Lon G. Walls, President & Chief Executive Officer

Lon established Walls Communications, Inc. in 1993, after leaving his position as vice president and manager of the Washington, DC office of Hill & Flowers Public Relations, a Chicago-based public relations firm. Before joining Hill & Flowers, Lon was the director of media relations and special projects for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in Washington. During his tenure at DOT, he directed all media relations activities for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Transportation. In addition, Lon created and implemented a nationally distributed radio news actuality service and managed an extensive internal communications system for the Department’s 110,000 employees nationwide.

Before his appointment to the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1991, he served as campaign communications director for the District of Columbia’s Republican mayoral candidate, Maurice Turner. Preceding his foray into politics, Lon spent more than 10 years in the field of health care public affairs and public relations. From 1988 until 1990, he was bureau director for the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, serving as chief spokesperson and manager of the media relations department for the 279-bed pediatric medical center. Lon served as the media relations manager for several Washington area health care facilities including Fairfax Hospital and Greater Southeast Community Hospital. Lon began his health care career with the American Red Cross in 1979 as the public relations director of the organization's Northwest Ohio Chapter.

From 1979 until 1982, he was a media relations specialist for the American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, DC. Lon has also been a newspaper reporter and freelance writer for the Toledo Blade and Atlanta Daily World. He has also written for Dollars & Sense and Black Belt Magazines. He is a past president of the Capital Press Club, the oldest African-American press organization in the nation and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Lon received a bachelor of arts in history and English and a bachelor of science in journalism from Ohio University.

Bob Ellison, Senior Vice President

Bob serves as Senior Vice President of Walls Communications, Inc. Bob, a media relations specialist, is responsible for developing communications strategies and events for the firm's clients. He is also the News Director of Washington NewsWorks, the WCI division that prepares and distributes news releases, audio news releases and produces radio media tours. Bob ensures that client media relations needs are met. To date, he has developed media relations strategies and organized press conferences, radio media tours and audio news releases for clients such as the National Urban League, the National Council on Disability and Freddie Mac.

Prior to joining Walls Communications, Bob served as a White House Correspondent, covering the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations. He is also past president of the White House Correspondents Association. Before entering the public affairs and journalism fields, he designed and evaluated U.S. foreign assistance projects for the Agency for International Development while serving in Ethiopia, Thailand and Liberia. Bob received a bachelor of arts in social sciences from St. John’s University

Edythe Missy Daniels, Vice President/Client Services

Missy is Vice President/Client Services for Walls Communications, Inc. In this capacity, Missy designs public relations, marketing outreach and communications strategies for the firms’ corporate clients including AT&T, Washington Convention Center Authority, Shell Oil Company and the Congress of National Black Churches. Additionally, she serves as senior counsel on a number of the firm’s non-profit clients including Bank of America, the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Denny’s and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

Missy also serves as Walls’ community relations liaison. She has more than 12 years experience in coordinating meetings, conferences, projects and promotions for associations and non-profit organizations. Before joining WCI, Missy served as a meeting planner for the National Association of Health Services Executives. Prior to that, she was the special projects manager for the Committee to Promote Washington, where she coordinated specific program activities to promote Washington DC as a tourist attraction. Missy received a bachelor of arts in political science from the Ohio State University. She has studied organizational management at the University of Maryland, University College. She is currently enrolled in the masters of divinity program at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.

Marvin Wamble, Vice President/Creative Strategies

Marvin serves as Vice President of Creative Strategies for Walls Communications, Inc. His extensive experience in public relations and journalism allows him to develop and execute strategic communications plans for a variety of WCI clients including the United States Army, Miller & Long and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. As senior writer, he oversees the writing and editing of press releases, actualities, speeches, audio and video news releases as well as any editorial commentary.

Marvin has more than 20 years of communications experience. He was a radio talk show host, an award-winning daily journalist and served as public relations director for a several large corporations including AT&T and Ameritech. Marvin received his bachelor of arts in mass communications from California State University at Hayward.

Derrick Kenny, Director of Radio Operations

Derrick serves as Director of Radio Operations for Walls Communications, Inc. Derrick, a technical and media relations specialist, is responsible for managing the day-to-day operation of the Capitol Radio Network, Walls Communications’ broadcast radio division. He coordinates the production and distribution of high quality audio products for radio, Internet, Intranet, CD and digital broadcasts. He also manages the scheduling and facilitation of radio media tours.

His client beneficiaries include Shell Oil, the National Urban League, Hewlett Packard, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the U.S. Army.

Prior to joining Walls in 1997, Derrick interned with several Washington, DC broadcast organizations including WPGC-FM/AM and MSNBC. In his life outside of Walls Communications, Inc., Derrick provided leadership to the Capital Press Club as president and led the Audio/Visual efforts of Metropolitan Baptist Church as Director of the Multi-media Ministry.