Ryan J. Donovan

Director of the News function in Corporate Communications, Hewlett Packard

Ryan Donovan is the director of the News function in Corporate Communications at HP, where he is responsible for “breaking news,” International, Workplace/HR, Brand marketing, Crisis/Legal, Ethics, Blog Media Relations, Brand/Design, Competitive, Regional and HP News. Dept. functions. He and his team manages quarterly earnings releases, liaison with all U.S. foreign correspondents for overseas-based media; communications for the worldwide workplace/HR initiative, brand marketing, top 15 U.S. metro market and HP News Dept., which edits and disseminates all HP press releases, issues a Daily News Report that tracks all HP and competitor press coverage and manages a media contact management tool, Vocus. As part of responsibilities, Donovan and his team ensures that key media relationships are managed and nurtured and these critical day-to-day programs PR contribute to HP’s core strategies. He currently oversees the Corporate Analyst Relations function in an interim capacity. In 2007, Donovan was posted in Singapore for three months, overseeing media relations for HP’s Asia/Pacific and Japan region and traveling extensively throughout the region.

Donovan has been involved in many key initiatives for the $100BN company. Among them, the appointment of a new CEO and President; the $4.5BN acquisition of Mercury Interactive; and, serving as one of two principal spokespeople during the Board leak investigation crisis of September 2006.

Prior to HP Corporate, Donovan spent nearly two years in HP’s Technology Solutions Group (TSG), a $31BN unit that serves corporate and SMB customers. In 2003, He began his HP career as Director of PR for HP Services, managing a corporate positioning program for Ann Livermore, EVP. He eventually ran all AR and PR for TSG before being recruited to Corporate Communications in March 2005.

Prior to HP, Donovan spent nearly 14 years in the PR agency world, serving most recently as Associate Director of Ketchum’s Global Technology Practice and new business development leader for Ketchum West. Before Ketchum, he spent four and a half years at Text 100 in San Francisco, starting as San Francisco GM, growing that office from 6 to 55 people during the technology boom. He helped win several key clients including IBM and during his tenure as GM, no member of the agency team left the company to join another agency.

Donovan joined Text 100 from Ketchum Thomas, where he led portions of the Sun Microsystems account and pitched more than 250 companies during his tenure. He spent the first six years of his career in the Chicago market, working for Bozell Inc. (now Weber Shandwick), Kemper Lesnik and Golin Harris.

He is a President-elect of the Silicon Valley chapter of PRSA 2008, holds a B.S. degree in Journalism from the University of Iowa and did graduate work at the City University of London, London UK. He resides in Woodside, California.