New Advisory Board provides insight and expertise to CG&A COMMUNICATIONS’ health care clients

November 4, 2009 – CG&A COMMUNICATIONS today announced the creation of a Health Sector Advisory Board to advise the company and its clients on current affairs and the evolving challenges facing the health care sector in Ontario.

Company president Chris George states the new Board will be a touchstone for CG&A COMMUNICATIONS consultants and clients. “This distinguished group will provide counsel and their insight into the many competing agendas within the healthcare sector. Board members have a pulse on current affairs within the sector and they can lend their input into stakeholder relations and effective communications practices.”

The CG&A COMMUNICATIONS Health Care Advisory Board is comprised of four individuals from differing backgrounds. Mr. George explains, “Together, the Board members offer a wide-angled view of what is happening with health care services in Ontario. We are fortunate to be able to draw on Board members’ varied perspectives as a hospital Board Chairman, or a professional regulator’s Board member, or from a public opinion or social media vantage point.”

“To be able to draw on the expertise of the Board will be invaluable to our clients’ ability to react to and move decisively on the hard realities of decreasing budgets, increasing costs and greater and greater demands on health services.” Mr. George adds, “This group brings its talents, acumen and experience to bear on the issues of the day.”

Board members are:

• Antonio Carvalho – career senior manager in financial and gaming sectors, with various Board experiences that includes Hospital Chairmanship
• Vicki Griffiths – career marketing executive with a focus on health, and former Board member and advisor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
• Nik Nanos – national pollster and public affairs commentator, with varied health care experience within public and industry sectors
• Nathan Rudyk – president of an on-line marketing company with expertise in social networking communications campaigns; noted social media expert

The Advisory Board is available to the company’s consultants to provide independent, expert counsel, insight and information on an ad hoc basis. As an independent advisory group, the Board members are not consultants of and do not receive remuneration from CG&A COMMUNICATIONS. (Board member backgrounds are attached.)

CG&A COMMUNICATIONS is a public relations firm with a network of consultants in Ottawa, the GTA and the Niagara Region. Visit: www.cgacommunications.com

For more information on the Advisory Board, contact:

Chris George (905) 641-0800; chris@cgacommunications.com