About us
PortlandPicksForMen.com is a free, subscription-driven online publication sent out every Friday via email. It’s an informative and entertaining dialogue of City Secrets about shopping, dining, drinking and hanging out in Stumptown, delivered in a unique manner to a highly targeted market. PPFM reaches men 25-45 who are educated, have a medium to high income, and enjoy enhancing the quality of their lives by making the most of what the city has to offer.
Portland Picks for Men's founder, Kathi O'Neil, started her career in Manhattan with Hearst Magazines and The Hearst Corporation.  A native Oregonian, O'Neil and her husband returned to Portland in the early 90s.  There O'Neil started Westover Media, a full-service marketing firm whose partial list of clients includes: Elle, In Style, Lucky, Tom's of Maine, Oprah, Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, W and Health, to name a few. She also started City Picks Group, which publishes "Picks" in several major markets.
Editor in Chief Alisa Sloan directs City Picks Group's content and managing editors, and heads the flagship Portland Picks publication. Based in Portland, she has been with Westover Media since June of 2005 and brings more than 12 years of experience in publishing, marketing and content management to the team.
Portland Picks for Men (PPFM) contains mostly the unsolicited opinions of the PPFM staff. They are hints, recommendations, and local secrets about restaurants, hangouts, shops, products, and services.  We sometimes include paid placements which are noted with a "sponsored" banner. Hip Happenings and Events of the Week are always paid placements. PPFM's parent company, City Picks Group , is a subsidiary of Westover Media, LLC.
Visit our sister publications at www.PortlandPicks.com, www.SeattlePicks.com, www.MinneapolisPicks.com www.ChicagoPicks.com and www.PhoenixPicks.com, or visit our new bro at www.SeattlePicksforMen.com.
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| Kathi O’Neil Publisher |
Alisa Sloan Editor in Chief |
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| Michael O'Connor Contributing Writer |
Jeremy Lloyd Contributing Writer |
Gabe Preston Contributing Writer |
Adam Joseph Kivisaari Contributing Writer |
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