Roger Pynn, APR, CPRC, President
Roger Pynn is founder, president and CEO of Curley & Pynn. He has been involved in Florida’s communications community since the late
1960s, starting his career as a journalist with the Orlando Sentinel. He began his public relations career in the mid-70s with an Orlando advertising agency where he helped establish The Public Relations
Group … the city’s first dedicated public relations consulting practice.
After corporate public relations stints at The Coastal Corporation’s east coast arm Belcher Oil Company and Westinghouse Electric
Corporation’s Power Generation Systems headquarters in Orlando, he co-founded Curley & Pynn in 1984. The firm has become one of
Florida’s most award-winning agencies and, in fact, was the first agency in the state ever to win the coveted Silver Anvil Award … highest recognition of the Public Relations Society of America.
A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Roger also studied in the graduate management program of the Crummer School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park.
He has been named UCF Distinguished Alumnus, and in 2008, the UCF Alumni Association recognized him in its first-ever presentation of Jefferson Awards for Volunteer Service. In 1993, he received the
Distinguished Achievement Award of his Alma Mater’s College of Arts & Sciences, and in 1997, the
Alumni Association gave him its Distinguished Service Award.
He is a past chairman of the board of directors and now an emeritus member of the UCF Foundation.
He also chairs the Dean’s Advisory Board of the UCF College of Sciences and serves on the board of visitors of UCF’s Nicholson School of Communications.
He served as a director and member of the Executive Committee of The Central Florida STEM Alliance – a 10-county initiative to improve math and science education, as well as the Florida Research
Consortium. He previously served as a director of the Orlando-Orange County Convention & Visitors
Bureau (now Visit Orlando) and myregion.org, a seven-county initiative that seeks a better future for
Central Florida.
Roger is accredited by both the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) and the Public Relations
Society of America (PRSA), and in 2010, earned FPRA’s designation as a Certified Public Relations
Counselor. In 1987, he was named Outstanding Public Relations Professional by FPRA in Orlando. In
2009, he was presented the John W. Dillin Award, the association’s highest honor.
A former president of both organizations’ Central Florida chapters, he was elected the 2013-14 chair of
FPRA’s Counselors Network and served three times as a statewide vice president of FPRA. Roger is statewide president-elect of FPRA. He is a past co-chair of the Ethics Judicial Panel of PRSA for Florida.