Wayne Schepens has worked in cybersecurity for more than 20 years and now serves as the managing director for LaunchTech Communications in Baltimore, Maryland. Working with a strong team of staff and executives at LaunchTech, Wayne Schepens has used his talents to help guide the company to becoming one of the preeminent PR firms in the Baltimore area. Earlier this year, research company Expertise identified LaunchTech Communications as a public relations company of excellence, naming it as a Top 15 PR firm out of 168 total in Baltimore. The ranking comes in the midst of a banner year for LaunchTech that has seen it raise the profile of several clients, including Ntrepid, which was featured in Consumer Reports magazine, lending its expertise to an article examining phishing scams on the Google Docs platform. LaunchTech was also able to help Denim Group secure a featured spot in a Reuters piece about Google’s Titan technology and also connected several other clients with CyberDefense Magazine in featured article content. To learn more about LaunchTech and its services, visit golaunchtech.com.
An experienced security professional who has been in the field for more than two decades, Wayne Schepens serves as the managing director of LaunchTech Communications, a role he has held since 2015. As part of a diverse team of professionals at LaunchTech, Wayne Schepens helped lead the company to a strong first half of 2018. At the beginning the year, the company helped guide the launch of a new Internet of Things (IoT) startup known as Zuul, which began its seed phase of investment funding. LaunchTech was able to build a strong public profile and presence for the company by leveraging its media network contacts throughout the state, ensuring solid news coverage in Maryland for Zuul, which had been named Start-Up of the Year by Information Security Products just before making its media push. Later in the spring, LaunchTech worked on behalf of 10 different clients during the RSA 2018 cybersecurity conference, helping these companies arrange briefings with dozens of media outlets and leading analysts. LaunchTech is rolling out its Launch Tips monthly series, which will focus on providing simple and practical tips for firms trying to spread their messaging throughout their respective marketplaces.
