Team – Carline Kaplan
Carline Kaplan, Spin’s senior consultant located in Los Angeles, has 20 years of diverse public relations experience including specialties in strategic counseling, crisis communications, project management and event planning. Carline has been an active team member at Spin for more than five years.
Carline is well connected within the Los Angeles entertainment industry and brings excellent LA and national media relations and event expertise to the Spin PR team. Carline’s recent event related projects include handling national electronic media relations for The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. She oversaw content and production of four days of live coverage with The Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN and handled more than a dozen local TV crews. In addition, she spearheaded media relations for BIO, one of the world’s largest trade shows and oversaw press requests from more than 300 onsite media outlets. She is currently promoting 50 free concerts and events in LA’s MacArthur Park for the Friends of The Levitt Pavilion.
Prior to partnering with Spin, Carline ran an LA–based public relations firm for 12 years. Some of her recent clients include American Express, American Express Financial Advisors, The Sports Club/LA, Epilar, HBO, Cox Interactive Media, Hint Mints, The Sallie Mae Fund and many more. Before that she supervised the healthcare division of Porter/Novelli in Los Angeles. She successfully launched new products and services for dozens of leading manufacturers, providers and non-profits including Johnson & Johnson, Laserscope, Mentor and The March of Dimes. She also worked on the agency’s leading consumer accounts including McDonalds, Baskin Robbins and Kia Motors.
Formerly at Rogers & Cowan in Los Angeles, she oversaw that agency’s largest corporate accounts, launching major consumer product lines including multi-city media tours for Johnnie Walker, Dom Perignon, Moet, Tanqueray, and more. She also worked on the Crown and Regal Princess’ inaugural cruises and the Oldsmobile Achieva launch as well as working directly with Merv Griffin on the re-launch of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.