Our Team
Shirar O’Connor-Mugler
Shirar O’Connor-Mugler is The PONT Group’s economic development practice leader.
As one of three principals of the firm, Shirar specializes in interstate investment, foreign direct investment, and trade. She has twenty years of experience providing strategic integrated marketing communications and business development counsel to public and private sector organizations.
Shirar’s government-to-business experience includes positions as the US Marketing Director for UK Trade & Investment and Public Relations Manager for the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency.
Her business-to-business experience includes a position as the Americas Marketing Manager for Regus plc., and as European Manager of IDRC Europe (now known as CoreNet Global).
Shirar has also worked for Washington DC advertising agency, Abramson Associates as well as New York based public relations firms Spring, O’Brien and Ruder Finn, where she worked on economic development accounts.
