Peter D. Sauerbrey

{He was a speech writer for the presidents of ABC and USA TV Networks and chief publicist for ABC’s Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20 and Nightline. He also headed public relations for ABC’s, NBC’s and CNN’s presidential-election coverage. As a marketing/media consultant, he wrote corporate publications, presentations, PR materials and speeches for General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, IBM and AT&T.

Robert D. McCoy

Bob has been conducting technical, business, and email-writing seminars for Burger Associates since 1987 and is now our Senior Trainer. Before joining us he was a writer and consultant for the Mayor of Baltimore. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University.

Over the past seventeen years he has conducted Burger Writing Courses for scores of companies including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Among the clients Bob now handles are: BASF Corporation, DuPont, Fannie Mae, The Forum Corporation, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, SpectraSite Communications, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

He is also the managing editor for Pendle Hill Publications, where he heads their publishing, promotion, and production departments

Peter J. Restivo

Peter joined Burger Associates in 2003. He is a four-time Emmy Award winner for his work at ABC-TV. He founded and was Executive Producer of PM Magazine for Fox's New York flagship station. A Senior Producer of ABC-TV's Good Morning America, he was a 1986 Emmy Award nominee for best writing in a television special.

He writes extensively for free-lance clients including the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the International Film and Television Festival of New York, and several publications including New York Magazine, Communication World, Public Relations Journal, and TV Technology.

He is a long-time member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Forum for International Trade Training, the American Association of University Professors, Canadian Association of University Teachers, and the Society for Human Resources Management. He has taught at the New York Institute of Technology, Hofstra University, Marymount University, East Carolina University, Ryerson University (Toronto) and Augusta State (GA) where he was named Cree-Walker Distinguished Professor in Communications.