Mike McDougall, FAAO, APR, Fellow PRSA
President
For more than three decades, Mike has been at the forefront of the public relations profession, with his work earning 26 Public Relations Society of America Anvils and Awards of Excellence—the Oscars® of the communications industry.
Before founding McDougall Communications in 2011, Mike served as global vice president of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs for Bausch & Lomb, and as director of Worldwide Public Relations and Digital Market Development for Eastman Kodak Company’s $9 billion consumer division. Prior, he held PR and marketing communications agency roles in Rochester, New York City, and Boston.
Mike’s team building and development efforts have been honored by the likes of PRWeek (In-House PR Team of the Year finalist and Boutique Agency of the Year winner) and The Holmes Report (Best Places to Work in PR). He's a frequent public relations industry speaker with global industry bodies, a guest university lecturer, and an occasional columnist for public relations and marketing publications.
He was elected to the prestigious Arthur W. Page Society in 2010, was named to the Public Relations Society of America College of Fellows in 2015, and was designated as a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry in 2022. Mike is an alumnus of Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lives in Honeoye Falls, N.Y.
