ABOUT US

Our Founder:

2Bridge President and Founder Ken Stram is a business advocate with a thorough understanding of media relations and hands-on experience crafting and delivering clear, timely messages. He has more than 20 years of experience in public relations and business development. He's worked with hundreds of small businesses, dozens of high-tech firms, a variety of nonprofit organizations, and a cross-section of city, state, and federal government agencies.

Over the years, Ken has become an expert at helping organizations achieve their business goals and objectives through strategic message development, public relations, marketing, public policy, and business development activities. Ken also has a knack for helping clients to identify new business opportunities.

• Originally from Pennsylvania, Ken earned his BA and JD degrees at the University of Pittsburgh.
• Ken has built groundbreaking new programs that have served diverse populations locally, regionally, and nationally.
• He has acted as spokesman for federal government agencies, multi-cultural collaborations, employee organizations, non-profit institutions, and Fortune 500 companies.
• He served as the Associate Administrator for Field Operations at the U.S. Small Business Administration with responsibility for directing the activities of the Agency's 2,000 field employees, a budget of $87 million.
• Ken moved with his partner to San Francisco in the late 1990s.
• Initially, he worked for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce marketing the city to attract biotech businesses to the new Mission Bay Development.
• He experienced the dot-com bubble as a member of the Technology Practice at Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations firm, where he became a strategic positioning expert and led public relations campaigns on behalf of dot-com clients.
• He founded the first-ever economic development program for San Francisco's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community, a model program that helped LGBT community members find jobs and start small businesses to unlock the potential of the whole community.
• Ken launched 2Bridge Communications in 2001 to help visionary companies outperform their competitors.

"Through interviews, research, and smarts, Ken first did a thorough and penetrating analysis and plan. He then made a number of powerful and insightful recommendations that ended up being the strategic framework for our communications efforts going forward, not to mention a valuable and central part of all marketing efforts at my company. Ken was a wonderful advisor, a brilliant and insightful partner, and someone that was a gentle yet firm voice for what was and is needed for the success of my business."

-David Peck, Executive Coach and President/Leadership Unleashed