McGrath/Power Public Relations and Communications

Specialties

McGrath/​Power Public Relations and Communications, Silicon Valley’s most established digital communications and public relations agency, specializes in connecting people, creating engagement and driving business outcomes. For more than 30 years, we’ve used creative public relations and communications approaches to drive tangible business outcomes for business-​to-​business and consumer technology leaders, start-​ups and those in between. Our bi-​coastal U.S. presence and offices around the world give us diverse vantage points to forge engagement with target audiences and create the industry’s biggest success stories.

History

Established in 1983.

McGrath/​Power Public Relations was founded in 1973 in New York by former journalists Lee McGrath and Larry Power. In 1983, the Agency tapped another pair of former journalists, Jonathan Bloom and Terri Foos Cook, to establish the M/​P brand on the West Coast. Today, M/​P is led by Bloom and Kate Walker, who formerly ran corporate communications for publicly traded technology leaders Borland and Internet Security Systems.

From the outset, M/​P rapidly became one of New York’s première public relations firms for B2B and B2C brands, including American Express Financial Services Reebok, Nikon, The Jacques Cousteau Society and Wild Turkey. The PR firm entered the technology market in 1983 — before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley. The technology public relations firm has worked successfully with clients at all stages of growth and awareness, including Cisco, TiVo, Vodafone, Symantec, RSA Security, The Open Networking Foundation, SanDisk and LiveOps.

Meet the Business Owner

Jonathan B.

Business Owner

Jon Bloom has built McGrath/​Power into one of the country’s best-​regarded technology public relations firms for consumer and business clients. He develops and directs over-​arching strategy for all Agency clients. He also uses his news reporting background at the San Jose Mercury News and the Associated Press to create new ways for companies and their C-​level executives to tell their stories and connect with their target audiences. Bloom co-​founded M/​P in Silicon Valley in 1983 and has successfully developed broad national/​international public relations programs in consumer electronics, business-​to-​business technology, athletic footwear, travel, pharmaceutical, food, and professional services. He is regularly credited by Clients for his strategies that drive outcomes in the form of increased sales, corporate acquisitions, competitive depositioning and creating new market segments. Bloom has served on multiple boards, including the Worldcom Public Relations Group.