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Meet Karl Kachigan

Karl Kachigan, president of Ammondson Communications, has been an active participant since Pam created this business. He has been working in the high-tech industry for over 45 years in Marketing and R&D. He has managed marketing teams responsible for supporting products, developing application and promotional material, and introducing new products. He has created and given several customer seminars, written technical articles and literature, and supported a wide range of products.

Karl is presently coordinating the new hire technical training at Keysight Technologies. He enjoys teaching and helping others learn new things. He led a marketing effort that coordinated multiple teams to provide a company-wide promotional effort for High-Speed Digital design and test. It involved creating application literature, web casts, trade shows and internal technical sales training.

Karl has worked for Hewlett-Packard Company, Agilent Technologies and more recently Keysight Technologies. He was part of an HP team that developed a High-Speed Digital technical symposium that eventually became the DesignCon Trade Show, the industry's leading technical conference focusing on the challenges of designing and testing high-speed digital products and solutions.

Karl has the unique experience of being in a Dr. Seuss book called I was Kissed by a Seat at the Zoo, by Helen Palmer. It is unique in being a story of children experiencing animals at the San Diego Zoo through photographs, not cartoons. That's a young Karl with the Bears and Penguins!

He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He loves to hike, swim, ice skate, play ice hockey, cross country ski and become a better cook in the kitchen.

Meet Pamela Ammondson

Pamela Ammondson created Ammondson Communications to help others achieve their goals. She was active in business and marketing communications for more than twenty years. She was a popular speaker, life coach and author specializing in new beginnings. She has helped corporate executives, small business owners, professionals and life changers to clarify what they really want and take control of their lives with a new sense of purpose and vision. She was dedicated to helping people rediscover their amazing gifts, rekindle their passions and joy and offer their gifts to the world. Pamela was a certified Core Strengths Coach, specializing in strengths-based positive psychology.

Ms. Ammondson spent several years researching burnout, its causes and antidotes and is a frequent media guest. She conducted workshops for people at all job levels and compiled her findings into the practical book Clarity Quest: How to Take a Sabbatical Without Taking More Than a Week Off (Simon and Schuster, 1999). Her work has been featured in Time magazine, Psychology Today, The Los Angeles Times, Working Mother, Fitness, Escape, National Public Radio, The San Francisco Chronicle, NBC Nightly News and the Business News Network.

She served in professional and community organizations as Co-Chairman of the San Francisco Symphony 500, Board Member of the San Francisco Professionals and the Arts, PR Consultant for the American Red Cross, Board Member of the Weld County Council on Aging, Team Leader for the Santa Rosa Holiday Food Project and member of the Alumnae Resources Career Advisor Network and National Speakers Association.

Pamela was awarded the Golden Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators and is listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women and Nationwide Register's Who's Who.

She held a variety of public relations and corporate communications positions -- editor of Metro Denver, PR Manager for Mountain Bell and Pacific Bell, Communications Consultant and Senior Producer for the Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Web Version: May 14, 2023