David Politis is an award-winning public relations, investor relations and marketing communications professional, with more than 50 industry awards to his credit during his 25-plus years as a communications consultant.

Since moving to Utah in the fall of 1987, David has been actively involved in helping organizations in the state, throughout the U.S. and overseas to succeed through aggressive and targeted PR, IR and marcom programs. These efforts have helped David’s clients generate increased visibility in the marketplace, grow sales and revenues, and raise stock market valuations on Wall Street.

David presently heads Politis Communications, an agency that specializes in working with organizations in the high-tech and life sciences industries (while also serving selected non-technical firms. Formed in 1990, Politis Communications was selected in 1999 by the MountainWest Venture Group, now the MountainWest Capital Network, as a member of the Utah100 (one of the 100 fastest growing firms in Utah).

In addition to running Politis Communications, David is an active supporter of the technology and business community in Utah. For example, from 1988 to 1996 he served as a volunteer officer and board member of the MWVG, including a one-year term as president of this non-profit organization. David also filled a two-year stint as a board member of the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum in the late 1990s, and he has also been a long-time supporter and an active participant in the Utah Technology Council (formerly the Utah Information Technology Association). Politis Communications has also provided PR services to the UVEF, MWVG and UITA on a pro bono basis.

David has also taken an active role in community service, including serving

• for several years as an advisor to Special Olympics Utah,
• as a former board member for the Utah Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association,
• as an advisory board member to the Westminster College in Salt Lake City,
• as a board member to NAMI Utah (the Utah chapter of the National Association for the Mentally Ill), and
• as a Unit Committee Chairman and Varsity Scout Leader for the Boy Scouts of America (Great Salt Lake Council).

Additionally, he has served as a volunteer coach for a variety of championship youth teams in sports ranging from volleyball to basketball to football.

One of the more interesting aspects of David’s career is his ongoing effort to observe, chronicle and support the successful efforts of Utah’s high-tech businesses and technologists to make technology and science an everyday part of life in modern society. To do this, he began writing “Utah Tech Watch” a self-syndicated column that began at The Daily Herald and quickly expanded from semi-weekly to weekly status. In less than a year, ”Utah Tech Watch” was carried by two other Utah papers: The Enterprise (the Salt Lake-based business weekly) and the Deseret News. Over time, David added email distribution of the column to interested parties.

At its height during the 10-year-span from mid-1994 to August 2004, “Utah Tech Watch” had a weekly circulation of roughly 140,000 readers and reached an estimated audience of more than 250,000. His ability to make technical matters easily understood by the general public has also made him a favorite among local journalists, many of whom often turn to David for on-the-record comments on topics ranging from computer viruses to the technology heavy Nasdaq Stock Market.

However, after penning more than 500 columns of 500- to 800-words apiece on technology-centric topics ranging from new gadgets to corporate buyouts and from medical advancements to legislative issues, David decided to take a break from the column.  After a three-year hiatus from 2004 through 2007, “Utah Tech Watch” was reborn on the Web as a blog at UtahTechWatch.com, where David currently writes occasional columns, articles and Twitter posts about Utah’s technology industry and the tech world at large.

In addition to his 18-plus years as the head of Politis Communications, David is also the CEO of SOAR Communications, a separate agency he formed in August 2004 to serve the marketing communications needs of companies in the Sports, Outdoor, Athletics and Recreation industries.

Previously, he successfully started and ran Salt Lake-based DSW Public Relations from 1987 through 1990. He also built the successful PR operations of TFB/Davis in Seattle between mid-1985 and 1987, after starting his career in Palo Alto, California with Tycer-Fultz-Bellack in 1984.

David taught an introductory course in public relations as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University for five semesters in the mid-1990s, and he is a regular guest lecturer and presenter at Utah universities and business functions/conferences.

David received his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from BYU, and he lives with his wife, Allisha, and their children in Sandy, Utah.