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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
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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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