Cathy Ahles, APR, Fellow PRSA is Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at Premier Aircraft Sales.
Prior to joining Premier, Ahles was Chair and Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations at Florida International University in Miami. She is a nationally-recognized expert in integrated marketing communications and public relations.
Before joining FIU, she spent 28 years in the field of public relations. She was President Durocher Dixson Werba Public and Financial Relations in Detroit. She was also Vice President for College Relations at Macomb Community College in Michigan. During her time at MCC, a 30,000-student institution, she conducted three countywide ballot proposals which ultimately raised $90 million in public funds to establish the first community college-based “university center” in the nation. She was also Communications Program Manager for the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, a regional planning agency in Detroit. She worked as a print reporter early in her career.
Her work in public relations has been recognized with 30 national, regional and local awards, including two Silver Anvils. Ahles has been national secretary for the Public Relations Society of America and has been president of both the Detroit and Gulfstream (Fort Lauderdale) chapters of PRSA.
Ahles holds a private pilot’s license with single engine land and sea ratings. Early in her flying career, she enjoyed flying aerobatics in a Bellanca Decathalon. She has won four trophies in the Michigan SMALL Race, a performance rally that required completion of a 250-mile, three-legged course in a specified period of time using a specified amount of fuel under variable wind conditions.
She holds an MBA from the Eli Broad School of Management at Michigan State University and a BS in English Language and Literature from Eastern Michigan University.
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