Joanna Doven
Founder, CEO
Joanna Doven, one of the U.S.’s youngest big city mayoral press secretaries, led communications for the 2009 G-20 Economic Summit and in 2013 founded a public relations firm, Premo Consultants. She has since helped some of the world’s largest companies and institutions obtain national media exposure, navigate crises and reinvent their brands. An energetic and dynamic leader, Joanna’s no-barriers approach in helping clients unearth opportunities through informing and leveraging deep media relationships has earned her company’s respect from renowned business and nonprofit leaders. Her firm has led strategic public relations campaigns for renowned stakeholders, executed significant full-scale rebranding efforts for financial service institutions, and aided in crisis communications planning for major institutions and corporations. Joanna is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where she guest lectures graduate students, guest talk show host on the world’s first radio station, KDKA. She recently launched “On Crisis”, a podcast that features Doven talking with leaders whose experiences with crisis management run the gamut from skillful leadership that led to better brand recognition to those whose mistakes resulted in dire consequences for the brands they serve.