TULSA, Okla. – Saxum, an integrated communications firm offering public relations, marketing, creative and social media services, recently announced the hiring of Ashley Fuller as account supervisor and Marisa Brown as designer in the firm’s Tulsa office.

In her new role, Fuller will be responsible for developing and managing strategic communications plans for Saxum clients. Her previous experience includes serving as development director of Monte Cassino School, where she managed the school’s renovation campaign and annual fundraising drives. She was also the community relations and development director for Domestic Violence Intervention Services and handled all media relations and event coordination for 11 area locations. In prior public relations consulting roles, she has provided strategic counsel for clients in corporate, healthcare, arts and humanities and nonprofit sectors.

An avid community servant, Fuller also has provided strategic volunteer leadership in numerous fundraising areas, including major gift cultivation, capital campaign management and grant writing. Fuller served as a member of the board of trustees and the Institutional Advancement Committee for St. Gabriel’s Catholic School in Austin, Texas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations from the University of Texas at Austin.

As a designer, Brown focuses on designing high-quality creative materials to support branding and promotional strategies for Saxum clients. She previously served as an intern in Saxum’s Tulsa office and as art department intern at Lincoln Christian School in Tulsa. Brown attended Oklahoma State University, where she earned a bachelor’s of fine arts in graphic design.

Saxum has quickly become one of the fastest-growing integrated communications firms in the region, with offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Posting double-digit annual growth from more than 10 to nearly 70 percent each year since its inception in 2003, the firm has been ranked the past two years in the list of the top 100 independent public relations firms in the U.S. by O’Dwyer’s PR Services Report. Saxum was also named to the 2011 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

The agency has been named to the Metro 50 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Oklahoma City metro area for the past five years and is a member of IPREX, one of the world’s largest public relations networks. Saxum serves clients in Oklahoma and across the country.

Ashley Fuller               

Marisa Brown