As owner of Mullender Associates, LLC, prior to joining ACE full-time, Ms. Mullender recently focused on building corporate and/or executive image campaigns in the telecommunications, technology, entertainment and educational industries. Additionally, she has coordinated all the marketing and public relations efforts for the opening of the new campus of the University of Connecticut at Stamford, for a start-up company, Lexiphone Technology Corporation, and assisted with the launch of a new business venture for IBM.

Prior to founding Mullender Associates, LLC, Ms. Mullender was the Vice President of External Affairs for Browning-Ferris Industry’s (BFI) Northeastern Region, located in Boston, Massachusetts, serving the New England and New York Area. She also served as the Assistant Director of Public and Government Affairs for the Massachusetts Port Authority.

As a Senior Vice President at the New York-based public relations firm of Howard J. Rubenstein, Ms. Mullender represented some of the firm’s most highly visible clients. Some of these include Patricia Kluge, William Koch, Rupert Murdoch, Frances Lear, The Miami Project, The Great Legends of Sports, Thermo Electron Corporation, The Virginia Festival of American Film, The School of American Ballet, The Kirov Ballet in the United States, the Essence Awards and Essence Magazine among others.

In 1994-1995, Ms. Mullender handled all the marketing and publicity for the historic and only all-women’s team to ever compete for the America’s Cup in San Diego, California. While there, she managed sponsorships totaling $14 million and secured another $6 million in private donations. Since then her clients remain a diverse group including the Campaign to Elect Dan Malloy Mayor, the City of Stamford Office of Economic Development, the University of Connecticut at Stamford, Lexiphone Technology, Gotham Entertainment Group, MariTel Communications, the Richman Group of Companies, Cap Gemini Ernst and Young – CEO, The CIO Group, and IBM.

Ms. Mullender has represented a variety of individuals in the entertainment business through her affiliations with board memberships and organizations. She has promoted Sidney Poitier, Robert Mitchum, Roger Ebert, William Styron, Robert Duvall, Christopher Reeves and Alec and William Baldwin, among others, as the on-site publicist at events.

Ms. Mullender is a member of the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Steering Committee for the Friends of the Downtown Special Services District in Stamford, and the New York-based Creative Coalition, a group of arts and entertainment personalities dealing with a diverse group of public issues.