Our Team
Joanne Jordan
Co-Founder
Joanne Jordan has 12 years of diversified public relations experience in the corporate, agency and non-profit arenas. Her background includes employment at Boys and Girls Clubs of America, M Booth Associates, Ruder Finn and Jericho Communications. She has a firm knowledge and grasp of all aspects of the hospitality and consumer industry and how they pertain to media, crisis management situations, branding, marketing menu development, and case studies on a local, regional and national level.
Her past and current clients include Jeffrey Beers International, PumpPod Personal Training Products, The Chair Factory, Restaurant Associates, Cape Cod Potato Chips, Ricoh, IBM, Kitchenaid’s The Book and The Cook and multiple New York City-based restaurants.
Prior to co-founding, Food Shelter she was the Public Relations Director at Restaurant Associates (RA), a Compass Group subsidiary company, where she was responsible for all external day to day publicity, marketing and event activities for the hospitality company as well as all internal corporate and investor communications with RA’s parent company.
A graduate of Pace University with a degree in marketing communications, she is a member of Les Dammes Escoffier and the International Alliance of Culinary Professionals. She also holds a blue ribbon Culinary Degree from the Institute of Culinary Education and has worked with Chefs in New Orleans, Boston and New York.
Lorraine Gimblett
Co-Founder
Lorraine Gimblett has over 10 years of experience in public relations, event management and message development. Her expertise in media relations for national, regional, consumer, business and trade press is an invaluable tool to her clients.
As the Marketing Director for Keeper Springs, a bottled water company founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to help raise funding for environmental organizations, Lorraine developed and executed strategic public relations and marketing campaigns to increase brand awareness among consumers, food industry and environmental communities. She created co-branded environmental kids clubs for strategic retail partners like Whole Foods, Stew Leonards, Kings and Wegman’s, which involved the local community organizations and in-store educational events. Lorraine has a thorough understanding of the gourmet retail industry, experience working with distributors and expertise in community marketing efforts.
Prior to co-founding Food-Shelter, Lorraine was a public relations executive at Great Ink Communications, where she specialized in real estate and design publicity. She has represented almost every facet of the real estate industry including property owners, developers, investment firms and opportunity funds.
Past and present clients include Michael Graves & Associates, Fox & Fowle Architects, Ultimate Juice, Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink, Fresh Samantha and Jeffrey Beers International.
Lorraine earned a MA in Political Management from George Washington University and a BA from Roanoke College. She began her career in political campaigns for former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, Congressman Frank Pallone as well as several local initiatives and municipal elections.
Jonathan Hudson
Creative Director
With more than 20 years of design experience, Hudson is responsible for providing the creative direction, resources and creative products for Food Shelter through progressive thinking, research, development and execution. He is skilled in matching strategic direction with appropriate design results for integrated branding and marketing initiatives. An original thinker who conceives creative concepts and translates them into a visual format, Hudson has an attention to detail, combined with a strong working knowledge of design which enables Food Shelter to offer our clients full service creative solutions.
Michael Boghosian
Comptroller
As comptroller, Michael Boghosian’s main objective is to strengthen Food Shelter through financial management and is responsible for all aspects of the company's operations in regard to how capital will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. In his role, he uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to fiscal challenges as well as considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. Another quality he brings to the Food Shelter family is his ability to identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct that performance, relative to the goals of the business infrastructure.