OUR PEOPLE

Bob Hope, President
Bob Hope is the president of Hope-Beckham, Inc. He has been in the public relations business with senior
executive positions for 30 years. Bob was named Public Relations Director of the Atlanta Braves at age 24
and rose to Vice President of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks and Turner Broadcasting at age 30. He then
joined The Coca-Cola Company and became a partner in the Atlanta public relations firm of Cohn & Wolfe.
As Cohn & Wolfe grew, it was purchased by Burson-Marsteller, the world’s largest public relations firm.

Bob was transferred to New York to become executive vice president of Burson. He was president of a division
of Whittle Communications before forming Hope-Beckham in 1994 with longtime friend Paul Beckham. Bob is
active in the Atlanta community and author of two books, We Could Have Finished Last Without You and Greater
Late then Never.

Paul Beckham, Chairman
Paul Beckham is the chairman of Hope-Beckham. He was a senior officer of Turner Broadcasting for
23 years, and rose up through the financial side of the company. Eventually, Paul became CFO and
then president of the cable sales division prior to forming Hope-Beckham in 1994. His accomplishments
include the organization and startup of CNN, developing the Goodwill Games and handling a variety of
major acquisitions and other business deals for Turner. Paul serves on the boards of several corporations
and is highly active in the area of higher education. He is chairman of the board of trustees of Young Harris
College and also serves on the trustee board for Georgia State University.

Senior Management

Suzanne Brown, Senior Marketing Consultant
Suzanne Brown is senior marketing consultant for Hope-Beckham. She is a 30year veteran in marketing
and public relations for the food, beverage, financial, electric utility and real estate industries. Her project
clients have included Fortune magazine’s Top 50 U.S. based national and international companies. She is
an internationally recognized speaker and published writer for the coffee and tea industries and has been
a correspondent to the Tea & Coffee Trade Journal for 18 years. At HBI, Suzanne is responsible for national
and international business development. She is Immediate Past President of the Atlanta Chapter, Les Dames
d’ Escoffier, an international organization of women in the culinary arts, and is active in the Specialty Coffee
Association of America and Public Relations Society of America.

Holly Clifford, Vice President
Holly Clifford is a vice president for Hope-Beckham. Holly joined Hope-Beckham in 1999 and is a ten-year
veteran in advertising and public relations. The native of Tampa was a varsity volleyball star at North
Carolina State University. Prior to joining Hope-Beckham, she ran the Sports Foundation, a contract agency
of the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Convention and Visitors Bureau. Through the Sports Foundation she organized
the NCAA Final Four, as well as numerous other national and international sports events. At Hope-Beckham,
she has developed strategy for such diverse accounts as Andersen, The Coca-Cola Company, Network
Communications Inc., MVP.com, priceline.com, Enterpulse, the Atlanta Sports Council and the Technology
Association of Georgia. She is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America.

Michael King, Vice President
Michael King is a vice president at Hope-Beckham. Michael began his work with the agency in 1995 handling
logistics and promotions on the road with the Colorado Silver Bullets baseball team. His event staff has done
projects as diverse as the National Peanut Board touring exhibit , a 30-city mall tour, spring break events for
several companies, cooking and sampling fried turkeys at college football games. Michael has also set up press
conferences in New York and other top markets. If it can be done, Michael will figure out how to do it. He is a native
of Long Island, New York and graduate of Towson University in Maryland. In his spare time, he is an actor with
Whole World Theater in Atlanta.

Kevin Sullivan, Vice President
Kevin Sullivan is a vice president at Hope-Beckham and has more than 20 years experience in media, marketing
and public relations. For six years he was the marketing director for three different technology companies. An
award-winning television journalist, Kevin spent 15 years working intelevision news. He knows public relations from
the news editor side, the corporate side and now from the agency side. Kevin graduated from the University of Missouri
and the Poynter Institute. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Business Marketing
Association, the Technology Association of Georgia and the Truckload Carriers Association.