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Connect Media Adds Marketing/Events Veteran Carol Atkins to Chicago Team

Connect Media is pleased to announce that it has retained Carol Atkins, President, A.M. Real Estate Communications, LLC, to produce its Connect Conferences in Chicago and the Midwest as a conference & media consultant. Her first conference for Connect Media will be this year’s Connect Chicago, scheduled for May 14.

Atkins has over 30 years’ commercial real estate experience, and has provided marketing, sales, event coordination/planning/sponsorship sales, recruiting, PR and consulting services to a variety of commercial real estate clients, along with conferences related to the commercial real estate industry.

She also launched and was publisher of Black’s Guide, a semi-annual directory of detailed office and industrial properties in Chicago as well as Michigan and San Diego.

Additionally, Atkins has worked as a commercial real estate executive recruiter and as a leasing broker/representative for JMB Realty Corp. and Welsh Companies in Minneapolis. She began her career in commercial real estate selling advertising for National Real Estate Investor and Shopping Center World publications.  Atkins holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“We’re excited to welcome Carol to our team,” said Daniel Ceniceros, president of Connect Media. “She’s on a first-name basis with Chicago’s dealmakers, and understands the drivers of the market. Coupled with her extensive experience in marketing and event planning, Carol’s industry knowledge will propel us forward in the region.”

Connect Chicago is coming up on May 14! Click here to register for the event.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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