We believe that an effective communications program is the sum of its parts: strategy & tactics, content & reach.

We are here to tell your story. We are the reach to your audience, the strategists behind your content.

The Devon Group is a tech PR and marketing agency. We serve a vibrant portfolio of global clients through a comprehensive selection of communications solutions.

With deep expertise in technology, The Devon Group operates as a strategic consultancy focused on helping brands attract new business, gain media coverage and raise funding. Every engagement reflects our hand-crafted approach, designed to increase mind-share and profitability for our clients. As a result, over the years, we've supported hundreds of tech brands, from startups to enterprise organizations.

Leadership

Katie Achille, Managing Partner

Katie is Managing Partner at The Devon Group, joining the agency in 2012. A writer and editor at heart, she came up through the ranks at Devon, overseeing content and operations. Earlier in her career, Katie worked in recruitment marketing and employer branding at Verizon, ran marketing at a lecture agency representing everyone from Fareed Zakaria to the late Joan Rivers, wrote a book with a member of Lyndon Johnson’s cabinet and paid her dues as a copywriter in the beauty industry. She is a Cornell University-trained crisis communicator, with a BA in Journalism and Media Studies from Rutgers University and her MA in Historical Studies from The New School.

Jeanne Achille, Founder and CEO

Jeanne is CEO of The Devon Group, which she founded as a tech PR agency in 1994. Throughout her career, she’s helped launch and promote thousands of new products, services, and companies. Jeanne has also supported numerous successful exits, from IPOs to strategic mergers and acquisitions. Her formal training in issues management enables her to serve as trusted counsel to CEOs and investors during times of crisis and unanticipated change. In addition to Devon, Jeanne chairs the HR Technology Conference Online and the Women in HR Tech Summit (held at the HR Tech Festival Asia in Singapore and the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas). A Top 100 HR Influencer, she studied organizational leadership at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

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