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Tia Over is a Partner at The Mathews Group.

Tia has over 15 years of experience advising Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 clients, small businesses, non-profits and government agency on corporate communications strategy. Her expertise lies in strategic communications planning, internal communications and copy writing.

Tia launched her public relations career working for a political and public affairs shop consulting for state and federal political campaigns and trade associations in Oregon. Her next position was as a White House appointee at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she directed all internal communications for agency employees at each of the 10 NASA field centers. Tia was responsible for developing consistent messaging across the agency, managing incoming media requests for the assistant administrator and special projects such as the Return to Flight Space Shuttle Launch, the 35^th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and the premiere of the IMAX film Magnificent Desolation.

Eager to return to the Pacific Northwest, Tia joined the global public relations firm WE Communications (formerly Waggener Edstrom Worldwide). Tia led a Microsoft analyst relations team and served as a strategic relationship manager. She was responsible for building relations with leading industry analyst firms and helped facilitate product development consulting activities with Microsoft’s engineering, architecture, and marketing teams to enable competitive market positioning and delivery through the sales and partner channel.

Today, Tia leads The Mathews Group business development efforts and has helped grow the client roster to include Fortune 100 companies such as Honeywell, Lockheed Martin and Phillips 66. In addition, Tia leads the agency’s University of Washington Continuum College account. Internally, Tia leads efforts to ensure The Mathews Group team collaborates seamlessly around the globe.

Among her volunteer projects, Tia serves on the board of directors and coordinates The Mathews Group’s pro-bono communications and PR work on behalf of Ameena Project. The organization runs a preschool and early elementary school in a vulnerable community within Thika, Kenya, which she visited in 2016. Tia is a member of PRSA Counselors Academy and Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

As a thought leader, Tia has spoken at industry events including the SWE WE Local Portland conference, Women Who Code’s national CONNECT Conference, DevRel Summit, and PRSA Counselors Academy Conference.

Tia and her husband Andrew, their two children and pet Shiba live in Portland.

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