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NINA BONDAROOK
Bondarook & Associates, LLC.
Bondarook & Associates, LLC.
Nina Bondarook, CEO of Bondarook & Associates LLC and principal consultant with Premium PR, is the founder of Startup Sisters. For more than 20 years she has been helping clients of all sizes meet their business objectives through cost-effective public relations, marketing and other communication-related services. Along the way, she has built and managed several companies, and enjoys using the power of technology to level the global business playing field. So it's no surprise she would bring together other entrepreneurs to help women start and grow their own businesses.
During the Internet boon years, Bondarook was a director, senior vice president and general manager with international public relations and corporate communications agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. After the tech implosion, she returned to Seattle where she had previously managed a team at Waggener Edstrom, which supported corporate communications at Microsoft. Before moving to the northwest, she specialized in health care, education, nonprofit, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and government-related public relations, and was one of the first PR consultants in Denver to provide services targeting ethnic audiences.
Her background as an award-winning journalist enables her to quickly translate even the most complex information into compelling stories and easy-to-understand messages that resonate with target audiences, drive specific behaviors, and help companies compete and thrive. An Internet pioneer, Bondarook created The Seattle Times Extra, the newspaper’s first on-line service. She also was director of on-line business development and helped publish the world’s first monthly CD-Rom news magazine at Medio Multimedia.
Bondarook has served on the boards of IntraCom Corp. and Slim Devices Inc. in Silicon Valley, the Catamount Institute in Colorado Springs, and the American Cancer Society in Denver. She also is a past president and treasurer of Colorado and Washington chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, and was on the board of the Association for Women in Communications, She is a life-member of the National Federation of Press Women and is a volunteer with the Taproot Foundation, providing pro bono PR, marketing and communication services for Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations. She also is a volunteer with Seattle GiveCamp, one of 15 marathon work weekends conducted annually in 15 cities across the U.S. by the national GiveCamp organization, to provide nonprofit organizations with free software development, Web design, database and other IT-related assistance.
She has a Master’s in Applied Communication from the University of Denver, a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Arizona State University, and studied in the former Soviet Union, England, and France.