President

Avery Horzewski, President
Avery is a marketing and customer communications consultant, currently serving her fifth year on Women in Consulting’s (WIC) board of directors.

Avery began her career as a Marcom writer at Hitachi Data Systems, where she wrote everything from executive-level brochures to white papers to data sheets to gift and product catalogs. Before leaving Hitachi Data Systems to consult full time, Avery advanced to the position of Director, Web Content and Design. In this role, she was responsible for setting the creative direction, planning overall site strategy, and managing the day-to-day responsibilities of the corporate website.

Avery is president of AVE Consulting, a marketing and customer communications consulting firm that helps companies of all sizes develop and refine their communication strategies. She regularly speaks about social media to groups interested in learning more about this new communication medium, its impact on business, and best practices for implementing. She’s also an instructor at San Francisco State’s College of Extended Learning. Her class “Engaging Your Community: Creating an Effective Social Media Campaign” is slated for Spring 2010.

Avery holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Speech Communication from California State University, Hayward. She has also taught public speaking and argumentation theory courses at California State University, Hayward and University of Utah. Representative clients include ACT Medical, Adobe Systems, Alan Biller & Associates, Aruba Networks, Borland, CareFusion, Cisco Systems, Cooley Godward, Coremetrics, E*TRADE, Exordium Group, Logitech, Netflix, NETGEAR, SAP, and Symantec.

Avery regularly shares ideas on the AVE Consulting Blog, WIC Consulting Blog, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

avery@aveconsulting.com, 408-528-7138