Dean Draznin
With 30 years of experience in Marcom, Dean Draznin launched his own firm in 1998 with a specialization in Israeli high tech. In subsequent years Dean Draznin Communications expanded into other categories including PR for software, e-marketing, direct mail, medical, natural health care, personal development and authors.
Draznin was Director of Business Development for the strategic mergers and acquisitions firm, Taylor International and headed their PR department in Washington, DC. He was a founder and VP of marketing for the progressive design/build firm, MGC, N.A., and helped establish sister offices in Europe and Asia.
As a manager of marketing and media relations for the worldwide Transcendental Meditation program, Draznin popularized TM and its subsidiary programs on four continents in the 1970s and 80s, and helped launch the public career of endocrinologist Deepak Chopra.
Dean Draznin comes from a family of PR/marketing pros. His father, Jules N. Draznin had his own Chicago-based PR consulting firm and taught journalism at the college level in Los Angeles. His brother is a marketing/branding consultant in NYC.