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O’DONNELL AGENCY FOUNDER RECOGNIZED AS 2014 PALM BEACH ULTIMATE CEO WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (April 2, 2014) --- O’Donnell Agency President and Creative Director, Carey O’Donnell, has been recognized by South Florida Business Journal as one of the top 10 2014 Palm Beach Ultimate CEOs. Presented by Comcast Business, the award highlights the county’s top 10 chief executives for their expertise, leadership and community involvement. O’Donnell, a resident of Downtown West Palm Beach, is well known in Palm Beach County for her community betterment contributions and leadership roles. “Innovation runs in the family,” according to the article about her approach to managing her public relations and advertising agency. Carey’s grandfather, Edwin J. Carey of New York and Palm Beach, served as president of Hertz Corporation and innovated fly/drive/stay packages with Conrad Hilton and various airline companies. Her grandfather, J.P. Carey, founded America’s first limousine company. The Agency’s client roster includes the Rivera Beach CRA, West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority, Boca Raton CRA, Oxbridge Academy, Max Planck Florida Institute, CityPlace, the Related Companies’ convention center hotel in West Palm Beach, Douglas Elliman, the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Broward Health Foundation, Viking Developers, HNTB of Kansas City, and more. O’Donnell is a Trustee of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches and served as the 2011 board chair. She is the board representative for County Commissioner Paulette Burdick on the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County and co-chairs its Education Marketing Task Force that is critical to the County’s ability to attract companies. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County, where she co-chairs the Programming Committee and is a past-chairman of the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau public relations committee. For six years, she chaired the Palm Beach County Education and Government Programming Advisory Board that supervises Channel 20. She is a member of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the Alumni Committee of Palm Beach Day Academy. Renowned in Florida for its creative concepts and representation of prestigious regional and national clients in education, commercial real estate, downtown districts, bioscience, law, banking and new products, the O’Donnell Agency is ranked by revenue among the top 10 public relations firms in the state. Over the past two years the firm has won 15 ADDY® awards from two South Florida Advertising Federation chapters. The firm offers fully integrated marketing services, including advertising, design, digital media, web content development and video production services. Its offices are in Downtown West Palm Beach, on Brickell Avenue in Miami and on Madison Avenue in New York City. The Palm Beach County honorees will be recognized with their counterparts in Broward and Dade counties at the 2014 Ultimate CEO Awards, to be held Oct. 23 at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood. For more information, please visit www.theodonnellagency.com.