{"id":2,"date":"2013-10-25T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-07-14T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:41:00","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islay Communications (EYE-la)<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/span>is a New York-based communications technology company and consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>Islay Communications is the developer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communicationsmatch.com\">CommunicationsMatch.com<\/a>, a communications agency search engine that connects companies with communications professionals. \u00a0The company also developed a community engagement-driven technology platform, YourTownhub.com. \u00a0The platform has been adopted by towns in the Hudson Valley including Greenport and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallatin-ny.org\">Gallatin<\/a>, NY). A customized version of the platform was also used by the Retirement Income Industry Association\u00ae (RIIA\u00ae).<\/p>\n<p>Islay Communications is a strategic advisor to clients in the financial services industry on communications and marketing strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Islay Communications was founded in 2013 by Simon Erskine Locke, a communications leader, communications technology expert and entrepreneur. Locke spent summers on his father\u2019s farm on Scotland\u2019s Isle of Islay, before embarking on a 25-year communications career at\u00a0investment banks and the insurance\/asset management industry.<\/p>\n<p>Locke was formerly head of U.S. Businesses and International Communications at Prudential Financial.\u00a0 At Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, he was head of Corporate Communications, Japan, where he developed the company&#8217;s Intranet platform, which was adopted around the world. At Deutsche Bank, he was based in New York before being appointed head of communications for Asia Pacific and Japan. \u00a0At Deutsche Bank he developed an intranet platform for delivering news around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Islay-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Islay-Logo-300x240.png\" alt=\"Islay Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Islay-Logo-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Islay-Logo.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Islay-Communications-Logo-GeneralSmallBox.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islay Communications (EYE-la)\u00a0is a New York-based communications technology company and consultancy. Islay Communications is the developer of CommunicationsMatch.com, a communications agency search engine that connects companies with communications professionals. \u00a0The company also developed a community engagement-driven technology platform, YourTownhub.com. \u00a0The platform has been adopted by towns in the Hudson Valley including Greenport and Gallatin, NY). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islaycommunications.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}