Wortman Works Media & Marketing
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Jules Wortman
Jules Wortman serves as president and owner of Wortman Works Media & Marketing in Nashville, TN. Ms. Wortman is a veteran public relations and marketing strategist who has developed a number of national campaigns for record labels, authors, music and sports clients. Her clients include Capitol Records, Chevrolet, John Rich and Phil Vassar. The firm has previously worked with The Charlie Daniels Band, Warner Bros. Records, Time Life Music, Stokes, Bartholomew, Petree & Evans P.C., Uncle Kracker, SHeDAISY, Pat Green, Bonnie Bramlett, award-winning songwriter Gretchen Peters, Scene Three Media Works alliance, John Michael Montgomery, Mark Wills, Rita Coolidge, Sony Music Nashville and more.
From 2002 to 2007, Jules Wortman served as the senior vice president of publicity and artist development for Warner Bros. Records where she oversaw all aspects of the label’s communication efforts for the company and its artists, such as Faith Hill, Big & Rich, Blake Shelton, Cowboy Troy, John Anderson, Ray Scott and more.
From 1994 to 1997, as vice president of publicity and video for MCA Records in Nashville, Wortman oversaw all national media campaigns for George Strait, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and The Mavericks. She secured national profiles for label president Tony Brown, who was also named one of Entertainment Weekly’s most powerful leaders. Ms. Wortman was also director of publicity for three years at Atlantic Records where she helped introduce many new artists, including multi-platinum selling artists John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Lawrence and Neal McCoy. Prior experience also includes manager of media and artist development at Sony Music and as an account executive for Network Ink Public Relations.
Ms. Wortman is active on behalf of many charities in Nashville. She currently chairs the communications committee of the T.J. Martell Foundation and has served on the board of directors (Ad Agency/ Public Relations) for the Country Music Association (CMA), as well as the board of Nashville Chamber Orchestra. In the past, she has been an active member of Leadership Music, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), Music City Tennis Invitational, Junior Achievement, and the Nashville Sports Council. In October 2000, Ms. Wortman was selected to assist the Democratic National Committee as a press secretary for the presidential race and their Tennessee Victory 2000 campaign for Al Gore and statewide elections.
In July 2005, she married Jay Pomeroy and settled in Hendersonville. She is a graduate of East Tennessee State University and loves to travel and participate in an array of sports including tennis, swimming and golf.
Kristin Palmer
A native of Dahlonega, a small gold-mining town nestled in the North Georgia mountains, Palmer grew up around the world moving from base to base as the child of an Army family.
She attended North Georgia College and State University, a top U.S. military school, and majored in classical piano with minors in Voice and French.
Palmer moved to Nashville to work on an MBA from Belmont University and has been taking night classes for three years while working full time. She anticipates graduating in August 2008.
She first worked with Jules Wortman Pomeroy at Warner Bros. Nashville and rejoins her at Wortman Works.
A travel enthusiast, Palmer’s journeys include a trip to Capetown, South Africa, to study social entrepreneurship.
In her spare time she loves to play piano, read, watch films, spend time with friends and care for her dog, Gunther.
Liz Jungers
A native of Terre Haute, Ind., Liz Jungers took a detour from a career in academics and ended up on Music Row.
Jungers was on her way to a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California Los Angeles when the entertainment industry beckoned.
An internship with Interscope Records in Los Angeles led her to move to Nashville, where she worked in sales and marketing and, later, publicity for Warner Bros. Nashville.
Jungers graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University – Bloomington with bachelors degrees in sociology and French.
Jungers enjoys playing jazz standards on the piano, dancing, reading, traveling, watching old movie musicals and cuddling Kaweah, her Chihuahua.