Joe Paluska leads Hill & Knowlton’s Worldwide Technology Practice and also serves on the firm’s Worldwide Executive Committee. He regularly advises the world’s leading technology companies including BrightSource Energy, eBay, Cisco, Deloitte, HP, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, PayPal, Project Better Place, Symantec, THX, VantagePoint Venture Partners, VeriSign, and Yahoo! on matters of corporate reputation, technology strategy communications and global competitiveness.

As head of Hill & Knowlton’s Clean Tech team, he led the firm’s inaugural research on “Return on Environment,” which defines an emerging c-suite role for managing a company’s commitment to the environment and measuring the return on investment of the so-called triple bottom line of people, profits and planet.

He started his career in Washington, DC, as a business journalist for a Dow Jones newswire and trade journalist for a telecom newsletter, and later moved on to the business side of MCI. He made the jump to the Bay area in 2000 where he now lives with his wife and their two children.