Leslie Fitzsimmons
Local Sales Manager
Clear Channel

Leslie Fitzsimmons is the Local Sales Manager Clear Channel's WASH-FM, located in Rockville, Maryland.

Prior to joining WASH-FM, she served as the National Sales Manager and General Sales Manager of WSMJ-FM in Baltimore.

In the past, Fitzsimmons has served in a variety of management positions including: Director of Sales and General Manager of KFAT/KQEZ/FRPM/KBZZ in Anchorage, Alaska, General Sales Manager of KDND in Sacramento, California, and General Sales Manager at KTTB and KWWL in Minneapolis, MN.

She began her career in the early 90's as an Account Executive at McGavren Guild and went on to become Vice President of Sales. In 1991, she oversaw the Los Angeles-based office for Schubert Radio Sales until the company closed. Fitzsimmons went on to become Vice Present & Regional Manager for Torbet Radio in Los Angeles.

She and her husband have two daughters and a chow named Achilles.

Lori Hall
Creative Marketing Director
Radio One Atlanta

Lori Hall was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and Atlanta, GA. She attended college at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in Communications. During her four-year tenure at Fisk, she completed numerous internships in public relations, radio and television. Immediately after graduating in 1994, she moved to Atlanta and worked at the Atlanta Journal & Constitution in Retail Advertising. In 1995, Lori was accepted to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunications at Arizona State University. It was there where she studied Broadcast Journalism, Public Relations and worked in the Promotions Department for a local radio station. In 1999, Lori completed her thesis on the “Portrayal of African American Women In Advertising” and graduated with a Masters in Mass Communication.

Lori continued her career in radio as the Assistant Director of Promotions and Marketing for WVEE/WAOK radios. After four successful years, Lori was named Promotions Director for WMBX (X-102.3) and WJBW (B-106.3) in West Palm Beach, Florida. Still climbing the ladder of promotions, Lori moved further South to Miami where she worked as Promotions Director of WMIB (103.5 The Beat). During her tenure there, she was nominated by Radio and Records Magazine as a Promotions and Marketing Director of the year. Currently, Lori is the Creative Marketing Director of Radio One Atlanta. In this role, she is responsible for the overall marketing of the Radio One Atlanta stations. Outside of work, Lori keeps herself busy in various organizations including, The National Association of Black Journalists, a mentor for “Its Cool to Be Smart” and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She also had a TV debut on HGTV’s “My First Place” where the search for her first home was captured on TV and aired numerous times on the network.

Lori has a positive outlook on life and stays true to her motto which is “Life is too short, so live each day to the fullest.”

Jennifer Quiroz grew up in radio, attending radio promotions since she was a toddler and manning request lines since she was 13 years old. Her first official position in radio was as a promotion, programming and sales intern at KIIS-FM at the age of 16. Two years later, she moved to intern for then Clear Channel owned Channel 103.1 fm. The next year, she became the promotions intern at the Hollywood Bowl, working with radio stations to help promote the Bowl’s eclectic summer line-up.

In 2000 while attending college, Quiroz was hired as at the promotions manager for the Stanford Concert Network, where she worked with local radio stations and music venues to create SCN’s Bay Area Concert Calendar. In 2001, she was promoted to director of SCN, where she booked such acts as Jack Johnson, The Slip, and Phil Lesh & Friends. During that time, she organized the largest student-run concert in the last two decades attracting nearly 7,000 attendees.

Upon graduation, Quiroz worked as national promotions manager for Entertainment Marketing Group, booking national radio promotions on stations across the country and securing third-party prizing partners for such promotions. She then left the industry for a brief time, but after a year and a half at a film studio, she realized just how much she missed the music industry and eagerly returned.

Quiroz now serves as the Marketing Manager at Premiere Radio Networks, the number one radio network in the country which syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 4,600 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere Radio is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications.

Quiroz also serves on the Board of Directors of the Stanford Alumni in Entertainment group. She graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in English and studied at Stanford’s famed Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCMA). Quiroz currently resides in Santa Monica, Calif., where she enjoys singing, songwriting, writing poetry and painting in her spare time.