Gina von Esmarch

Marketing Director

Gina von Esmarch's mandate at AmericaOne is to structure and implement sponsor partnerships which meet the individual company's goals, objectives, and needs and to oversee an overall fulfillment, public relations and marketing effort designed to bring maximum return to our sponsor partners. Von Esmarch's passion for the public and media relations programs affords her an opportunity to closely work on the continued development of the syndicate's image by strategically targeting high-visibility opportunities for the team.

Prior to her career in sports marking and public relations with AmericaOne, von Esmarch worked at Miller/Shandwick Technologies, specializing in high-tech public relations. Her editorial and marketing expertise included Internet products, software, telecommunications, networking, client/server technology, computer storage and other peripheral devices. Prior to joining Miller/Shandwick, she was a public relations specialist at Sybase, Inc.

Von Esmarch began sailing on San Francisco Bay at age six with her father, P. Terry Anderlini. From 1974 to 1980 she crewed in many Knarr-class regattas, including the International Knarr Championship events in 1982 (Copenhagen) and 1983 (San Francisco). She skippered her first boat, an El Toro, in 1980, and two years later purchased and skippered a Laser. Her passion for sailing continued into high school and she regularly crewed on her family's Islander 36, Wild Thing, and joined the junior Laser sailing programs at both the St. Francis and San Francisco yacht clubs.

Von Esmarch's public relations involvement includes pro bono work for many non-profit organizations. She holds a Master of Arts degree in public relations from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Italian from the University of San Diego.