Nicole Maffeo Russo is one of the leading restaurant and hotel publicists in New England.  With more than 25 years’ experience in the PR, special events, and hospitality industries, she has helped publicize some of the region’s most successful hotels, events, restaurants and chefs and has brought them into the national spotlight. She started her own company, Nicole Russo Communications, Inc., in 2014.  

Over the course of her career, Nicole has managed more than twenty notable hotels, restaurants and brands, including: Himmel Hospitality Group, Puritan & Co., Chef Jason Santos, Encore Boston Harbor, Liberty Hotel, and the Lyons Group. She has assisted in coordinating more than three dozen large-scale events from Red Bull Cliff Diving to restaurant openings to James Beard Dinners for her clients over the past two decades. 

In 1999, Nicole was able to build her hospitality and luxury brand PR experience during a two-year stint in Las Vegas where she worked with many of the city’s most notable brands including MGM Mirage, Studio 54, and Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants. 

Prior to her PR career, Nicole started out in politics where she was a White House intern in the Social Office under President Clinton and then a Legislative Correspondent for U.S. Representative John F. Tierney on Capitol Hill. 

Nicole is a graduate of Lynchburg College in Virginia and currently resides in Boston, MA with her husband and two daughters.