Our Team
John O’Malley
John O’Malley is principal and founder of O’Malley International Associates. Since 1993, his agency has provided media and image solutions to businesses, universities, trade associations, government agencies, nonprofit groups, and individuals. His agency offers a range of services: public relations, marketing communications, public affairs, copywriting, grant writing, editing, copywriting, and graphic design (print and web-based).
John regularly conducts training sessions and workshops on grant writing, scientific writing, and communications strategies at universities and community sites around the nation and overseas. His most recent presentations were at North Carolina State University College of Design; Alaska Pacific University; University of Hawaii; San Jose State University; Illinois Institute of Technology; University of British Columbia; King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; University of Utah; University of Louisiana (Lafayette); Boston University, Harvard Medical Center; Carnegie Mellon University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Simon Fraser University; University of Southern California; Virginia Commonwealth University; University College in London; and, the University of Ottawa.
Prior to forming his practice, John worked as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily Journal Co., publisher of the nation’s largest daily law newspaper, and as editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Business Journal, the nation’s largest weekly business newspaper. He worked as a radio announcer and producer for top-rated local stations in the Northwest (KGW-AM; KINK-FM, KBOO-FM). Previous to these positions, John enlisted in the U.S. Navy for six years and served as a military journalist.
John has served as an instructor and program planning and training development adviser at the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he spearheaded the district’s efforts to provide workforce training/education programs to high-profile organizations, such as General Motors, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Walt Disney. In addition, his skills and knowledge performed helped develop successful education and training programs for the district’s adult education division. He has also worked on behalf of corporate-sponsored programs operated by American Express, Citigroup, Avery Dennison and other corporations.
John holds a Masters of Science degree from Mount St. Mary’s College and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marquette University. He is active in civic and charitable organizations, most notably through membership on the boards of directors of the International Institute of Los Angeles and the Theater of Hope. He serves on the President’s Council for the Chinese Garden at The Huntington, and he is former president of the Marquette University Alumni Club of Southern California.
Michael Malone
Michael Malone brings an extensive business management and marketing background to O’Malley International Associates. A seasoned professional with a successful track record in both corporate and non-profit sectors, Mike specializes in strategic planning, marketing, leadership development and training, fundraising assistance, and management.
For 16 years, he was a partner at Becker Capital Management, a Portland, Oregon-based investment advisory firm that manages nearly $3 billion in assets. He was responsible for client services and national marketing while at Becker Capital. His clients have ranged from small entrepreneurial operations and high net worth individuals to Global 500 companies, government agencies, foundations, and endowments. Examples include Honda America, Anheuser Busch, United Airlines Pilots Association, Nike, Lewis & Clark College, New York Times and Texas Tech University. Mike has a B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Portland. As a professor of business administration, he has taught at the University of Portland and Portland Community College; he was recognized for his teaching excellence by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Mike is also active in a number of civic and charitable organizations.
Scott Carmichael
Scott Carmichael plays a key role in bringing problem solving, collaboration and technology to clients who are dealing with new media and Internet-based challenges. He provides strategic advice that adds value to a client’s performance in digital environments. His expertise and analysis gives clients an opportunity to prepare and develop Internet-driven strategies that relate to their objectives. Over the last 15 years, he has successfully directed core business transformations at companies such as The New York Times, AOL, Bertelsmann and Cablevision, and he has profitably managed start-ups such as JibJab and GetBack Media. Today, Scott is an owner of a number of early stage start-ups including DigSound, which is focused on streamlining the digital music supply chain. He has a B.A. from Columbia University.
Trisha Chambers
Trisha Chambers provides our clients with a wide array of skills based on her experience in professional services firms in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. She brings a broad base of marketing experience for public television (PBS) stations in Cleveland and Chicago. As a talented and versatile writer, she is adept at business communications (press releases, speech writing, copywriting, grant proposals, promotional/marketing materials) and creative writing (fiction/non-fiction/script analysis, editing, and proofreading).
Trisha holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Notre Dame, a Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University, and a certificate from the University of California, Los Angeles Professional Program in Screenwriting. She is currently pursuing a Master’s of Professional Writing (MPW) degree at the University of Southern California. Her emphasis is fiction and screenwriting. In addition to her studies, she is also a Writing Consultant at the USC Writing Center. When she’s not writing, you may see her working as an extra on shows like “Lie to Me,” “House,” “Numbers,” and “CSI.”
Beth Tomasovich
Beth Tomasovich joined O’Malley International Associates in 2006, bringing solid organizational skills and know-how in sales and management training, advertising and public service.
Beth was sales and promotions director for Arrowhead, Inc. where she traveled nationally training sales staff, directing highly successful sales events at major retailers and supervising print media, radio and TV advertising. Prior to that, Beth was an Account Manager with Glenn, Bozell and Jacobs Advertising Agency in Dallas, Texas. She prepared and presented proposals for new business, including detailed market analysis, budgeting and statistical reports.
Beth served on the San Marino School District Executive Boards for 12 years, and organized major fundraisers for their award winning schools. She graduated with honors from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and received a minor in Business Administration.
Jill Timmons
Jill Timmons provides artist development services for O’Malley International Associates. She is currently professor of music and artist-in-residence at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon and is recognized by international audiences and educators as a leading consultant in music entrepreneurship. Through Artsmentor, LLC, she has helped countless music organizations and individual artists meet the challenge of today’s market place. In the United States, Timmons has performed as a pianist under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts, United States Information Agency, and has been heard on National Public Radio. Her recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Chicago Dame Myra Hess Series, and the National Gallery of Art received public acclaim.
Internationally, Jill has toured throughout Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain and Chile. Dedicated to American composers, her discography includes recordings on the Centaur, Capstone and Laurel labels. Ken Burns chose music from her Amy Beach recording with Laura Klugherz for his PBS documentary The War. She frequently contributes articles and opinion pieces about professional development for musicians to Clavier Magazine, American Music Teacher and the Oregon Jewish Review.
Dana Leonard
Dana provides a fresh, innovative outlook to our projects as an intern for O’Malley International Associates. After graduating from Mater Dei High School, she currently attends Marquette University pursuing a B.A. in Broadcast Electronic Communications. She currently holds the position at Marquette Radio as Assistant News Director.
Her passion for helping others has veered her to working with many non-profits extensively such as Invisible Children and TOMS Shoes. She also has a comprehensive background with working with adults and children with mental and physical disabilities through her work with Camp ReCreation for the past two years.
Growing up in Orange County, Dana had a passion for the arts and danced competitively, sung with her high school chambers choir, and acted in television and film. You might have seen her on Zoey 101, Monk, or Brothers and Sisters.
Following her graduation in 2013, she plans to fuse her eagerness for helping others along with her love of music to make documentaries about up and coming musical artists. She wishes to develop a plan, which would allow those documentaries to benefit non-profit organizations and third world countries.
Susan Marriott
Susan Marriott is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Departments of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. She manages an active research lab studying molecular mechanisms that regulate cellular proliferation and transformation in response to viral infection. Dr. Marriott has authored successful research proposals funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Cancer Society. She has published over 50 original works in major medical journals. She has spoken at numerous national and international research conferences in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Great Britain, France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Jamaica and Canada.
In 2001, Dr. Marriott established BioScience Writers, a company that specializes in revising, editing and writing scientific and clinical research documents. As the CEO of BioScience Writers, Dr. Marriott also developed a scientific writing workshop designed for science professionals.
Dr. Marriott holds a Ph.D. degree in microbiology from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Prior to joining Baylor College of Medicine in 1991, she worked for four years as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
Ashley Moreno
Ashley joined O’Malley Associates International in 2009, and provides research support, tailored press releases, custom media contact proposals and other written work.
Ashley, a life time resident of the San Gabriel Valley, is pursuing a B.S in Marketing, Public Relations, and Business from California State University Northridge with a specific emphasis in Entertainment P.R.
Ashley is an avid volunteer and supporter of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses. She was the 2005 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Queen.
Larissa Nelson
Larissa Nelson has an extensive background in the non-profit, political and public relations industries. Her career has been focused on non-profit start-up, fund development, program development, and volunteer recruitment and training. Larissa is also co-founder of The Center for Student Philanthropic Advancement, a non-profit organization that focuses on combining educated student volunteers with community programs.
Larissa has had success in obtaining thousands of dollars in funding for organizations. She also works closely with the media outlets of Southern California to generate radio/TV interviews, newspaper articles, and other publicity for organizations and individuals.
She has served as a political organizer for the Los Angeles city elections, bringing thousands of dollars and volunteers into campaigns. Mrs. Nelson has also served as a Lobbying Coordinator and volunteer recruiter where she organized and trained members to lobby and campaign effectively. She has been responsible for coordinating and training hundreds of volunteers for political campaigns for a range of campaign duties. Larissa graduated cum laude from Pepperdine University with a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communications and a concentration in Political Science.
Mark Vidal
Mark supports our clients in multiple areas of communications. He is versatile in writing and editing, skilled in branding consistency techniques, and creative in print/web design. Prior to O’Malley International Associates, he provided Foothill Dermatology Medical Center with advertising and public relations campaigns and worked as a marketing/public relations intern at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.
Mark graduated with honors from the University of La Verne in 2010 with a B.A. in communications, emphasis in public affairs. No stranger to the Dean’s List, Mark was an editor of the school paper for two years, editor-in-chief of La Verne Magazine, and was named Writer of the Year in 2009 and again in 2010.
Richard Graziano
Richard Graziano, Ed.D. brings expertise and knowledge regarding education and training to O’Malley International Associates. He is the former chair and professor of tourism and hospitality at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). In his 12 years at Kingsborough, Richard was directly involved in curriculum development, assessment of learning outcomes and faculty development in the Kingsborough Center for Teaching and Learning.
Prior to coming to Kingsborough, Richard spent more than 20 years at the New York City Department of Education as a teacher, supervisor, and Director of the Academy of Travel & Tourism where, with the assistance of an industry advisory council, he managed programs at multiple school sites, developed internship placements and planned student and faculty conferences. The curricula he wrote in travel-related courses, career education and geography were adopted in academy programs nationwide under the auspices of the National Academy Foundation. As a consultant to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, he developed Portsport, a board game that engages students in learning about port operations, geography and economics.
Richard earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from St. John’s University, in education from Queens College and a doctorate in education from Hofstra University. In addition to his education experience, he has been a professional musician and a sports official.
