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Cooper Koch
President
Cooper Koch
President
Cooper Koch is the President of Multistory Media, the successful Dallas public relations firm he founded in 2002 as Cooper Smith Agency. Through his career, Cooper has provided media and community relations services to a number of high-profile companies and organizations.
Cooper has been recognized numerous times as a leader within Dallas-Fort Worth's business community, including D CEO's "Dallas 500" list of the most influential people in Dallas and Dallas Business Journal’s "Top 40 Under Forty."
Cooper is a proud alumnus of Southern Methodist University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in public relations and corporate communications. His unquenchable curiosity about the world around him led Cooper to also study German, Spanish and anthropology while at SMU.
An active member in the community, Cooper supports a number of non-profit organizations, including Prism Health North Texas, HelpUsAdopt.org, Human Rights Campaign and the SMU Alumni Association.
Cooper is also an ardent fan and supporter of the visual and performing arts, oftentimes offering his PR agency’s resources in support of local artists and performance groups.
Arden Hensarling
Managing Director
Arden Hensarling
Managing Director
Born and bred an East-coaster, Arden left the Big Apple for Dallas to be closer to her family, as well as football games at her alma mater Texas Christian University. Arden joined Multistory Media after working at Hundred Stories PR, a boutique public relations agency in New York City that specializes in real estate. At Hundred Stories PR, her clients included top developers, brokerage firms and fully integrated companies that own, operate and develop premier residential and commercial real estate. Specifically, Arden worked with Elad Group, the developer of The Plaza Hotel, Taconic Investment Partners, Stonehenge Partners and Houlihan Lawrence, to name a few.
Prior to joining HSPR, Arden worked in one of New York’s most prestigious financial and corporate communications firms, Joele Frank. During her time at Joele Frank, Arden assisted numerous fortune 500 companies with internal and external communications for crisis and special situations, including bankruptcy, proxy fights and mergers and acquisitions. Arden’s clients included Yahoo!, OfficeMax, Motorola Solutions, Barneys New York, Ralcorp, Martin Marietta, BMC Software and The Jones Group.
Arden graduated from TCU with a degree in Public Relations and a minor in Business.
Alli Williamson
PR Manager
Alli Williamson
PR Manager
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Our Clients In The News
The annual BUILDER Brand Use Study measures the attitudes of builders, developers, and contractors toward the products they recognize, use, and trust. The survey generated responses from 1,000 builders, builder-developers, and general contractors across the U.S. about brand use practices and perspectives for 60-plus building product categories. This year, several of Multistory Media’s clients were ranked in multiple categories, including: […]
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Key Insights for Building Materials Brands from Sprout Social’s Annual “Social Media Index”
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When beginning your career in the industry there are skills and traits to learn in order to become an effective leader. Members of the Business Leadership Trust share the skills that helped them become better leaders, including our Principal and Founder Cooper Koch. Read the full article here.
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