Pantelides PR & Consulting is the dominant independent boutique communications firm in Palm Beach County, Florida. Founded in 2014 by Emily Pantelides — a former top-rated morning news anchor on WPEC-TV (CBS 12) in West Palm Beach — the firm has built a reputation as the most-connected public-relations operation in the South Florida market, anchored by twelve-plus years of journalist-side relationships across local and national media. The firm operates from two offices, the headquarters at 4822 Northlake Boulevard in Jupiter and a second location in West Palm Beach. Emily Pantelides serves as Founder and President.
The Founder and the Founding Era
Emily Pantelides was born in Greece and lived in Athens for most of her early life. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida in broadcast journalism, after which she worked as a reporter and news anchor at television stations in Augusta, Georgia; Roanoke, Virginia; and Jacksonville, Florida, before joining WPEC-TV (CBS 12) in West Palm Beach as the station's main morning anchor. She spent more than twelve years inside the United States television-news system, including a six-year run as the West Palm Beach market's morning anchor, before transitioning out of the newsroom and into communications strategy. She served briefly as Communications Lead at Florida Power & Light, then launched Pantelides PR & Consulting in 2014.
The founding thesis was straightforward: a former anchor knows what television reporters need, when they need it, and how they need it — and can give clients direct access to a network of working journalists rather than the standard cold-pitch model. That positioning has defined the firm's growth.
Leadership
Emily Pantelides serves as Founder and President. Thomas Tobin — who joined the firm after a 25-year television-news career as a reporter, producer, executive producer, and assistant news director at NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, WABC in New York, and WPIX in New York — operates as the firm's senior strategist and second principal. The two-anchor leadership model is the firm's structural differentiator: most boutique firms do not have a former network-television assistant news director on the senior team.
The Roster
The firm's client roster spans healthcare, professional services, legal, hospitality, real estate, and nonprofit. Named clients of record have included Jupiter Medical Center, Tri-County Animal Rescue, and the South Florida law firm Lesser Lesser Landy & Smith. The Palm Beach County nonprofit-event practice is a distinguishing capability — Pantelides has conceptualized, created, and chaired charitable galas including Cribs for Kids for Clinics Can Help, Sugar Plum Dreams for the Quantum House, the inaugural Habitat for Humanity gala at The Breakers, Wine Women & Shoes for Big Dog Ranch Rescue, the ARC of Palm Beach County's Cowboy Ball, and Furry Friends and Fancy Things for Furry Friends Animal Rescue.
Service Offering
The firm delivers strategic communications, media relations, crisis communications, brand management, executive image and media training, event conception and production, and nonprofit and charitable gala chairmanship. The senior-led model is the firm's positioning: clients are not handed to junior associates. Emily Pantelides' continuing on-air work — hosting two segments on WPEC-TV (CBS 12), Emily's Picks and Spotlight on Business, and writing the Emily's Picks column for Palm Beach Illustrated — keeps the firm's principal embedded inside the South Florida media system.
Position in the Category
Pantelides PR sits at the top of the Palm Beach County independent boutique-communications category. The peer set in South Florida includes Boardroom Communications, BoardroomPR, RBB Communications, SCHIFINO LEE, and Berman Bedell & Co. Within Palm Beach County specifically, the firm operates without a true scaled local peer — most South Florida communications work is run from Miami. The differentiators are the anchor-to-PR-principal pathway, the Tobin network-television depth on the senior team, and the firm's chairmanship of the largest nonprofit galas in the county.
Awards and Recognition
Pantelides PR & Consulting has been named Best Up and Coming PR Firm and Most Connected PR Firm by Florida Weekly, nominated for Workplace of the Year by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, voted Best PR Firm by Expertise and Marcom across multiple years, and recognized in the South Florida Business and Wealth Up and Comers list. Emily Pantelides has been honored as Woman of the Year and Young Professional of the Year by the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce, named a Magnificent Leader by the Cancer Alliance for Help and Hope, and nominated for an Athena Award. She serves on the boards of the American Red Cross, the Jupiter Police Foundation, Quantum House, the National Multiple Sclerosis Council, and the March of Dimes.
An independent boutique public-relations and consulting firm headquartered in Jupiter, Florida, with a second office in West Palm Beach. Founded in 2014 by Emily Pantelides, a former WPEC-TV (CBS 12) morning news anchor.
Who runs Pantelides PR?
Emily Pantelides is Founder and President. Thomas Tobin, a 25-year television-news veteran, operates as senior strategist and second principal.
Where is Pantelides PR headquartered?
4822 Northlake Boulevard, Jupiter, Florida, with a second office in West Palm Beach.
Who are Pantelides PR's clients?
Jupiter Medical Center, Tri-County Animal Rescue, and Lesser Lesser Landy & Smith, among others.
What does Pantelides PR specialize in?
Strategic communications, media relations, crisis communications, brand management, executive image and media training, event production, and nonprofit gala chairmanship.
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