About

Creative Copywriter

Dan Smith has worked as a journalist, speechwriter, media-relations strategist and internal change agent. Today, he's a creative copywriter ready to work for your success. A sampling of clients and works include:

  • Texas Instruments: Speech writing, including a Nobel Prize in Physics acceptance lecture, two Consumer Electronics Show keynotes, investor presentations and speeches at 3GSM World Congress, CDMA Americas, IEEE forums, and Stanford University speaker series.
  • Hillwood, a Perot Company: Website strategy and design, web copy.
  • LinkedIn: Support for thought leadership and CEO media interviews.
  • Dell Services / Perot Systems: Keynote to EastWest Institute's Worldwide Security Conference in Brussels. Chairman's IT services briefing and remarks to World Economic Forum healthcare session in Davos.
  • Hawaiian Telcom: Change communications, media relations, keynote to Hawaii Telecommunications Association.
  • GTE (now part of Verizon): Keynotes to NAACP annual meeting, Economic Policy Institute, Harvard Club of New York City, Goldman Sachs and other investor conferences, speaker series at Cornell University and University of Texas at Austin.

Testimonials

“Dan is the finest PR professional I have worked with in my career. He has done a fabulous job promoting PAETEC in a very cost-effective manner.”-- Chief Marketing Officer and EVP,  PAETEC


“Dan has an outstanding ability to work with senior team members, understand overall goals and objectives, and quickly discern what's critical and what's not. That overall insight also helps him write a range of materials needed to move the business forward.” -- VP & Chief of Staff, McLeodUSA


“Dan Smith is a consummate professional: exceptionally talented, totally dependable, and a trusted colleague and adviser on matters great and small." -- Director of Training & Organizational Development, Hawaiian Telcom