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Mary Lynn Coyle is a corporate communications, branding and marketing communications executive and consultant with experience in management consulting, executive search, information and high technology, manufacturing, consumer products and non-profit arenas. She has directed communications strategies and projects in more than 20 countries and her programs have won almost 50 international, national and local communications awards.

Currently a communications consultant, she is the former vice president, corporate communications for Sabre, Inc., an information technology company in the travel and transportation industries. She joined Sabre in 1997 to create a corporate communications function for this new subsidiary of AMR Corporation. She was responsible for the development of the corporate brand strategy and accompanying programs and for new corporate programs in media relations, internal communications, electronic communications, executive communications and community relations.

Prior to joining Sabre, Ms. Coyle was an officer and vice president, corporate communications for A.T. Kearney, Inc., the global management consulting firm. She has also held communications positions with UOP, Inc., Northern Petrochemical Company, Kitchens of Sara Lee and several educational and health care institutions.

She has undertaken communications consulting assignments throughout her career and has recently worked for companies in the Internet, information technology, management consulting, financial services, engineering and public relations industries.

Ms. Coyle holds a masters degree in business administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, a masters of science degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Creighton University.

She has served on public relations councils for trade, professional and community associations. She was a founding director of Creighton University's National Alumni Board, the Omaha Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, the Des Plaines, Illinois Sister City Association and a director of that city's chamber of commerce.

Ms. Coyle lives in Dallas, Texas.