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Andy Cutler

About: I am the founding partner at Cutler & Company, a Providence-based communications firm assisting companies convey their innovative platforms to targeted audiences. We are pioneering the art of collaborative communications, and have a team of respected experts in brand identity/rebranding, graphic and industrial design, writing/editing services, consumer goods, public relations, media relations, community building, speech writing, event planning, public speaking coaching, and multimedia production to support the needs of our clients.

We have worked with such clients as the Advanced Image Enhancement, Afferent Corporation, Andera, Bioprocess Technologies, Business Innovation Factory, Global Alliance to Immunize against AIDS, Concordia Fibers, Design Awareness, ecolect, EpiVAX, RINexus.com, the Business Innovation Factory, NABsys, Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, Rhode Island Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC), Rhode Island School of Design, Slater Technology Fund, and Tizra.

I am founding member of E3 (Entrepreneurs Enabling Entrepreneurs) aiming to assist the next generation of Rhode Island's entrepreneurs. I also serve on the Board of Volunteers in Providence Schools.

Our space at the Plant (see http://www.theplantprovidence.com/) is intended to be a host site for co-working opportunities with innovators from RI and beyond. We are co-located with eddinsdesign, a graphic design firm specializing in communications projects involving identity-print-packaging-signage-web elements; Design Awareness, a strategic industrial design firm creating innovative solutions to product and interior design challenges; and ecolect, which is creating the largest, freely accessible sustainable materials library in the world.

Title Partner
Organization Cutler & Company
What are five keys to innovation? Collaboration, clarity in communicating message (internally and externally), trust, implementation and willingness to fail!
What are the keys to collaboration across traditional boundaries? Trust--seeing needs of others before yours and helping other innovative leaders achieve their goals.
What talents or resources do you bring to this community? Community...connected to collaborative leaders in all elements of communications and design, and cutting-edge clients. All-star rolodex throughout the U.S. and willingness to help you make new connections.
Dream partnerships: Which people, organizations, or industry sectors would you or your organization most want to partner with? Desire to build collaborative partnerships with institutions in Scandinavia, more academic institutions with an eye towards innovation, companies interested in the green/sustainable movement, and organizations (be they public or private) as well as individuals and institutions who genuinely embrace collaboration. "Cool people with cool stories" is the environment we call home!


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Comments

Susan Rivers:

Hi Andy, Looking forward to seeing you soon. And congrats to you, Melissa, Tori and everybody at BIF and RIEDC who worked so hard to make this "happening" happen!

Erica Driver:

Hi Andy -- I just learned tonight that you are friends w/ my sister-in-law Jane. I look forward to meeting you.