Julie Kahn, Partner
Julie is a big-time producer with a big network and a big heart.
She is known as a rainmaker, a game-changer and a high-profile, high-passion, and highly principled executive who is relentless about results and client service. For 30+ years, she has excelled in the worlds of professional sports, media planning and buying, and marketing consulting, management consulting, fundraising, community relations, and public relations. In addition to sports and broadcast media, Julie has represented numerous organizations in retail, B2B, and nonprofit sectors.
Julie has served as President of Media & Marketing and Executive Vice President/Sports Media at Regan Communications, one of the
Boston area’s most prominent public relations firms. Prior to Regan, she was Senior Vice President/New England of Entercom Boston, where she
oversaw seven stations, including WEEI and WAAF-FM. At Entercom, the stations she managed raised more than $25 million for the Jimmy Fund, the Greater Boston Food Bank, the Franciscan Hospital for Children, and many other charities. Before adopting Boston as her home, she also held
executive positions in radio in the Chicago and San Francisco markets.
Julie’s many industry accolades include:
One of the “50 Most Influential Women in Radio”
and “One of the Best Managers in Radio”—Radio Ink Magazine
One of the “100 People Who Run this Town”—Boston Magazine
One of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Boston”—Boston Magazine
Community Leadership Award—Franciscan Hospital for Children
Pinnacle Award—Boston Chamber of Commerce
A native of Detroit and a resident of Concord, MA, she has a BA of Arts in English Literature from the University of Michigan and a combined JD/MBA from Northwestern University. She also completed executive education programs at the Harvard Business School and MIT/Sloan School of Management.
Helyn Oatis, Partner
Helyn has vision and drive.
She has been recognized by direct reports, colleagues, and corporate management as a fair, respected leader-by-example with excellent communication and relationship-building talents. Helyn brings this skill set to K/O to foster client success. As an accomplished sales leader with a 30+ years record of success in Boston, Helyn is a change agent who can facilitate strategies to accomplish your goals.
As Vice President of Sales for the CBS television stations in Boston (WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV), Helyn was the first woman to run a CBS top-10 market television station duopoly. While at CBS, she developed and implemented marketing strategies to secure new, creative programming revenue opportunities, including NFL and Patriots programming, Boston Red Sox Baseball, Boston Marathon, Boston Pops and CBS Verticals. In response to a changing media landscape, Helyn expanded her expertise through digital marketing initiatives and developed digital sales strategy and goals. Helyn's prior experience also includes WBUR, Boston’s dominant NPR affiliate, where she represented their broadcast offerings to direct clients and agencies in Boston and across the country. While there, she developed expertise in podcasting sales, digital sales and multi-platform programs to brand clients.
A native of New York City and a resident of Boston, MA, she has a Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University.
