Adam Keats is a vice president with Weber Shandwick, focusing on interactive marketing and online communications. With more than 11 years of interactive and public relations interactive experience, Keats is responsible for providing senior-level strategic counsel and managing large-scale interactive projects, ranging from Web site production to interactive marketing (e-mail, search engines, online community partnerships, blogs, etc.) to online crisis communications.

His client experience includes Unilever/Axe, Microsoft (Xbox), Barilla, Johnson & Johnson, Char-Broil, Kraft, and the State of New Mexico.

Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Keats led the Chicago interactive team for Edelman, the world's largest independent public relations agency. While there, he oversaw all day-to-day activity in the Chicago office, co-led the national account management team and played a leading role in helping clients handle online crisis communications.

Prior to Edelman, Keats worked at Public Communications, Inc., a midsize Chicago PR firm and wrote for the Chicago Tribune. He still serves as a member of the official statistics team for the NFL's Chicago Bears.

Keats is a cum laude graduate of the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and minored in journalism.

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