BrandingPays™ to Address Growing Executive Market for Personal Branding with New Team

A competitive job market and the rising influence of social media has made personal branding a top priority for many executives. BrandingPays LLC, a Silicon Valley corporate and personal branding company, has added a new team to address this growing need for better executive branding.

PALO ALTO, California–March 24, 2011– BrandingPays LLC, a Silicon Valley corporate and personal branding company, has added five highly experienced consultants to its team to address the growing need for personal branding for executives.

“The competitive job market and the rising influence of social media has made personal branding a top priority for many executives,” said BrandingPays LLC Founder and CEO Karen Kang, a recognized Silicon Valley brand strategist.

“Most executives know how important achieving a recognized and powerful brand is, yet few take a strategic approach to personal branding,” she added. “Starting with social media without a brand strategy is like building a house without a plan.”

Her consulting team uses the BrandingPays™ System, a unique step-by-step methodology and tools for personal branding whose training has been proven at leading business schools and Fortune 500 companies.

Ellen Taverner, Gabi Schindler, Steven Kang, Meta Mehling and Carol Firenze Anglin comprise the new BrandingPays Certified Consultants team. Many of the BrandingPays consultants and coaches have served as executives or consultants in marketing, communications or business management in global companies both large and small. A partial list includes Apple, AT&T, Proctor & Gamble, Miller Brewery, Nasdaq, Cisco, Holland America, IBM, Intel, British Telecom, KPMG, Hong Kong Tourism Board, CapGemini, Symantec, and Regis McKenna Inc.

“If there ever has been one brand message that delivers exactly what it promises (and much more than that), it’s Karen Kang’s BrandingPays,” said iCharts CEO Seymour Duncker, whose web services company has engaged with BrandingPays for corporate and personal branding since 2008.

About BrandingPays LLC

BrandingPays LLC is a corporate and personal branding company that helps companies, departments and professionals to stand apart from the crowd. In 1994, Silicon Valley brand strategist Karen Kang founded Karen Kang Consulting (now BrandingPays LLC), which has served high technology, health care, travel and other clients from the Fortune 500 to startups in the US, Asia and Europe. A former Regis McKenna Inc. partner, she is a sought-after speaker and has conducted corporate and personal branding seminars at top business schools such as London Business School, Stanford University, Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and Haas (UC Berkeley), and many professional organizations.

BrandingPays is a trademark of BrandingPays LLC.

BrandingPays™ team: (back row l-r) Gabi Schindler, Steven Kang and Meta Mehling (front row l-r) Ellen Taverner, Karen Kang and Carol Firenze Anglin