Shore Fire Media announces eight staff promotions

Brooklyn, NY (June 15, 2018) -- Shore Fire Media president and founder Marilyn Laverty announced eight staff promotions today. Rebecca Shapiro and Matt Hanks have been elevated to the position of Senior Vice President, and Josh Page has advanced to Director. Additionally, the following staff members have been promoted to new roles: Nina Lee and Ally Norton to Senior Account Executive; and Greg Jakubik, Spencer Roth-Rose and Hannah Schwartz to Junior Account Executive. 

"The growth of our roster, and the addition of an LA office earlier this year, were made possible by the extraordinary performance and professional growth of each of these staffers," Laverty says. "We are so grateful for their contribution to Shore Fire." 

Rebecca Shapiro has been part of the Shore Fire team for nearly two decades. A native of Chicago, IL, she was educated at Connecticut College. She sits on the board of directors of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, which presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and also works closely with the MPN Research Foundation, a non-profit founded by her father that drives research for rare blood cancers. Shapiro currently lives in Chelsea with her husband and two children. 

Matt Hanks came to Shore Fire in 2000, having previously worked at Autotonic, a PR/radio promotion company, and New York City record store Other Music. Originally from Nashville, TN, he graduated from Tulane University. He now lives in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood with his wife and two daughters. 

"With offices in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles, and a dynamic and ever-expanding roster, there's never been a more exciting time to be at Shore Fire," Shapiro says. "The publicists being recognized today will help define Shore Fire in the new media landscape of tomorrow." 

"These promotions speak to Shore Fire's supportive culture and core belief in promoting from within," Hanks adds. "All of us, myself included, started here as junior publicists, and we're thrilled to share this recognition with Shore Fire's next generation of leaders." 

Josh Page's tenure at Shore Fire began eight years ago as an intern. He was most recently a Senior Account Executive. Josh is originally from Hopewell, NJ, and was educated at The College of New Jersey. He now resides in Brooklyn, where he enjoys poetry, going to drag shows and hunting down the latest horror films. 

Nina Lee is in her third year with Shore Fire and previously was an Account Executive. Before Shore Fire, she worked for Press Here Publicity and graduated from New York University's College of the Arts & Science with a double major in Journalism and Linguistics. Originally from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn. 

Ally Norton helms Shore Fire's Los Angeles office, which opened in January of this year. A Fairfield, CT, native, she started with the company as a Junior Account Executive in 2015 after graduating from Boston College with a double major in English and Communications. She currently lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. 

Greg Jakubik joined Shore Fire in 2017 as a Publicity Coordinator. He recently graduated summa cum laude from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Recorded Music. Originally from Lake Forest, IL, he currently lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant. 

Spencer Roth-Rose began as a Publicity Coordinator for Shore Fire last year. A native of Providence, RI, he received a degree in American Studies from Brown University in 2017. Roth-Rose currently lives in Flatbush and also writes for The Onion. 

Hannah Schwartz joined Shore Fire as a Publicity Coordinator in 2017 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in European History. Schwartz hails from Ocean Township, NJ, but now lives in Williamsburg, where she pursues her interest in medieval and early modern European history. 

About Shore Fire Media

Shore Fire Media is a standard-setting boutique PR and online marketing firm with offices in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Nashville. Our award-winning campaigns in the fields of entertainment, music, book publishing, fashion and consumer products and services have won praise for their high quality, integrity and sense of artistry. Shore Fire music artists consistently top Billboard charts, have collectively received more than 300 Grammy nominations and have won over 100 awards since 2002 in key categories such as Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. We are the only entertainment PR firm whose clients have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Tony Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award and the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.