key audiences. We know tech PR and marketing because we’ve lived it from the trenches on up.

Oh, and about the name, Wired Island? There’s a story there, too, so drop us a line and we’ll tell you what that’s all about.

How we work.

Wired Island is a specialized PR and digital marketing agency for global B2B tech innovators.

We’re a focused communications firm with deep experience for tech driven companies. We develop strategic and integrated communications programs using earned, owned and paid media. Working with international B2B companies for more than 25 years, we know how to craft compelling messages around technically-complex stories that resonate with key audiences.

Let’s do something great.

We serve B2B tech companies – large and small – from Silicon Valley, the tech centers of Europe and Israel to the far reaches of Asia.

Clients use us as their sounding boards and trust us in their boardrooms. We’re known for our commitment and broad experience and clients fit us in as easily as one of their own.

Mike Sottak

Mike has been around just about every block in high tech PR and Marketing, and puts his experience of more-years-than-he’d-like-to-admit to work for Wired Island clients every day. Trained in the trenches of Silicon Valley and schooled by working internationally most of his career, Mike can still remember the day 20 years ago when the glimmer in his eye gave birth to Wired Island.

Mike Sottak

Chief Bottle Washer

Toni Sottak

The backbone of the operation, Toni keeps the ship sailing on course and all the crew rowing in the right direction. Her extensive PR skills deliver proven results to clients worldwide, and it’s always service with a smile. Den mother and nurturer to the Wired Island team and clients alike, her maternal nature makes for a happy family all around.

Toni Sottak

Den Mother

Rebecca Renner

Rebecca’s friendly smile and outgoing personality belie her street toughness that she uses to fight for every client result. A closet hipster, she can Insta with the best of them but still gets that press coverage is the holy grail. She’s never met a hashtag she couldn’t work into a client’s post.

Rebecca Renner

Juggler of all things

Mandy Townsend

Mandy brings a distinctive Southern Charm to the Wired Island operation, disarming ornery journalists with her genuine Charleston accent and sparkle. And she keeps the lights on at the office with finely tuned organizational skills, not to mention always appreciated donut deliveries just at the right moment.

Mandy Townsend

Task Master

Chico

Born in the Dominican Republic, raised in the Turks & Caicos Islands and made his first million as a llama shepherd in the South of France, Chico brings a certain je ne sais quoi to Wired Island. His International flair and piercing good looks belie his deeply intellectual passions for PR and digital marketing. He has several followers on social media and is contemplating creating his own branded hashtag.

Chico

Chief Barketing Officer

Deborah Mohnssen

Digital maestro Deb spins web designs and on-line campaigns that deliver the goods. She can eke the most out of WordPress template in the morning and then make your email newsletter look like a masterpiece by close of day. And don’t even get us started on social media. If it’s powered by 1’s and 0’s, Deb can make it sing.

Deborah Mohnssen

Design Goddess

Manisha Tolani

Based in Turks & Caicos, Manisha combines style and substance in a bona fide package of communications skills for a new era. A designer extraordinaire and a wordsmith to boot, when she’s not busy styling for clients, she can be found at her own co-working space On Island.

Manisha Tolani

Strategy Guru

Chris De Sa

Chris is the SEO guru who Google wishes they had on their side. The dude’s a magician who can literally make your needle jump out of the digital haystack that is search today. He’s cut his teeth on all types of digital marketing and automation, from lead gen to online discovery. Chris works out of his man cave somewhere north of the border and we actually don’t even know what he looks like. Seriously.

Chris De Sa

Google-meister

Tim Thomas

Nobody embodies the ‘marketing without borders’ mentality of Wired Island more than our web developer. This multi-passport holding globetrotter is part Jason Bourne, part MacGyver, with a little Anthony Bourdain. Tim has never met a hotspot he can’t crack – or a customs agent that won’t let him pass. When not changing his IP address, he’s solving every web conundrum we find. Even an Icelandic tour bus running over his laptop can’t slow him down (true story).

Tim Thomas

Digital Nomad

Peach

She’s biding her time as heir apparent to the throne that her mentor Chico refuses to abdicate, but she’s happy to share the doggy office couch with him. Short on experience but with a never-say-no attitude, Peach livens up the most dreadful of Zoom calls. No task is beneath her and the punctual pooch keeps the office secure from unwanted, or even welcome, guests while performing a daily sweep of the grounds for dangerous sausage remnants.

Peach

Cyber Canine

Noel Thevenet

Noel adds a special je ne sais pas quoi to the Wired Island program from her base in the City of Light. A California girl at heart, her years of living and working in the French tech ecosystem gives her a unique insight how European companies can best position themselves for success on the other side of the pond. When not working the room at the hippest tech meet-ups and gatherings, Noel keeps busy developing marketing strategies that are unhindered by language or cultural differences.

Noel Thevenet

Our gal in Paris

Candie Watkins

Candie has been pitching the press since they were banging out their stories on manual typewriters…almost anyway. A seasoned veteran of tech PR, she provides an attention to detail that covers up any cracks through which things often fall. A native of Silicon Valley but world journeyer by nature, she takes the island philosophy seriously, holding down our bureau in the Dominican Republic where she now calls home.

Candie Watkins

No woman is an island

Ian Taylor

Taylor, Ian Taylor. Ian runs our European outpost with Bond-like smoothness and agility mixing with journalists as coolly as gin takes to tonic. A multi-lingual talent, with British sensibilities and dry wit, Ian’s calm demeanor and charm belie a fervent creative energy constantly brewing beneath the surface. With an eye for detail, he is a master at turning a phrase with remarkable precision, and possesses a striking sixth sense for the perfect venue to entertain. Countless high-level assignments have seen him criss-crossing the globe, elevating his clients’ messaging with hitman-like effectiveness.

Ian Taylor

International Agent

Lynda Kaye

Lynda, our long-term partner at Kaye PR, adds technical chops to the WI team as she is the only one among us who has ever actually designed a computer chip. She has since honed her PR and comm skills to be able to provide expert advice on messaging strategy to the most techy of clients, always delivered with her unique flair and style. Based west of the west coast in beautiful Tofino, BC, her zoom calls often include a view of orcas passing by her office window (and we know it’s not a fake background)

Lynda Kaye

Always chipper and chippy

Ron Wilson

Our master scribe and translator of superfluous jargon, this wily veteran draws on his award-winning tech journalism experience to weave masterful prose on even the most arcane topics. A fan of the Oxford comma and an AP style guide always at the ready, Ron cuts to the essence of technology nuances no matter what overbearing word count he is confined to. Don’t mind the print ink on his fingers, a residue of the golden age of journalism he occasionally pines for.

Ron Wilson

Hemingway of Tech

Where brand stories grow.

Based on many years of working with global clients, Wired Island has particular expertise in helping international startups, scale-ups, and mid-stage companies establish a presence and build awareness in the US market.

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