Agency Leadership

> Constantine Theodoropulos
> Amanda McCarthy
> Kam Hashim
> Mike Newsom

Constantine Theodoropulos
Constantine is an experienced marketing and communications professional. With expertise in positioning, he works with companies to identify the reason why they will win in the marketplace, and designs and implements the communications strategies and tactics resulting in recognized, premium brands.

As president of Boston Communications, he has turned the independent public relations firm into a highly regarded boutique agency known for turning emerging technology companies into leading industry thought leaders.

As founder and president of Base Pair Communications, Constantine works with biotechnology, medtech and healthcare-related companies to align business strategy with marketing; and designs and implement marketing and communications initiatives resulting in market leadership. Working with selected partners, he helps clients achieve strategic goals such as capital raising, business development, M&A, and strategic partnering.

Constantine serves as the head of corporate communications for EBD Group, the leading international partnering firm for the life sciences. In this role he is responsible EBD’s reputation management, along with communications and branding strategies for the global company’s partnering conferences (BIO-Europe, BIO-Europe Spring, BioPharm America, EuroMedtech and ChinaBio Partnering Forum), software solutions and consulting services.

He also serves as managing editor of partneringNews, the online life sciences news forum and blog for the biotech partnering community.

Constantine regularly serves as an advisor to senior executives, boards of directors and venture capitalists.

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Amanda McCarthy
Amanda McCarthy's professional experience includes work as a telecom analyst for Forrester Research and the Yankee Group. Her telecommunications expertise is in wireless and mobile data services, devices and applications as well as consumer and enterprise adoption of communications services like VOIP, multimedia messaging, and VPNs. She has researched fixed network infrastructure (WANs, LANs, specialized networks like SANs), conducting primary research including surveys and interviews, of end-users and enterprise decision-makers (network administrators, strategy and marketing executives and CTOs). Findings have included rates of growth, adoption trends and forecasts, opportunities and challenges and demand for infrastructure and technology, particularly disruptive and displacement communications technologies. Her research has been widely cited in both the strategic marketing plans of major players such as Sprint, NEXTEL along with multiple start-up firms, as well as appearing in publications such as the WSJ. In addition to the high technology field, Ms McCarthy has applied her market research skills to other areas, for example contributing political and economic analysis and content to the World Economic Forum (Davos) as well as Massachusetts's economic development agency, for which she acted as research manager. Ms McCarthy is a skilled business writer and effective communicator able to count superior client service as a key capability.

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Kam Hashim
Kam is an expert in media and analyst relations. He draws on an extensive library of press and analyst contacts he has built to help drive clients’ messages into the marketplace. He has over eight years of experience working with clients in telecommunications, Internet security, and enterprise storage. Kam is also a highly skilled account manager, adept at maintaining the day-to-day client account infrastructure. He holds a master of science in mass communications from Boston University.

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Mike Newsom
During the course of a 20-year career (described below), Mike has developed a wealth of experience in telecom and IT technologies (from chips to systems, wireless and wireline), services (e.g., “triple play” and video), policy issues and consumer topics and a vast network of excellent contacts in the press, “online” and analyst communities to provide important benefits to Boston Communications clients.

Mike understands in particular the needs of and challenges facing “start up” companies in the volatile telecoms sector. Mike has successfully represented many such companies throughout its history, including: Agilent, Bandwidth9, CoreOptics, Corvis, Infinera, Innovance Networks, Meriton Networks, Metro Optix, Movaz Networks, NeoPhotonics, Newport Networks, ONI Systems, OpVista, Parama Networks, TeleCIS Wireless, Wavesat and Wave7 Optics.

In addition, larger publicly held companies such as Tellabs and PCTel, a provider of broadband wireless gateway and client products for consumers and service providers, have engaged Mike for media and analyst relations projects and ongoing programs.

Over the years Mike’s clients have won many awards and recent recognition includes: Frost & Sullivan “Excellence in Technology” award 2008, Deloitte “Fast 50” company honors in 2007 and 2008, a “Best Business Leader” award from “Small Times” magazine in 2006, Red Herring “Top 100” Private Company in 2006, “Technology Pioneer” for 2005 by the World Economic Forum in Geneva, “Hot Start Up” designations from major trade press, Light Reading “Top Ten” lists and “Leading Lights” awards finalists and Superquest awards from Supercomm/NXTComm.

From 1998 to 2001, Mike served as “Senior Counsel” for the Telecommunications practice group of Miller/Shandwick Technologies (M/ST, later Weber Shandwick Worldwide). In that capacity, he provided counsel for account teams around the global Shandwick network and worked with a wide variety of clients, including HP’s T&M division (now Agilent) and Compaq. Business areas comprised, among others, computer and broadband network Internet service initiatives, advanced fiber optic networks, satellite services, unified messaging services, terrestrial wireless networks and test and measurement within telephone networks.

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