Matthew Bird

About

Matthew Bird an accredited expert in corporate and brand strategy, media relations, crisis, communications, technology, thought-leadership, international business and impact marketing.

Matthew Bird is currently the CEO of 1-800-PublicRelations “1800pr” a full-service communications marketing firm with an emphasis on performance-driven event based PR and On-Demand communications programs.

Over Matthew Bird’s 18-year career he has led the transaction negotiations, corporate and brand communication programs for more than 1,000 companies and global brands including; 18 stock exchanges, 1 presidential election, over 20 foreign heads-of-state, the United Nations, NASDAQ, Microsoft, AFLAC, SAP, NYSE, PR Newswire, Orbitz, Yahoo, Disney, Starwood, Ford and more.

In 2015 Matthew Bird was ranked 3rd in the world - “Top 10 Most Influential Media and Communication Executives of 2015” by United Nations & PVBLIC

In September 2016 Matthew Bird was appointed Acting-Director of Public Relations for United Nations SDG Media Zone during the 71st U.N. General Assembly.

Matthew Bird rang the NASDAQ Closing Bell in 2009 to honor a global partnership with NASDAQ for his accomplishments in the financial and corporate communications industry.

Prior to “1800pr”, Matthew Bird was CEO of MUNCmedia, a corporate communications network that forged multi-national partnerships with NASDAQ OMX and multiple newswires developing their featured news distribution and analytics systems powering content on over 1,400 news publications, TV & Radio networks reaching over 110 million users. The content distribution, analytical reporting, and investor targeting technology created by Matthew Bird has been widely adopted by all wire services and communication networks, which nearly every pubic company worldwide uses daily today.

Matthew Bird contributes to Huffington Post, Equities.com, has been featured on CNBC, CBS, Clear Channel, iHeart, cSpan, Forbes and has lectured at MIT Sloan Business School.