Our Team

Weiss PR Associates is led by two senior-level professionals who combined bring nearly 40 years of public relations experience to their clients.

Ray Weiss, President

Ray has 30 years of experience in public relations. Before starting his own firm in 2008, Ray held public relations positions in academia, economic development, and the legal community. He joined a national public relations firm as a Partner in 1992, establishing that firm’s Baltimore office and successfully managing it for 16 years.

Ray has created and implemented communications initiatives for a wide range of major corporations and non-profits, including The National Federation of the Blind, Sylvan, Venable, and the Maryland State Department of Education. He also developed a thriving crisis communications practice and staged numerous special events (including Pope John Paul II’s 1995 Visit to the United States and a benefit concert featuring Johnny Cash).

Under Ray’s leadership, Weiss PR has grown rapidly, more than doubling in size in its first year in business. Today, the firm has clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic, as well as in Cleveland, Hartford, Raleigh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, and Southern California.

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Jessica Trzyna, Executive Vice President

Jessica has over 10 years experience in the Public Relations field where she has specialized in working with small to mid-sized companies and organizations across the country, developing and managing results-driven strategic communications programs and initiatives. As Executive Vice President at Weiss PR, she is also integral in managing client relationships as well as the strategic direction of the firm.

Previously, Jessica served as a vice president at a national public relations firm, where she specialized in crisis communications, event planning, and strategic media relations on behalf of the firm’s serious gaming, wireless, employee benefit, and education clients, including Sprint. Additionally, Jessica managed local, regional, and national media relations campaigns for national education initiatives and new product launches, resulting in favorable coverage in some of the nation’s most prestigious business, technology, and trade media.

Jessica is a two-time winner of the public relations profession’s most prestigious award, The Silver Anvil. She served as the point person for the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education’s regional outreach program, “Achievement Counts” as well as the Greater Baltimore Technology Council’s community relations program, “Mosh Pit.”

Before joining her previous public relations firm, Jessica handled public affairs activities for a large Mid-Atlantic-based regional electric utility company, where she focused on crisis communications, internal communications, and community relations. Jessica also served as the spokesperson for the utility company.

Jessica is a graduate of Salisbury University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, with an emphasis in Public Relations, and a minor in French. She lives in Owings Mills, MD with her husband and cat, Toaster (who was recently published in the Cat Lovers Book of Days and in the Cat Fancy calendars). In her spare time, Jessica enjoys scuba diving and traveling to remote locations around the world with her family, as well as volunteering with various animal shelters and fostering special needs cats. She also supports a variety of environmental and animal rights causes.

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