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Cunningham Communication, Inc. was a prominent public relations firm in Silicon Valley in the 1980s and 1990s that had many well-known clients in high-tech, [1] [2] including Adobe, Cisco, Motorola, PeopleSoft, Hewlett-Packard, and the IBM Consumer Division. [3] It was founded by Andy Cunningham in 1985, after she left Regis McKenna.

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Cunningham Communication developed the Momentum Management methodology [4] that was documented in the book Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces by John Volkmann and Ron Ricci. [5]

In 1999, Cunningham Communication was reorganized into five subsidiaries with their own separate brands - Cunningham Public Relations, the Brand Momentum Group, the Momentum Research Group, Cunningham Ventures, and Fifth Gear. [6] The firm was acquired in 2000 by Incepta and renamed Citigate Cunningham. [7] After the dot-com bubble burst, the five companies were brought back together under the Citigate Cunningham brand. [8] Andrea Cunningham stepped down from her position as CEO in 2003 to form CXO Communication. [9] [10]

Incepta merged with Huntsworth in 2005. In 2009, Huntsworth, merged Citigate Cunningham with Connecting Point Communications. [11] The remnants of the firm are now part of Grayling Communications.

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Notable alumni

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