Randy Mitchelson, Neighbor

Randy Mitchelson, APR is an award winning entrepreneur, author and community leader with more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and financial services.

He has served in leadership roles for Fortune 500 firms as well as several start-ups.

Mitchelson has earned accreditation in public relations (APR). Randy’s digital marketing insights are published by Website Magazine, Search Engine Journal, American Express and many others.

He helps small and medium sized businesses drive new customer acquisition and build stronger relationships with stakeholders through digital marketing and web technology, public relations and analysis of data that it generates.

Mitchelson is vice president of sales, marketing and public relations at M&M Multimedia, an agency specializing in video and website production, digital marketing, e-learning and mobile application development.

Prior, Mitchelson was vice president with iPartnerMedia, a digital marketing and print agency. iPM was named start-up business of the year in 2017 by Lee County Economic Development and Horizon Council.

Prior to iPM, Randy founded National Web Leads which generated millions of leads for advertisers in a variety of industries using email, pay-per-click and display marketing campaigns. National Web Leads merged with Reach Media Group in 2012 where he served as Chief Marketing Officer.

Mitchelson has served in national and regional sales and operations leadership roles with Bank of America, KeyBank and CIBC’s Marketplace Bank.

As a licensed mortgage professional and personal finance and credit expert, Mitchelson published more than 1,200 articles to educate people both in-person and online via the DailyDollar™ personal finance channel. DailyDollar was named by U.S. News and World Report to its list of 8 Savvy Personal Financial Podcasts. His writings and expertise about personal finance have been featured on Fox Business, CBS Moneywatch, WebMasterRadio, CMO.com, Trulia.com and more.

Randy is a multiple Golden Image award winner from the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA). He was named 2016 member of the year by the Southwest Florida Chapter of FPRA. While president of the Southwest Florida Chapter in 2019-2020, the chapter was named Chapter of the Year.

He also received the 2010 Partnership Award from the SWFL Regional Technology Partnership.

Mitchelson's community leadership includes:

-co-founder, Southwest Florida Regional Technology Partnership Inc.

-founder, Larry Mitchelson Scholarship Foundation, Inc. (Estero, FL)

-board member at Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce

-past president, Southwest Chapter of Florida Public Relations Association

-social media chair, SWFL Chapter Florida Association of Mortgage Professionals

-past president, Seminole County Board for Boys and Girls Clubs (Orlando, FL)

-co-founder, Michelle's Angels Foundation (Lake Mary, FL)

-co-founder and former vice president of STEM, Inc. (Troy, NY)

-co-founder and past president Marketplace Bank Foundation, Inc. (Maitland, FL)

Mitchelson earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.