Our Team
Binay Curtis has over 15 years of integrated marketing experience with a strong focus on public relations. She has represented the nation's top private and public companies including InterWest Partners, Visa U.S.A., Handspring, Legacy Bank N.A., and New Schools Venture Fund. With a specialty in media and speaker training, Binay has coached spokespeople from Yahoo!, San Francisco Magazine, Madison Capital, E-Loan and Hofstra University Law School. She has successfully assisted clients in getting quoted and covered in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Newsweek, The Today Show, CNN, USA Today, Fortune and Forbes.
The company, Galaxy Six Strategies, is named after the satellite channel that reaches the most amount of people. Like Galaxy Six, clients view G6 communication services as the ultimate way to reach its audience, integrating message workshops with media training in order to get clients the most successful media and speaker placements.
Prior to founding Galaxy Six Strategies, Binay worked with some of the world's most successful public relations firms including Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and Neihaus Ryan Wong. She has traveled with celebrities and spokespeople, overseeing thousands of media interviews through local market media tours, national and satellite media tours.
Binay has won numerous awards for her work including The Mercury Silver Award for Publicity, The Eleanor Award for Creativity and IPRA Golden Globe Award. She is also an accomplished speaker at events that include a keynote address at the InfoCom Group Media Relations Forum and PR101 for Wine Industry Professionals.
Binay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Laura Noss has 15 years of professional communications experience with strong emphasis in creative marketing and public relations. From strategy, to positioning, to media training and media relations, to events planning, to creative marketing, Laura has touched just about every aspect of professional communications.
Laura has managed large-scale public relations programs for clients such as Yahoo!, Turner Network Television, Planned Parenthood, and The EPA's Energy Star Program, and The Feldenkrais Guild of North America. Additionally, Laura has launched several products and programs including the emergency contraceptive drug "Plan B" and The Population Program for The Packard Foundation. Currently, she is launching Healthy Kids, a new health program for low-income children in San Francisco with the San Francisco Health Plan, and launching the Iris Fund, a national foundation that raises awareness and solutions on issues of teen depression and suicide.
Laura is a graduate of Syracuse University, holding a B.S. in Critical Theory and a double minor in Speech Communication and Public Relations from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. She is a certified non-profit consultant through CompassPoint's Institute for Nonprofit Consulting, and volunteers with children through the San Francisco City Schools Volunteer Program.
Wendy develops and directs multi-faceted marketing and corporate communications programs for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies as well as marketing, PR and community relations firms. Her experience spans diverse therapeutic areas, including: oncology, infectious disease, ophthalmology, migraine, epilepsy, rheumatoid arthritis/Crohn"s disease and sexual health.
Previously, Wendy served as senior manager of corporate communications at Genentech, Inc. At Genentech, Wendy created and managed product communications programs for several marketed and investigational biotechnology therapies. Wendy also previously held the position of senior account supervisor in the healthcare division of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide.
With a continued passion for health writing, Wendy has published articles in magazines for the American Medical Association and other not-for-profit organizations, and served as past editor of Time for Balance, a national health and work/life balance corporate employee newsletter. Wendy holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
From product and packaging design, to the development of entire brands and identities for Fortune 1000 companies, Suzanne has become known across the country for her memorable and smart approach to and execution of design.
She brings a literal lifetime of vision and experience to her design work. Suzanne received educational credentials from Art Center College of Design, with honors, and an additional 4-year degree in illustration.
Suzanne's designs can be seen on products at Crate & Barrel, Hold Everything, & the SFMOMA; she has designed products for entertainment giants including Universal Studios and Turner Entertainment; and she has created and designed two web sites that were featured in Forbes Magazine "Best of the Web".
Most recently, Suzanne designed a character called "Missy Girl", who represents all of the moods that are fun, free, and funky about being a 9-12 year old girl. The first product line was first launched in Target stores nationwide Spring 2002.
After a successful career working with some of the San Francisco Bay Area's leading marketing firms. John began his career working as a writer and content editor at Worldview, a pioneering Internet travel publishing company that merged into Travelocity.com. He went on to work for the San Francisco advertising agencies Goldberg Moser O'Neill and Anderson & Lembke, where he created print and online ads for companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, Quantum and Dreyer's Ice Cream. John has also consulted for SF Interactive, Niehaus Ryan Wong, B2PR and Modem Media.
Pinson has worked with several of Galaxy Six Strategies' clients creating articles, brochures and press releases.
Over the years, John has developed content and marketing materials for top software developers, e-businesses, telecommunications companies and professional services firms. Clients include Buzzsaw.com, the McKenna Group, Trinity Ventures, Purple Drop, Inabyte, Inc., Personify, Encirq, Swan Systems, Verb and Intellicom. He has contributed bylined and ghostwritten articles to many publications, including Computerworld ROI, telecommunications Magazine, ConstrucTECH, the Ivey Quarterly and CNET. John received a Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Writing for Electronic Media in 1994, and won Clio and One Show awards for advertising copywriting in 1999. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, John lives with his wife and three children in Marin County, California.
A website designer and programmer since 1995, Tim has developed websites and promotions for businesses such as Yahoo!, The McKenna Group, Foundation Capital, Trinity Ventures and InterWest Partners, and has helped many small-to-medium-size business develop an effective presence on the Web. Tim has also developed websites for many artists, including musicians Tuck & Patti and Zakir Hussain, and painters Stanley Goldstein and Mel Adamson, and TV actress Kathryn Foster ("The Education of Max Bickford").
Tim is also expert at search engine optimization for websites, optimizing clients' web pages so that they come up at or near the top of searches on their most relevant keywords.
Tim has a BS in Music Composition, and has been a musician and composer for many years. Before the coming of the World Wide Web, Tim was, among other things, a legal secretary, office manager, and book editor.
