Len Gutman:  

nd software and was Manager of Communications at AlliedSignal Aerospace in Phoenix. My background also includes five years of positions of increasing responsibility in communications at TRW Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., and jobs as an investor relations consultant, a magazine editor and a sports journalist. I am a member of both the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and served as president of IABC Phoenix in 2003-04. I earned my accreditation from IABC in 2002, a designation achieved by less than 5 percent of the organization’s 13,000 members worldwide. I am an alumni of Valley Leadership, was named as one of the “Forty Under Forty” up-and-coming community leaders by The Phoenix Business Journal, and am an advisory board member for the American Lung Association of Arizona. I am the author of Giving Time: Making A Difference in Your Community (Llumina Press, 2003) and am a longtime columnist and contributing writer for the Arizona Republic. My writing has also appeared in various publications including The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Ahwatukee Monthly and Raising Arizona Kids.