Our Leadership

Karen Higgins founded A & E Communications, Inc. in 2003. As a PR consultant, Karen provides her clients with high quality marketing communications programs that produce significant return on investment. She works with small and mid-sized companies, helping them to build market awareness and credibility and take their business to the next level.

Previously as vice president of PR at TMP Worldwide (formerly Stackig Advertising & PR), Karen was responsible for providing strategic counsel, writing and publicity services and account management for a wide range of information technology and biotechnology organizations. Throughout her 10 years at TMP, she delivered significant results for her clients, including companies such as Roche Molecular Systems, Lotus Development Corporation, Naviant, Viaken Systems, PDS, the British Standards Institution, WAM Systems and Logicon (a Northrop Grumman company).

Currently, Karen is president-elect and Program Committee chair of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). As a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), she was the secretary for the Philadelphia Chapter in 1996, the 1997 chair of the Technology Committee and the 1998 chair of the Technology Education committee. In the late 1990s, Karen was the Communications chair for the BIO IT Coalition in the Washington, DC area.

A graduate of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., she holds a Bachelors of Science degree in business/marketing.