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“Paksy is a high performance leader. She headed the European marketing division. An excellent liaison between field and corporate. From developing campaigns, managing staff and vendors, events, press, and online marketing, Paksy delivered excellent results on time and budget, again and again.”

“Openwave Systems recruited Paksy to implement marketing and communications functions from the ground up in a dozen countries. The company saw a surge in media coverage, in print and TV such as Bloomberg Television. She built successful relationships with our strategic alliances and customers resulting in additional sales and services.”

“I worked with Paksy for a number of years. She is reliable, professional, and competent. Paksy managed the partnership with Microsoft in Europe and worked closely with the different field offices. Customers, strategic partners and our companies benefited greatly from this European-wide roll-out and launch of new services. Paksy drives successful outcomes.”

“I have worked closely with Paksy in her tenure as President of the Board of the Santa Barbara Symphony, and Interim Executive Director of the organization. Ms. Plackis-Cheng’s managerial and organizational talents combined with her leadership and social skills turned her tenure as Interim ED with the Symphony to a very successful period. I trust every professional organization will benefit from her leadership and vision.”

“During Paksy’s tenure as Interim Executive Director for the Symphony, she exceeded the goals for the Annual Fund, secured the prestigious Irvine Foundation grant, and brought in 6 legacy gifts. Over the years, she was responsible for helping to raise millions for the organization. In short, Paksy is the full package — intelligent, capable, successful, a good communicator and possesses a winning personality. Any organization would do well to have her on their team, and better yet, leading the team.”

“Paksy Plackis-Cheng (DAG, LLC) advised the Founder and Executive Director of Look At Us, Inc. She has helped define the vision and structure of the organization, which is an early stage nonprofit. Given her broad strategic to operational experience, she is a highly valued adviser. I highly recommend her to fellow nonprofits.”

“I write this letter to express my deep appreciation to you for your help and direction in initiating and guiding the formation of a “Friends of the UCSB Materials Research Laboratory” community. With your help and direction, we have rapidly been able to see what we need to do going forward, to better communicate with interested lay persons in the Santa Barbara community, frontier UCSB research in the materials domain (exemplified by the recent Nobel in lighting technologies).
I would also like to express my appreciation for the time you have taken, and continue to take, to talk to our graduate students and to link them up with others in the community, including helping them explore entrepreneurial possibilities. We at the UCSB MRL hope that this will be a long and continued relationship.”

“I have had the privilege to work with Paksy, her sheer tenacity and ability to engage with the [Indian] communities was remarkable and the by-product was a globally acknowledged video on a critical issue of Women Empowerment. It was fun and a learning experience working with her.”