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Ellen Toplin

Director-at-Large

 

Ellen Toplin is the founder and president of Toplin & Associates, Inc., a marketing, public relations and advertising firm specializing in building solid marketing strategies for corporate and professional clients. Founded in 1982, Toplin & Associates, Inc. has been consistently ranked among Philadelphia’s top public relations agencies by O’Dwyers, PR Week, The Council of Public Relations Firms and the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Recognized for her leadership in the public relations field, Ellen Toplin received both the DeAnn White Award for Community Service from the Public Relations Society of America’s Philadelphia Chapter and the Hale’s Legacy award for outstanding achievement in the field of public relations from the Philadelphia Chapter of Women in Communications. Toplin

was elected by the Philadelphia area public relations community to serve as a director-at-large of the Philadelphia Public Relations Society in 2004.


Toplin also serves on the board of the prestigious Forum of Executive Women, a group of 300 women leaders in the Philadelphia region and chairs the Forum’s visibility committee. She is a board member of the American Red Cross Blood Services-Penn Jersey Region, sits on both the executive and nominating committees of the board, and chairs the Red Cross’ marketing committee. Toplin has been listed in Who’s Who Registry of Rising Young Americans in Society and Business; Who’s Who Registry of Global Business Leaders; Who’s Who Registry of Executives and Professionals; and Who’s Who Registry of American Women.


Prior to founding her own agency 22 years ago, Toplin was a national account executive for IntraCorp, a division of CIGNA that provided rehabilitation and healthcare cost-containment programs to insurance companies and major self-insured corporations. While at CIGNA, Toplin served as both a line and staff manager, and was responsible for directing the sales force and marketing activities of six district offices.


Toplin, who began her career as a social worker in the Department of Rehabilitation at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, holds a bachelor’s degree (cum laude) from Temple University, and a master’s degree from Antioch College.


 


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