Gail Stoorza-Gill is Chairman and CEO of The Right Question, LLC, a marketing consulting firm specializing in solving marketing problems through qualitative research. The firm also provides public relations consulting to large and small companies alike, and conducts agency reviews for organizations wishing to evaluate advertising, public relations and public affairs firms.
For over 25 years she was Chairman and CEO of Stoorza Communications, Inc., a marketing public relations firm which she founded and built into the largest independent public relations firm in California with four offices and 100 staff members.
Highly active in civic and professional affairs, Stoorza-Gill served as Chairman of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce, the first female to serve in this role. She is a member of the Young President's Association and was chairman of the local chapter. She is also a member of the prestigious Arthur Page Society, an organization of the nation's leading public relations professionals. She was named by PR Week, the nation's leading public relations professional publication, as one of the nation's "50 Most Influential Women in Public Relations".
She currently serves as Vice Chairman of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation, having been nominated for this position by the mayor and unanimously elected by the San Diego City Council. She also serves on the boards of The San Diego Economic Development Corporation, Security Business Bank of San Diego and The Independent Colleges of Southern California Foundation.
She is a monthly columnist for The San Diego Daily Transcript.
She has served as co-chairman of Accolades, a weeklong celebration honoring the armed forces in San Diego County, and was the recipient of the Human Unity Award by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Ms. Stoorza-Gill and her husband, Ian Gill, have chaired the San Diego Children's Hospital's annual "Gala," one of its major fund-raising events. She is frequently a featured speaker at national conventions, colleges and universities on the subject of marketing and public relations. |