Elaine Suess serves as an account manager for PR~Link Public Relations, LLC. She holds a Master's degree in Business from Lake Superior State University and a BA in English from St. Mary's College. She has also pursued continuing education courses in Marketing at the University of Michigan and Project Management at Villanova University. Her diverse skill set include strategic marketing planning and execution, website design and development, media planning, buying, public relations/communications integration, and collateral design and development.

Elaine has more than 20 years of diverse strategic and marketing experience in world class organizations, bringing insight and focus to her clients with innovative strategies. Elaine worked as both a strategic and operational marketing manager at Hillenbrand Industries, researching and introducing new products into the marketplace, as well as leading their e-commerce ERP transition team. Her work included interfacing with the customer, sales and the engineering team to identify customer needs and produce product that met those needs. In the process, Elaine helped choose customers for focus groups, worked with research to design focus group questions, observed focus groups and worked through the results of the focus group input. Additionally, Elaine worked with customers to review products created based on research.

Prior to relocating to the Cincinnati area, Elaine enjoyed a long tenure at General Motors where she served in a variety of assignments, including sales, product management, brand team merchandising management, and strategic website management. Elaine has special expertise in website communications and design as well as social media. Her industry experience includes healthcare, manufacturing, architectural, plastics, retail design and organizations in the not-for-profit sector.