A published author and Pulitzer Prize nominee, Michael Robinson is a public relations consultant with a strong track record in getting positive media placements in the nation's top-tier publications. He has placed articles in the nation's leading financial publications and major metropolitan newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, Fortune, Business 2.0, Crain's Investment News, USA Today, and Red Herring to name a few.

As a reporter for the Oakland Tribune, he won a reporting award for a ground-breaking series on a controversial new drug by Chiron Corp. Robinson also reported for the Detroit News, where he covered the auto industry, nuclear power, the UAW and the governor's office. He won awards for an investigative series on the state's embattled worker's compensation system.

While at the San Francisco Examiner he was profiled in Columbia Journalism Review for his aggressive reporting, and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. At the Kansas City Times he served as bureau chief covering half the state of Missouri , and at American Banker newspaper, he covered Bank of America's brush with bankruptcy and the Latin debt crisis.

He is the author of the book "Overdrawn, the Bailout of American Savings," a critically acclaimed account of the nation's S&L crisis. As a free-lance writer, he regularly profiles major defense technology companies for Signal Magazine and also writes widely for Faircount, a Florida-based company that produces a wide range of commemorative books. The Faircount publications cover Steinway & Sons, the Julliard School, the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce, Education, and Health and Human Services, among others.

 His other writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Real Estate Investor and American Enterprise Magazine, where he profiled Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and Federal Express CEO Fred Smith. An accomplished musician and songwriter, Robinson has received international acclaim with profiles of his work appearing in Japan and Israel as well as in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times; he also appeared on Larry King's syndicated radio show.

Robinson has an honors economics degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia where he served as a teaching assistant for money and banking and wrote his thesis under the guidance of a senior official of the Federal Reserve. He lives in Oakland, Calif. , with his wife Tracy, who has an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of California and who is a local government leader. They have two daughters.