Meet Our Team

Antoinette F. Wilson is CEO and co-founder of Triumph Communications, Inc. Established in 1999, Triumph Communications, Inc. is a full-service strategic communications firm offering services in the areas of Public Affairs, Community Relations, Political Campaigns and Media Buying.

For over two decades, Wilson has represented numerous public and private sector clients, with an established record of accomplishment in community, government and public affairs.

In 2008, Wilson was appointed Assistant Secretary of State, serving as the first woman in Ohio to be appointed to this position.

Wilson has served as a general consultant/campaign manager for over 100 campaigns at the local, state and national levels. As the former director of Training and Talent for the Democratic National Committee in Washington DC and as development/political director of the Ohio Democratic Party, Wilson strategized and shaped efforts to foster, promote and develop hundreds of elected officials at the local, county and state levels.

Wilson currently serves on the boards of the Community Shelter Board-Co-Chair Women’s Leadership, John Glenn College of Public Affairs – POWER Commission, Ohio Sustainable Business Council, Somali Education Resource Center, and a member with the Matriots, American Sustainable Business Council and National Association of Women Business Owners. Wilson is a former chair for “She Should Run National Leader” – Womens Campaign Fund and a former board member for the American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, Hope Chest and the International Institute for Democracy. Wilson was a Women of Achievement Nominee for the Women’s Information Network and was named a “Rising Star” by Campaigns & Elections.

Brian Rothenberg is an Ohio native who is the Senior Communications professional with over 35 years of experience in strategic, planned and crisis communications. He is currently a Partner at Triumph Communications in Columbus, Ohio.

Prior to joining Triumph Communications Brian was a Senior Communications Advisor and Director of Public Relations for the UAW International Union. While at the UAW, Brian was the principal spokesperson and communications lead for the union with over one million active and retired members. He steered the union through crises including a DOJ investigation; the largest U.S. strike at General Motors in the last 40 years; three rounds of Detroit-3 bargaining, COVID response including the shutdown of plants and development and communication of safety protocols, Striketober and national media strategies.

Through exposure to some of the most heavily marketed manufacturing projects in the world at the UAW, Brian has worked to leverage cutting edge digital technology used by Fortune 100 companies and make them affordable and available to Triumph clients at all levels of advertising expenditures.

Equally experienced in media buying, Brian gives individual focus to each client maximizing budget and frequency by leveraging relationships and personal detail of available programming and rates to client  media plans and purchases. By working closely with available research, target messaging and audience, Brian can maximize exposure among broadcast, cable and digital media to get the most audience exposure for marketing budgets.

Ultimately all of these tools work collaboratively with his over 35 years of national, state and local messaging experience. At Triumph, Brian has directed buys for public sector, private sector and political campaign clients.

Experienced in digital to mass marketing, In 2006, Brian founded ProgressOhio, then the second of the national ProgressNow affiliates. In that capacity he grew PO membership to over 400,000 active members serving as a spokesperson for the progressive movement and labor including weekly TV debates and regular news coverage. PO became the largest state-based progressive membership group in the country.He also has worked as Press Secretary of the Mayor of Cleveland; Communications Director of the Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus; The Ohio Democratic Party and for numerous elected officials in the State of Ohio.

Brian has been featured as a regular contributor in local, state, national and global media as a communications expert on politics, the U.S. economy and workforce. and auto manufacturing. In addition he has been a regular contributor to Fortune 500 Wall Street briefings on the economy and auto manufacturing.

Jeff Ortega is a seasoned communications and engagement professional, with city and state government experience as well as experience on the corporate side.

Among other experience, Ortega served as Assistant Director and later Interim Director of Communications for the Columbus City Council from 2015 to 2018, working on and later overseeing all manner of communications. Ortega later served as Assistant Director of of the Columbus Department of Public Service (2016-2018) where he oversaw media relations, public involvement and relationships between the agency and the City Council.

Ortega also served as Assistant Director of the Columbus Department of Public Utilities, where he oversaw and managed the environmental protection plan for the city and worked with the Mayor’s Office on city messaging related to sustainability.

Ortega has also served as the top press spokesperson for the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office and was an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor.

Mac McIntosh is a Columbus native who has national experience in managing social media strategies. With eight years of experience in national creative advertising Mac is proficient in managing content creation, social creative direction and integrated campaign management.

As a senior level Social and PR manager, Mac led social campaigns for brands like Champion, Porsche, and SodaStream, blending creative storytelling with analytic-driven strategies to boost brand visibility and community engagement. Mac has expertise in social creative direction and establishing strategies to enhance social media performance and presence across media channels.

Mac has demonstrated skills including tracking deliverables and creating compelling social content, copywriting and short-form video. Mac is also experienced in influencer management and cadence of content across multiple platforms.

A graduate of Columbia College of Chicago, Mac received a B.A. in Public Relations, Social Media and Digital Strategies.

George Korn, Ph.D., has extensive experience in strategic communication, campaigns, event staging, and is an award-winning media producer/director/writer. He has worked with nonprofits, corporate clients, and political figures, including approximately 20 years with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. George is also an emeritus faculty member and former director of the School of Media Arts and Studies in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University.

With a broad background encompassing both communication consulting and media production, George is experienced in all aspects of video and film production, and “on-air” work, primarily for radio. Projects he worked on have received awards from organizations including the New York Film Festival, International Television Association, and Association of Visual Communicators. He is experienced in strategic communication, campaign design and execution, media relations, event production, and working with designers to create comprehensive messaging packages across media. He also has international experience working on projects in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.

George’s work with Rev. Jesse Jackson spans many years and a number of roles including strategy development; research and writing; producing “Upfront with Jesse Jackson”, his TV talk show on the WORD Network; serving as communications director; and producing rallies, concerts, and marches with major entertainers, union officials, religious leaders, and political figures.

As a faculty fellow with the Executive Leadership Institute in the George Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University, George has presented sessions on strategic communication and media relations to NGO and government personnel and for community action agencies.

A particularly significant project was his work with a client to save the Lifeline cellphone program that helps low-income individuals afford cellphone service. Much of his recent work has been for community action agencies in the high-poverty Appalachian Ohio region and he currently serves as a Progress Ohio board member.

George did his graduate work at Southern Illinois University and studied for a year at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago.

Calvin Teich is responsible for database maintenance including assisting in marketing, fundraising and voter file administration. In his capacity Calvin does extensive work in client/donor relations, event building, research, and communications outreach.

Teich has been a legislative intern in the Ohio House of Representatives; a finance intern on a statewide campaign; and a public affairs intern for a statewide government affairs/public advocacy organization. He also brings extensive lobbying experience and relationship building with elected officials at all levels of government, having been political director for a prominent bi partisan student organization at Ohio State.

Calvin lives in Granville and attended The Ohio State University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Political Science.