Steven Cody   Immediate Past Chair   Steven Cody is co-founder and Managing Partner of Peppercom, a mid-sized independent public relations firm with offices in New York, San Francisco and London. Peppercom specializes in the corporate, financial and technology sectors, with such clients as GE, ITT Industries, Ricoh Corporation and Steelcase. Peppercom has numerous industry awards and finished #233 on the Inc. Magazine 2001 list of fastest growing U.S. companies.          Steve has authored numerous articles on branding, positioning, crisis communications and sales strategies for such publications as Advertising Age, BtoB, Silicon Valley Business Ink and PR week. He has appeared on MSNBC and CNNfn. His book, What keeps your customer awake at night?, was published by McGraw-Hill in March 2003. Phone: (212) 681-1333 Email: scody@peppercom.com