“In developing Powered for Patients, Eric Cote has demonstrated his out-of-the box strategic thinking and skill in coalition building. This project benefitted from outside creative thinking to bring together disparate interests for a common purpose. The impressive result of his work is a platform that can help tackle the serious challenge of protecting backup power and restoring utility power for critical healthcare facilities impacted by disaster. This is an area of great concern to public health officials and we now have an excellent vehicle in Powered for Patients to address this challenge.”
Gerrit T. Bakker
Senior Director, Public Health Preparedness
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
“Eric Cote and his team has been very helpful in providing high level strategic counsel to the Lightning Protection Institute. They’ve brought great ideas to the table that helped us get the most from our media events. We’ve also appreciated their national network of PR associates which we were able to tap recently for a major event in Texas.”
Kim Loehr
Communications Director
Lightning Protection Institute
“As a former CEO of multi-million dollar companies, I’ve worked with a lot of agencies. You have shown a great deal of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking in positioning our company.”
Gary Schuler
CEO
Senesco Marine
“Without a doubt, Eric Cote and his team helped us save Sweet Briar College. We are grateful for Eric’s media savvy and calm demeanor that provided a steady hand from the very first days of our fight right through our incredible victory. Eric and his team helped shape and implement the media strategy that provided a potent and steady media barrage. This really helped tip the scales in our successful fight to save Sweet Briar College.”
Tracy Stuart
Founder and Board Member
Saving Sweet Briar, Inc.
“Eric Cote’s role in generating extensive media coverage of our fight to save Sweet Briar College was tremendously helpful to our ongoing legal strategy. He understood the need to carefully calibrate media coverage to support our litigation strategy and he did so masterfully.”
Ashley L. Taylor, Jr.
Attorney for Saving Sweet Briar and co-chair of the Education Team
Troutman Sanders
“We were very happy with the campaign. It was flawless and we wouldn’t have changed anything about it.”
David Marventano
Senior Vice President, Government Relations
Fluor Corporation
(Mr. Marventano is describing the sophisticated community, government and media relations
campaign to support Fluor’s pursuit of a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Eric Cote and his colleagues were key leaders of the campaign along with colleagues from other firms. )
“The agency worked a small miracle for our group of Rhode Island dairy farmers and I have no doubt the agency can do the same for others who make their living by selling agricultural products of any type.”
Jim Hines
Executive Director
RI Dairy Farms Cooperative
“As a $300 million closeout specialist we understood the complexities of the retail world but when we ran into political difficulties with our expansion plans, we knew we needed professional help. Eric Cote helped us focus our message and put the proper team together to get the job done.”
Marc Perlman
CEO & Co-Founder
Ocean State Job Lot
“Eric Cote and his team have been partners from the very beginning, helping to build Rx Response from the ground up. Their initial work in opening doors with key state emergency management leaders helped us establish credibility and grow into a highly respected organization.”
Erin Mullen, RPh, PhD, CEM
Executive Director
Rx Response
“We chose Eric Cote and his team to advise us on strategic communications issues and redesign our website because of their wealth of experience in the disaster preparedness arena. Their compassionate approach to VOICES work and valuable counsel has helped our efforts to assist families and communities in recovering from other tragedies. We have also incorporated their strategic branding recommendations into our new website and are delighted with the fresh look and enhanced functionality of the site.”
Mary Fetchet
Founding Director
Voices of September 11th
“Having worked in this industry for years, I know how hard it can be for a start-up company to break into the big leagues, to be accepted as a key player. You made that happen for us.”
Bob Jarvis
President
Senesco Marine