Topic: ‘Karen Riordan’

The Washington Business Journal honored 25 incredible women, all local leaders in the greater Washington DC business community, last week at their annual “Women Who Mean Business” 2012…. SmithGifford’s own, Karen Riordan was among those honored.
I know Karen would say that she was both humbled and honored to be included with such an amazing group of local business leaders, who just happen to be women. But for those of us here at SmithGifford who work with her every

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If you know Karen, you know she LOVES chocolate. So what a better way to say Happy Birthday than a delicious, flowing, chocolate fountain! Strawberries, bananas and even potato chips–I would tell you more, but I think the picture above does a great job of saying it all.
Karen – you make each of us better. We’re lucky to have you as your Commander in Chief and wish you all the best on this chocolate filled day! Happy Birthday!

The lord works in mysterious ways. Ever since we discovered St. Bernardine, the Patron Saint of Advertising and Public Relations, and successfully pitched him as a theme for this year’s ADDY Awards, we have been blessed with a holy trinity of good fortune. The first, of course, is that Karen Riordan… has agreed to join our agency as our new president. The second is a new business win just last week. And the third is that Father Guido Sarducci has

If you know anything about Karen you’ll know that after her impressive tenure at Arnold Worldwide she could be going anywhere in the world. But she chose SmithGifford as her next home. We’re so excited we can barely sit down long enough to write this. But equally important, she chose to stay here in DC. Because like us, she believes in the DC advertising community and is staying to help it (and us) grow. Our agency had it’s most successful…