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David Hahn
Managing Director, Planned Television Arts
For the past twenty-five years David Hahn has counseled hundreds of clients, helping each one to develop their unique brand and execute an effective publicity campaign.
Many clients have been bestselling authors over the years including President Jimmy Carter, Harvey Mackay, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Nelson deMille, Jackie Collins, Richard Preston, Bill George, Dick De Vos, Ken Blanchard, Steve Kaplan, Robert Bloom, Neil Rackham, Herb Kelleher, Martin Cruz Smith and many others.
His publishing clients include Harvard Business School Press, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Portfolio Books, St. Martins Press, HarperCollins, Putnam Publishing Group, Zondervan Publishing, Thomas Nelson, Baker Book House, AMACOM, Perseus Books, and Berrett Koehler among others.
He created PTA's patented Morning Drive Radio Tour in 1990 as well as its trademarked TelePrint Conference in 1994.
Named Managing Director of Planned TV Arts (a division of Ruder Finn) in December 2007, David now oversees all the agency's operations including full service Book Publicity Campaigns, Satellite TV Tours, Morning Drive Radio Tours, Celebrity Matching Service, Corporate Media Tours, and Online Marketing Services. He also continues to oversee PTA's award-winning Business Book division. He will be expanding the company's operations by starting up offices in Chicago and San Francisco in 2008.
David joined Planned TV Arts in 1986 after working at The Putnam Publishing Group in the early 80's in their marketing department. He previously worked at the Ann Elmo Literary Agency and the Betsy Nolan Group.
An avid soccer fan he enjoys travel, gardening, tennis, and as much reading as he can squeeze in alongside the PTA books! An alumnus of Swarthmore College and New York University, David resides in Rockland County, New York with his wife Linda and five children, Emily, Jamie, Christian, Jocelyn and Alex.
