About Us

By distilling our clients’ unique perspectives on their industries into compelling media pitches, SRPR works closely with clients to meet their media relations objectives. Our successful approach is also based on understanding and meeting the needs of journalists, positioning our clients as experts who are repeatedly sought out by the media.

We have directly placed clients in numerous top-tier media outlets, including regular placements in Time, CNBC, CNN, ABC, Fox News, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, USA Today, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Chicago Tribune, Reuters, Dow Jones News Service, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Worth, and others.

We have made extensive placements in vertical trade media, including the retail/consumer goods, financial services, technology, workplace, security, Internet, legal, media & advertising, healthcare, professional services, pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. We also work closely with reporters at regional business publications throughout the U.S.

Shev Rush

Founder & CEO

Shev Rush began his communications career in high school when his interviews with Willem Dafoe, Oliver Stone and Cameron Crowe for his school newspaper were republished by South Carolina’s largest newspaper, The State. Moving to San Francisco in the early ’90s, Shev’s career spanned financial-services marketing and then as a marketing communications executive at technology companies during the original dot-com boom.

Jay Roberts

Senior Consultant

Jay has more than 25 years of public relations and marketing experience in the areas of consumer, technology, business-to-business, and event production and publicity. With a focus on media relations, story development and strategic writing, he is passionate about working with the media and finding ways to get his clients in the press. Jay routinely makes placements across a wide range of high-level online, print and broadcast media outlets and important vertical trades.

Kristin Cobb

Director of Business Development

Kristin Cobb is a results-oriented executive director and marketing manager with over 20 years of extensive marketing and public relations experience. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, she has a background in television and radio as well as community engagement in the arts sector. Named as one of the Top 50 Power Players in Columbia, SC, she joins SRPR with enthusiasm and passion for making things happen.

Kate Macko

Account Executive

Kate Macko has centered communications and outreach throughout her career. For over 20 years, her talent for outreach, technical and translational writing, and event execution has served businesses and organizations spanning architecture and design firms, colleges, and biomedical research institutions.

Bipanchy Kalita

Associate

Bipanchy Kalita is a proficient digital marketing specialist with a comprehensive background in public relations and community engagement.