Barbara Kline, President
Barbara Kline is an experienced public relations professional with PR experience on three continents. She was a participant in the development of most of the major new markets created by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for 20 years. She excels in strategic PR and marketing and in translating her clients’ messages to relate to the emotional and intellectual environment of the target audience—that is, prospect, customer, investor, employee, or other important stakeholder.
As principal of Breakthru Communications since 1989, she has specialized in strategic planning for corporate and product launches. Breakthru offices are located to in the San Francisco Bay area and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Kline specializes in strategic planning for corporate and product launches and company growth, and has been a content consultant and presentation coach for companies aspiring to present to San Francisco Bay Area Venture Capitalists at the 1:1 Visibility Conferences in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Shehas served as an advisor for the Technology Venture Corp’s Equity Venture Capital Symposium and as an instructor for CCET for more than five years.
Since the early ‘80s she has served as a consultant to such major technology firms as Cadence, Intel, HP, Marvell Semiconductors, Novell, and S3. A respected industry leader and trade association organizer and advisor she has worked with such industry groups as NetWorld, SNIA and WITI. She is a member of the New Mexico Angels Investor group, the Association for Commerce and Industry, and is Communications Director for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) in northern New Mexico.
Prior to her work with her agency, she had both domestic and international management experience with Intel, where she was responsible for introducing the concept, practice and execution of product marketing for the MDS development system brand in Europe. This experience served her well as she moved to other international consulting roles and her stint as Vice President of Global Marketing for the Dutch firm, BWise. Kline honed her business marketing skills under the tutelage of such Silicon Valley luminaries as Regis McKenna.
Kline has been traveling to Asia for more than 20 years and was on the team that introduced NTT’s first ISP program in the US. She has been a technical and business consultant to several PR firms in Japan, and has introduced several Japanese companies into North America. She was also a delegate to the First China-US Meeting on Development of Women in 2007.
Kline has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Cincinnati, advanced degrees in behavioral studies. She has traveled extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has lived in Belgium and the Netherlands.