Dan Ward, APR, Vice President/Partner
Dan Ward, APR, is vice president and partner with Curley &
Pynn, providing advice and counsel to a wide range of clients,
and offering experience in issues management, strategic
communications, publicity and community relations.
An accredited member of the Florida Public Relations
Association (FPRA) – which named him the 2013 PR
Professional of the Year – and Public Relations Society of
America (PRSA), for which he served as president of the
Orlando Regional Chapter in 2004, Dan has practiced public
relations in Florida for more than 20 years.
Dan has been with Curley & Pynn since 1995, and today directs
the firm’s strategic communications programs and the teams that
implement them, supervising programs for clients in the advertising, electric utility, higher
education, economic development and travel industries.
Dan came to Curley & Pynn from the public relations division of YPartnership (formerly
Robinson, Yesawich & Pepperdine), where he managed publicity programs for such clients as
the SSC Radisson Diamond cruise ship, Radisson Hotels International, Disney Institute, Hotel
del Coronado, the Island of Saint Maarten and Premier Cruise Lines’ Big Red Boat.
He is a proud graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree with honors in journalism in 1992. He remains actively involved with the university,
serving on the board of visitors for the Nicholson School of Communication, which inducted him
into its Hall of Fame in 2011. Dan also serves on the board of directors for the Mid-Florida
Region of the American Red Cross.
Dan and his wife, Rae, have two children: Megan and Makenna.