Tom Madden"Tom Madden is the quintessential "spin man." Telling him to stop spinning, inventing products, and writing books is like telling the government to stop spending money"€"it's pointless. Madden's rise in the world of media was meteoric, evolvingfrom career reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer to speechwriter. He eventually became a highly ranked executive at NBC, serving as Vice President, Assistant to the President under then-CEO Fred Silverman, for whom Madden also wrote speeches when he was Director of PR Planning at American Broadcasting Companies. When television wunderkind Silverman became CEO of NBC, Madden was the only ABC executive he took with him. After departing NBC, Madden launched his own award-winning public relations firm, TransMedia Group. The firm is now based in Boca Raton, Florida, and has offices located worldwide, including in Rome, Italy. He has since won many awards, including the Public Relations Society of America's Bronze Anvil for a PR campaign that he co Read More Read Less