Senior Advisor for Media, Marketing and Community Engagement
Deborah Franco serves as a Senior Advisor for Media, Marketing and Community Engagement for The SI3 Group. She is an award-winning creative innovator of multi-media with a unique ability to successfully devise and executive integrated communication strategies. In her previous work she serviced global businesses such as Merck, Ameritech, Mazda, and Schering-Plough.
Deborah provides strategic counsel and develops creative content, branding and diversity programs for clients that have included the United States Navy, the Los Angeles Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, DreamWorks Television, Disney/Chase Productions, and Far East National Bank.
As Senior Vice President for Hill and Knowlton, she created and expanded the company’s first diversity marketing division. Under her leadership, it successfully grew to seven cities across the country and an office in Mexico City in two years.
Deborah then became a senior strategic consultant and facilitated the implementation of a community outreach program that secured a $1 million federal grant for a medical awareness pilot program in East Los Angeles for underserved communities. The pilot’s success led to duplication in 25 communities across the country.
Deborah has a Bachelor of Arts in communication and english from Mid-American University and has studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. She is fluent in Spanish and resides in the greater Los Angeles area.