WebAward Judge Profile: Gerard Corbett
Redphlag LLC
Founder, Chair & CEO
Gerard F. Corbett is Founder, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Redphlag, a strategic public relations, marketing management and executive coaching consulting firm, a position he has held since January 2008. He also served as 2012 Chair & CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA,) the world’s largest member organization of public relations practitioners. He is accredited in public relations (APR) and a member of the PRSA College of Fellows. He serves on the board of advisors of AI and VR consulting firm Infinite Retina and the Museum of Public Relations.
Mr. Corbett also served as Chief Marketing Officer of Producers Forum, Inc., a real estate web start up in Palo, Alto, CA; former Adjunct Professor in Public Relations at San Jose State University and Branding Instructor at UC Berkeley; and blogs extensively on career management in the PR field for his own blog and for TalentZoo.com, CareerThoughtleaders.com and HireCentrix.com.
Mr. Corbett has more than four decades of experience in technology, corporate communications and public relations. Prior to Redphlag, he was vice president for 13 years of the Branding and Corporate Communications Group and general manager of Web Strategy Center of Hitachi, Ltd., a $100 billion Tokyo based technology company. He previously served several other leading Fortune 200 firms, including Loral Corporation, ASARCO Incorporated, Gould Inc. and International Harvester Company. He also was program manager and senior account executive with the public relations firm of Creamer Dickson Basford in Providence, RI. He launched his career in Silicon Valley as a scientific programmer at the NASA Ames Research Center.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr. Corbett has a B.A. in public relations from San Jose State University and an A.A. with a major in electronics engineering from the Community College of Philadelphia.
In addition to his role in PRSA, Mr. Corbett is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; a member of the board and past president of the International Advertising Association/West; and a past member of the Arthur Page Society and National Investor Relations Institute. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, San Francisco PR Roundtable, and Kappa Tau Alpha, the National Journalism Honor Society. He also served from 2008 to 2014 as Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of Kids’ Turn, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization focused on families in transition.
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