Laurel Egan Kenny, MSCM, MBA, founder, president and CEO of Turningpoint Communications, a treasury management industry-focused marketing communications and business development firm that promotes clients’ best practices and thought leadership and engages clients’ customers and centers of influence in dynamic and unexpected ways, announced today that Amy K. Smith has joined the firm as Executive Administrator.

In this role, Smith will work to ensure great customer service for Turningpoint Communications clients while building relationships as the firm grows. Most recently, Smith served as the Operations and Managing Director of the South Shore Young Professionals (SSYP), where she was responsible for recruitment, engagement and retention of SSYP members.

Smith has also volunteered for such organizations as the Kennedy Donovan Center, Neighbor-to-Neighbor, and the Governor Winslow Elementary School PTO. She also currently serves as the Volunteer Coordinator and Council President of the Leadership Team for Sanctuary Church in Marshfield.

A resident of Marshfield, Smith graduated from Regis College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.

“We are thrilled to welcome Amy to Turningpoint Communications,” said Egan Kenny. “Amy consistently demonstrates enthusiasm, efficiency, and excellent communications skills. She will enhance our firm’s ability to help our clients achieve the greatest outcomes from our services, and we are excited to have her join the staff.”

About Turningpoint Communications

Turningpoint Communications is a national marketing and business development support firm focused on financial services, high-tech, retail, academia, healthcare, and membership organizations. For more than 10 years, Turningpoint has offered industry-specific programming and deliverables that get results by promoting their clients’ thought leadership, best practices and engaging constituents in dynamic ways, and has worked with six of the 10 largest banks in the country.

Turningpoint Communications was founded by Laurel Egan Kenny, MSCM, MBA, in 2007 after 13 years of building and leading marketing and business development teams for two large, global Fortune 100 financial services firms in wealth and treasury management divisions. Laurel served on the Boards of Directors of the New England Association for Financial Professionals from 2007 to 2013 (including President) and continues to serve the Dallas Association for Financial Professionals as Communications Chair (2013 to present). She is also the Social Media Chair for the Alliance of Texas Treasury Association’s TEXPO 2018 Conference when it returns to Dallas and is an award winning and presenting Regional Officer of the national Association for Financial Professionals. Laurel built and grew the commercial Global Solutions Group’s marketing and business development servicing discipline at Sovereign Bancorp (now Santander) and, as a founding member of a corporate entrepreneurial wealth management division at State Street, she served as a member of a business development and relationship management team that grew assets under administration from $0 to $150 billion in two years. Laurel presents nationally on treasury management-related topics, as well as on marketing and business development practices, including social media and thought leadership.

For more information about Turningpoint Communications, please visit www.turningpointcommunications.com.