Michael Tangeman is a communications and media relations professional, who has worked extensively across multiple traditional and online media platforms as a news reporter, editor and foreign correspondent, online content and business conference producer, and public relations executive.

As Vice-President at The Pen Group Communications, Michael has managed agency accounts, developed strategies and successfully executed media- and public-relations campaigns on behalf of business clients and other organizations, including Forum Nokia and Nokia Latin America, Equitrac Corporation, Avanquest Software, StudioNow, the Florida League of Women Voters, the Community Association Leadership Lobby and others. He also develops social media strategies for Pen Group clients and was responsible for the launch in 2008 of the agency's Social Media Client Newsroom.

As a former journalist, Michael's byline and credits appeared appeared in a variety of news publications, including Infrastructure Finance & Institutional Investor magazines, LatinFinance magazine, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Market News International, Catholic News Service, Newsweek, Informa Telecoms & Media Group newsletters and others.Logo1h-th-new.jpg

In 2000, he joined Internet startup 1hemisphere.com as chief information and content officer, responsible for production of all online content in three languages and the portal's daily 1hemisphereNews channel. Prior to joining The Pen Group in 2004, Tangeman also directed online information services, coordinated media outreach and was responsible for all aspects of program development and operations for business-to-business technology conferences in Miami and Latin America.

Michael is author of the book, Mexico at the Crossroads (Orbis Books, 1995), on the role of religion and politics in the 1994 Zapatista rebellion of indigenous groups in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. A member of the Authors Guild, he holds an M.A. degree in Latin American Studies and lives and works in Miami, Florida.

From Aug. '06 to Sep. '08, he blogged regularly at media mindshare about the impact of emerging technologies on the news media and public relations.