(mentions CMTA) GatesmanMarmionDrake, Inc. Hires Beth Choike as Assistant

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GatesmanMarmionDrake, Inc. Hires Beth Choike as Assistant Account

Executive

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GatesmanMarmionDrake, one of Pittsburgh's fastest growing marketing

communication agencies, announced today the addition of Beth Choike

as Public Relations Assistant Account Executive.

" We are excited to have Beth join the team, " said Catanzano,

Public Relations Director of GatesmanMarmionDrake. " She is a creative

thinker and will be an asset to the company by adding a dynamic and

fresh communication perspective to help position our client's brands

at the top of the competitive market. "

Coming from a military family where her father serves as a Marine,

Choike has lived all over the world including places such as Okinawa,

Japan and Hawaii. A 2008 graduate of Slippery Rock University, Beth

earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and gained valuable

experience in the field as a PR intern at Brunner Inc.

While at SRU, she was a Dean's List student and a four-year varsity

letter winner and captain in women's swimming and water polo. She

also served as a committee chair on numerous projects for the SRU

chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America which has

a student-run PR firm named Rock PRoductions. Choike was honored with

the National Geena Takes Aim award for her work in gender

equality in women's athletics.

Choike's addition will strengthen GMD's staff and bring additional

expertise to such clients as Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association, Co-

exprise and Grant-.