We are advocates for our clients, assisting them in developing their voices and communicating with their public audiences, in local communities or around the globe. We help clients with complex and challenging public issues and provide strategic planning and marketing communications services.

About Us

Lonnie Soury

Lonnie SouryLonnie Soury is President of Soury Communications, Inc., a full service communications company specializing in public relations, public policy, government affairs, media and crisis communication, advertising, marketing and special events.

Mr. Soury has thirty years experience in the communications field, having managed some of the industry's largest and most prominent businesses.

Mr. Soury is an expert in media relations and public policy. He has handled public relations for companies such as General Motors, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, JVC Electronics, SPIN Magazine. He has also represented Ticketmaster, The Grammy Awards, AETNA Health, Warner Music Group, Sun International Hotels and Blockbuster.

Mr. Soury was a public affairs director in government where he served in three mayoral administrations. He managed the public policy strategies for some of the most sensitive and important issues in government, from land use and planning to race and ethnic relations.

Lonnie Soury is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of SUNY at Buffalo. He received his MSW in Community and Social Planning.

Marlene Dann

Marlene Dann is an experienced media strategist. She is an award-winning television executive with extensive experience in news and entertainment programming. She was executive vice president, head of daytime programming at Court TV, and managed all content, production, talent management, and branding. She created talk shows with such high profile hosts as Nancy Grace, Star Jones, and Catherine Crier. Dann hired and developed distinguished anchors and correspondents, many of whom are now among television’s most sought after legal analysts. Under her watch, Court TV became the leading destination for legal news. Trial coverage on high profile cases regularly attracted large audiences and garnered some of the highest ratings in the network’s daytime history.

She oversaw the production of breaking news hours as well as a weekly magazine show about Hollywood and the law. Dann was one of the company’s key executives for over a decade. She won various awards for her work at Court TV, including being voted one of the top fifty women in cable television.

Dann created and launched prime time talk programs for CNBC, including the critically acclaimed Charles Grodin, and developed and produced a series whose many hosts included Tim Russert, Mary Matalin, Al Roker, and Phil Donahue. She produced documentaries on such issues as immigration and domestic violence, and was a reporter for Fortune Magazine.

Dann earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the New School for Social Research. She successfully completed the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. Dann is on the board of directors for the Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice.

Bob Davis

BOb DavisOver the course of his career, Bob Davis has been a broadcast and cable TV producer and executive, a corporate communications and public relations executive, and an independent television writer/producer/executive producer. Among his many credits, Mr. Davis was the creator of more than 90 weekly hours of original programming for the launch of the cable network CNBC, creator of the original syndicated Asia Business News, one of the two creators of the Live at Five News program for WNBC-TV, New York and one of the developers of the Disney syndicated Today’s Business program.

Mr. Davis is currently a principal in the communications and marketing firm Soury Communications, and the communications and TV production company Immediate Media, Inc. in New York City. Immediately prior to that he was a partner in charge of communications, public relations and marketing for the New York-based media private equity firm, InterMedia Partners. Working directly with Managing Partner, Leo Hindery, Mr. Davis drafted, edited and placed OpEds on environmental, economic, trade and media issues.

Mr. Davis was Executive Vice President, Communications of the YES Network, (TV home of the NY Yankees,) responsible for public relations, advertising, marketing and lobbying (in Albany and Trenton) immediately prior to joining InterMedia Partners. Before joining YES, Mr. Davis was Senior Vice President of Rubenstein Associates where he represented a variety of public affairs, public relations and crisis management clients. Prior to that, Mr. Davis was a partner in The Riverside Group, advising cable TV start-ups and local TV news operations, media coaching and writing and producing TV programs. Clients included The Pet Network and the Corporation for Entertainment and Learning (CEL), where he wrote and produced half-hour programs using the existing CEL news archive.

Before starting The Riverside Group, Mr. Davis was VP and Executive Producer of CNBC, where from its inception he was responsible for the conception, development, production, staffing and budgeting of all programming. From 1980-1984, Mr. Davis was Assistant News Director and then News Director of WNBC-TV, New York and prior to that Mr. Davis was Executive Producer of New York’s WABC-TV News, Documentary Producer, Writer and Editor.

Mr. Davis is a graduate of Hunter College in New York City and is married to a television writer/producer.