Editor Emeritus, beAgilent Magazine

Agilent Technologies granted Ms. Flood the editorship of beAgilent Magazine, an award-winning publication with a circulation of 45,000, in 2000. Distribution included all employees and many customers of Agilent Technologies. She began her corporate communications career as Executive Communications Specialist for Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1996 producing communications for three executive vice presidents. Other roles at Agilent prior to the editorship included Financial Communications Manager, where she provided internal communications for the CFO and Controllership, and on occasion, CEO Ned Barnholt.

Ms. Flood brings almost 20 years of corporate and agency experience to the judging panel. For PG&E corporate, she managed projects for Market Research, Strategic Planning & Positioning, and the Pacific Energy Center. Earlier in her career she was an advertising account executive for Long, Haymes & Carr, Inc., in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she drove print advertising projects for five brands of Hanes Hosiery and Hanes Underwear.

"It is a great honor to once again be selected as a judge for the Dalton Pen Awards. I look forward to immersing myself in the contest's diverse entries and experiencing firsthand the work of today's star communicators," states Ms. Flood.

Ms. Flood's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, where she was one of three undergraduates invited to join Bryn Mawr College Excavations in Tuscany. She received a Master of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in Classical Archaeology. During that time she was a member of The American School of Classical Studies in Athens' summer excavation team in the Athenian Agora and studied one summer at the American Academy in Rome. She also earned a Masters in Business Administration from Wake Forest University with a concentration in Marketing.