OUR STAFF
RAM COMMUNICATIONS
Ronald A. Margulis
Managing Director
Ron Margulis brings more than 25 years of work and management experience to RAM Communications. He started the firm in 1993 as an editorial support agency and has grown it into a full service public relations and marketing consulting company with five employees and more than a dozen clients, including CHEP, S&H greenpoints, IGA, Ecolab, RW3 Technologies, AquiTec, Nat Sherman, Grocery Manufacturers association, Teradata and Inter-IKEA. Ron leads the agency's media relations, speech writing and newsletter publishing efforts, and manages administration and business development.
With more than 1,000 articles published, Ron is also an accredited journalist. His writings on the food, retail, information technology and transportation industries have appeared in Canadian Business, Chicago Tribune, Cigar, Computerworld, Convenience Store News, Executive Technology, FT.com, Food Arts, ID, Sales & Marketing, Supermarket News, Washington Times and several other newspapers and magazines. As an editor and reporter, he has interviewed more than 50 CEOs of leading global companies and dozens of government officials including four US Cabinet Secretaries, the Governor of the Bank of England and the Treasurer of Australia. He has won numerous awards for his writing, has written more than one dozen industry reports/white papers and is contributing editor of three professional reference books. Harvard Business School Press published Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment, to which he contributed two chapters, in June 2002.
Prior to starting RAM Communications, Ron was editor of Distribution Channels and Shipping Digest magazines. He started his journalism career at Forbes, where he was a reporter and assistant editor covering the food, tobacco, retail and transportation industries.
Ron has been quoted in several leading newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer and Smart Money, on topics ranging from the retail industry to crisis communications, and was featured on Radio Canada and Bloomberg TV segments. He has spoken at numerous business and academic conferences, and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Public Relations Society of America.
Ron graduated from George Washington University, earned his Master's in economics from New York University and studied journalism at University of London. The son and grandson of supermarket operators, he also completed a management training internship and meat cutter's apprenticeship at Wakefern Food Corp. (Shop-Rite Supermarkets).
With his wife, Patricia Paul, and their daughter Elena, Ron lives in central New Jersey. His recreational activities and hobbies include fencing (President, Westfield Fencing Club), hiking, skiing, reading, cooking and map collecting.