Profile
Prior to beginning his career in the Web, Eric Stoltz was a marketing and communications professional for nearly 20 years. He has been twice awarded the nation's highest public relations honor, the Silver Anvil.
Before setting out into Web development, Eric was senior vice president and co-managing director at EvansGroup, where he set up the agency's first Los Angeles public relations office. He had formerly served as a vice president in the Los Angeles office of The Rowland Company. While there, he headed up new business activities and directed programs for consumer marketing and not-for-profit clients.
Prior to his service at The Rowland Company, Eric established and directed the Western public relations function for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), the world's largest AIDS organization. He designed and managed complex and multi-faceted public relations initiatives for AmFAR in states west of the Mississippi River. His programs there included community relations, donor communications, product copromotions, event sponsorship, collateral production, advocacy and a news bureau, serving as spokesperson for the foundation on breaking news events with major media throughout the nation. For his activities at AmFAR, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) honored him with the Silver Anvil for not-for-profit programming in 1994.
While at Pollare/Fischer Communications in Los Angeles, Eric established and built a consumer marketing practice for this agency that formerly specialized in technology, bringing in more than $1 million in new consumer and not-for-profit business. He created the 1990 Silver Anvil-winning program for Westec Security. Eric represented the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation while at Aaron D. Cushman & Associates.
A native Angeleno and alumnus of the public relations program at the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, Eric is a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). He has served as vice chair of L.A. Shanti Foundation, the city's oldest AIDS service organization. He has been an instructor in public relations at the University of California, Los Angeles and has received dozens of awards for excellence in public relations from the Public Relations Society of America, the International Association of Business Communicators, Inside PR Magazine and the Publicity Club of Los Angeles. He was accredited (APR) by PRSA in 1988. In 2004, Eric was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacon for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by Cardinal Roger Mahony.
Like most in the digital world, Eric is a self-taught Web developer. He began developing Web sites just as the Internet began to take hold in American life, and made his first site in PageMill 1.0. He quickly switched to Dreamweaver when it first came out and has never looked back since. He steadfastly refuses to learn anything about Microsoft FrontPage or Publisher. He spends countless hours at his Mac with two Abyssinian cats, Phoebe and Irene, supervising his activities.
