Kristin Celauro is a Vice President at Owen Blicksilver Public Relations, Inc., a position she has held since September 2005. Ms. Celauro's responsibilities include developing and executing communications plans surrounding mergers and acquisitions, special situations and confidential assignments, including crises and executive successions, and ongoing positioning and communications. Client responsibilities include Blue Wolf Capital Partners, Blum Capital Partners, Clearlake Capital Group, Colony Capital, Conduit Capital, Ranieri Partners, TPG Capital and Vestar Capital Partners. Prior to joining OBPR, she was a Vice President in the Special Situations group at Financial Dynamics, where her communications assignments included the acquisition of the Rouse Company by General Growth Properties, representing Lionel Trains during its bankruptcy and restructuring and The Children's Place's acquisition of The Disney Store North America, and special assignments for clients including CIT and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to that, she was a Senior Associate at Citigate Sard Verbinnen where she worked on a broad range of special situations, including DHL's acquisition of Airborne Express, Martha Stewart's court proceedings and Univision Communications' acquisition of Hispanic Broadcasting; and ongoing corporate positioning for Univision Communications, Thornburg Mortgage and URS, among additional and confidential assignments. Ms. Celauro graduated from Smith College with a double major in English Language and Literature and Women's Studies.