Hali Simon Is a Public Relations Veteran with 20 Years Experience in the Entertainment

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Hali Simon is a public relations veteran with 20 years experience in the entertainment industry. She formed HALI PUBLIC RELATIONS, specializing in television and entertainment clients, in 2001 and has represented such clients as USA Network, the Hallmark Channel, SCI FI Channel, PBS documentary filmmakers Two Cats Productions and Santa Fe Productions, popular cable networks E! Entertainment Television and WE: Women's Entertainment, Los Angeles production companies Digital Ranch, Stone Stanley and Hallock/Healey Entertainment, among others.

Prior to the formation of HALI PUBLIC RELATIONS, Simon was the Vice President of Communications at Broadway Television Network where she successfully launched the pay-per-view premiere presentation of Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller. Before that, Simon was Director, Corporate Communications at Flooz.com, where she devised the public relations strategy for the creator of the world's first online gift currency.

Simon spent four years at USA Network, lastly as the Director of Media Relations & Corporate Communications. While there, she was responsible for creating and implementing publicity campaign strategies for USA Network’s original programming, and headed up publicity campaigns for numerous USA Pictures Originals and several USA Original Series, including one of the network’s most popular, La Femme Nikita.

Previously, Simon served as Senior Account Supervisor for Entertainment and Corporate Communications at The Lippin Group, responsible for publicity on such television series as Homicide: Life On The Street (NBC), New York Undercover (FOX), Law and Order (NBC), and Later…With Bob Costas (NBC). Prior to that, she was the East Coast Press Representative in the Entertainment Division of the CBS Television Network, and began her career at the New York City firm of Schecter/Cone/McCallister.

Currently an Ambassador Family for the March of Dimes, Simon serves on the organization’s Communications Network and is dedicated to spreading the word about the March of Dimes and their work to save babies and find a way to prevent premature births. For her work on behalf of The March of Dimes, she received the 2002 Triangle Award for Excellence in Communications.

Born in Coram, New York, Simon graduated from Long IslandUniversity, C.W.PostCollege with a B.F.A. in Public Relations. She currently resides in Wayne, New Jersey with her husband Marc Goldfine, their daughter Melissa, son Spencer and three silly shih-tzus.