Landis Communications Inc. (LCI)
San Francisco,
California, USA

OFFICE LOCATION(S)
San Francisco - California (USA)Silicon Valley - California (USA)
EMPLOYEES
15
HEADQUARTERS
2032 Scott St.
San Francisco, California, 94115
USA
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Services
- Community Relations
- Content Creation
- Corporate Communications
- Creative Services
- Crisis Communications and Crisis Management
- Digital Marketing
- Employee Relations
- Events and Campaigns
- Influencer Marketing
- Investor Relations
- Marketing
- Media and Presentation Training
- Media Relations
- Messaging
- Other
- Product and Brand Launches
- Public Relations
- Reputation Management
- Social Media and Marketing
- Video Production
- Website and App Development
Industry Expertise
- Agriculture / Forestry / Farming
- Arts / Entertainment
- Automotive Public Relations
- Aviation and Aerospace
- Beauty
- Biotech / Life Sciences
- Building / Construction / Architecture
- Consumer Products
- Consumer Technology
- Digital
- Education
- Environment / Waste
- Environmental
- Family
- Fashion
- Financial / Banking / Investment
- Fitness
- Food and Drink
- Healthcare / Nutrition
- Hotels
- Legal
- LGBT
- Lifestyle
- Luxury
- Media and Broadcast
- Not-for-Profit / Charities
- Other
- Pharmaceuticals / Medical
- Professional Services
- Publishing
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Sports
- Technology
- Tourism / Travel
- Transportation
- Youth / Children's Interest
Sean Dowdall - President
Sean Dowdall is a 28-year financial services marketing, sales, and public relations executive specializing in the innovation, creation, and successful delivery to market of strategic initiatives, ongoing capabilities, and fully-integrated campaigns. He provides strategic counsel to LCI clients, oversees the marketing and digital practice areas, and supervises financial management for the agency.
The son of a banker, he started his banking career at his father’s local bank on the Flathead Indian Reservation in his hometown of Polson, Montana. Mr. Dowdall most recently was Chief Marketing Officer for Rabobank, N.A., the American retail bank affiliate of the Dutch financial services giant, the Rabobank Group. During his 4 year tenure, the bank doubled in size through three acquisitions and double-digit organic growth of its deposit and business lending portfolios, it received the “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Retail Banking in California” from J.D. Power and Associates for three years in a row and became known as a leader in agriculture financing and community involvement. At Rabobank, he built and expanded the digital channel management, marketing, public relations, and product development teams. He was a key spokesperson for the bank and developed a leading public relations capability focusing on the agriculture industry and hyper-local branding. Prior to Rabobank, Sean headed a variety of marketing, sales, public relations, and digital/Internet functions at Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America covering consumer, wealth, and small business segments. He has led successful public relations campaigns to launch the Loans.com brand and new products. Also, Sean led strategic media partnerships with Meredith Publishing, Sunset Magazine, and Yahoo. He graduated from Santa Clara University (BS in Finance) and the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). He also studied in Tokyo, Japan during his junior year of college. He served as President of the Board of ODC San Francisco for 5 years during 2 $10 million capital campaigns to expand the ODC campus supporting more than 200 dance classes every week and an active 200-seat performing arts theatre. Sean Dowdall is married to David Landis, CEO/President of LCI
E: sean@landispr.com
P: 415.359.2313
Brianne Murphy Miller - Business Development Manager
Brianne Murphy Miller has spent close to 25 years in communications and marketing. As Senior Consultant and Business Development Manager at LCI, she is responsible for strategic counsel to a myriad of LCI clients, as well as overseeing all sales, marketing and business development needs for the agency. Prior to her work with LCI, Ms. Miller was VP Communications for TeeBeeDee, an online social network for baby boomers. The launch of that company was covered by media internationally and lauded as one of the hottest new tech start-ups of the year. Previously, she ran her own consultancy, B. & Company, for ten years, serving clients in the lifestyle, media, and tech industries. Ms. Miller also was Director of Public Relations for Kamer~Singer & Associates, a full service public relations and public affairs agency. There, she was responsible for the travel and hospitality division and new business. Her first foray into consumer technology was as Vice President of Marketing for Ifusion.com, which developed push technology software. She joined Ifusion.com after more than five years as Communications Director at Sunset Publishing Corporation. In that capacity, Ms. Miller was in charge of all public relations programs for the largest publishing company in the Western United States. She also helped launch their new media division, consumer expo programs and oversaw all trade show publicity efforts. Before migrating West, Ms. Miller worked in her native New York City for fashion designer Adrienne Vittadini and at GLAMOUR Magazine. She started her career at advertising agency Wells, Rich, Greene Inc., where she was part of the team that began the resurgent popularity of the Senior PGA Tour with client Liberty Mutual Insurance. Ms. Miller is a graduate of Fairfield University and holds a B.A. in English and Communications. She is a former board member of the San Francisco Public Relations Roundtable, has been guest lecturer at University of California Berkeley, and is involved in numerous local charities.