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Public Relations

TBC is a full-service ad agency with in-house branding, direct marketing, public relations, media, interactive, broadcast production, and digital production capabilities.

Brent has provided strategic communications expertise to a diverse range of organizations including Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, government agencies and non-profits. He has a proven track record for taking nascent businesses and placing them in the national media spotlight where they have become thriving industry categories on their own. He also understands the importance of local clienteles and has built brand awareness for businesses in the Mid-Atlantic and hundreds of U.S. communities both large and small.He is in his 26th year with Baltimore-based TBC, Inc. where he leads the PR team for MinuteClinic, the nation’s largest provider of retail medical clinics with nearly 1100 clinics in CVS/pharmacy and Target stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia. He also serves as the communications director of Air Fare America, a travel, food and adventure television show in development, and PR counselor at Choptank Communications, a strategic communications firm started by his wife Andrea Vernot.Brent has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Silver Anvil from the Public Relations Society of America. He serves as Chairman of the Board for Community Law in Action, a Baltimore non-profit promoting youth leadership. He is a graduate of the Greater Baltimore Committee Leadership Program and the Perley Isaac Reed of School of Journalism at West Virginia University.