Elizabeth Boineau
Founder / Owner
Elizabeth L. Boineau, founder and owner of E. Boineau & Company, based in Charleston, S.C., is a 40-year veteran of the marketing communications and public relations industry. She offers extensive senior management experience in the marketing communications field, with an emphasis on public relations, media strategy and crisis communications for professional service firms, tourism/hospitality and destination entities. Clients include companies, cities, towns, chambers of commerce and non-profits.
In the mid-90s, the firm managed national, state and local media for the opening of McCrady’s and later, for the launch of SNOB (Slightly North of Broad). She handled ongoing PR for Anson’s until she left for Los Angeles in 1996, then Circa 1886 and Wentworth Mansion upon her return in 2002. She reopened then as a virtual firm, now with a team of four. The agency primarily handles professional service firms and travel/ tourism/ hospitality. They had a long-term engagement with City of Walterboro (crisis communications, rebranding, media training, media relations, national media outreach, marketing strategy) and had an eight-year partnership with Edisto Chamber (rebranding, messaging, media relations, national media outreach). They also developed Town of Edisto Beach media materials, web content, and an online newsroom. They were hired to create widespread awareness of the launch of public tours for Center for Birds of Prey, garnering AP interest and cover stories that gave rise to a new chapter in the life of this renowned non-profit. They have worked for Frampton Construction for close to a decade and more recently are about to have their two-year anniversary for the International African American Museum, managing media relations, local to global, garnering impressions in the billions for their opening June, 2023.
Before re-establishing E. Boineau & Company in Charleston, Elizabeth served in senior management positions (1996-2002) with the three largest communications firms in the world – Omnicom for Fleishman Hillard in Atlanta, Interpublic Group for Weber/Shandwick in Atlanta and Miami, and WPP for Hill & Knowlton in Los Angeles. In these roles, she offered strategic communications planning, insight and counsel to develop and build the brand identity, awareness and reputation of leading companies and organizations.
Before forming her firm in Charleston in 1990, Elizabeth was director of public relations for the Charleston County School District. Prior to that, she was the marketing officer for C&S Bank (Bank of America) for the Charleston (S.C.) Trident area.
Over the years, Elizabeth has served in leadership positions on many boards and committees and has been recognized for excellence by industry peers. She was awarded the American Advertising Federation’s Annual Silver Medal Award in February 2010 for industry leadership and community involvement. For many years, she authored a monthly marketing column for the Charleston Regional Business Journal.
She is past president of the Advertising Federation of Charleston, and Charleston Stage Company. She previously served as a trustee member of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and as board member of Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce. She served for several years on the board of the BB&T Wine & Food Festival, and on the Middleton Property Owners Association board, and on the marketing advisory committee of the Coastal Community Foundation on the board of the Lowcountry Autism Foundation and as a volunteer for Edisto Island Open Land Trust. She has served several years on the Medical University of SC Neurosciences and Neurology Advisory board. Elizabeth graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
In her free time, she likes to garden and take long walks with her English Springer Spaniel Christmas birthday baby, Zara. She enjoys renovating and now and again building new homes, the next of which will be complete in late 2023.
