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Global Communicators Expands Financial Services PR With Addition of Scott Calahan as Senior International Adviser

WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 29, 2011) - Scott C. Calahan, founder and former CEO of Boston Portfolio Advisors, Inc. based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has joined the Global Communicators, LLC board of senior international advisers to provide GC’s professional staff and clients with global economic perspectives on assignments with domestic and international projects.

Jim Harff, GC president and CEO said, “Scott’s 30 years of experience in the financial services industry will provide expert guidance on our work during this perilous economic time in the United States and worldwide.” Harff said GC’s experience working with Calahan on the board of the Copenhagen Consensus Center USA, a GC client, “convinced us that our company and its clients could benefit from his sagacious advice, counsel, and contacts.”

Calahan founded Boston Portfolio Advisors in 1979 and served as CEO until 2008. With over 30 years of experience in asset management, asset evaluation. risk management. mortgage finance, auto finance, education finance, structured finance and capital markets, and related areas, Calahan will provide essential financial perspectives on the global economic scene.

Calahan is chairman of BPA Credit Corp. and a director of several privately held companies. He is a member of the board of directors and chairman of the finance committee of the Copenhagen Consensus Center USA, an adjunct of the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Copenhagen, a global think tank that provides a framework for governments and philanthropists to evaluate world challenges and allocate funds to the most cost-effective programs.

He is also chairman of the TERI Plan Trust Advisory Committee and a member of the Finance Advisory Board of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and engaged in Ph.D. studies in operations research at Case Western Reserve University.