Rich
Palmay
Senior Strategic Consultant
Rich Palmay has been involved with communications, media relations and community relations programs for more than 20 years. He has held leadership positions in several leading companies, beginning with AIL Systems, Inc. in Deer Park, New York, a division of Cleveland's Eaton Corporation. In the early '90s, he was recruited by General Electric at its Government Electronic Systems Division in Moorestown, New Jersey, where he played an important role in managing and communicating change to employees - and improving the business' communications processes.
Over the next nine years, Rich had the opportunity to experience and communicate more change, by participating as a key communicator through the consolidation of the defense industry and three landmark mergers of large corporations - and their associated cultures, including Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin. He concluded his corporate career as director of Communications for one of Lockheed Martin's largest and most successful businesses, where he worked closely with employee teams, facilitating their growth, and getting out of their way, when necessary. The business ultimately earned several industry honors, including being named one of "America's Ten Best Plants," by Industry Week magazine in its annual competitive assessment of American manufacturers, the New Jersey Quality Achievement Award, as well as two consecutive entries for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Rich left Lockheed Martin in 2000 to pursue a consulting career in internal communications and public relations with L.M. Dulye & Co. He has held leadership positions in the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey for a number of years, and is a past member of its board or directors, chairman of its annual business expo for five years and former vice chairman of its member services division and charitable foundation. He is also a member of the board of directors for the United Way of Burlington County, the board of Trustees of the Memorial Hospital Foundation and the Ambulatory Board of the Virtua Health System.
Rich graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. During his professional career, he has participated in a number of management development courses at Lockheed Martin, as well as GE's Management Institute at Crotonville.
His wife, Noreen is a labor and delivery nurse at one of New Jersey's busiest hospitals. They have two active children and Rich has been fortunate to share his passion for the game of ice hockey with his son. He has coached his son's teams for the last five years and is now an assistant coach at the junior varsity level. Rich continues to compete in a men's league in his town of Medford, New Jersey. And, yes, those are his original teeth.