Reviews & Profile for HKA Marketing & PR

Headquartered in Southern California with a satellite office in San Francisco, HKA Marketing Communications is an award-winning agency which has garnered a reputation for excellence from clients, vendor partners and the media. 

HKA provides its clients with the best of both worlds: the experience and collaborative resources of a larger PR agency with the value pricing, customization and superb attention of smaller firms. The agency maintains a diverse client mix so it can transfer successful strategies from one industry and apply them in refreshing and innovative ways to new industries. Underlying all its activities is HKA’s desire to provide clients with the highest possible level of professionalism and integrity.

Founded by former journalist Hilary Kaye, and managed today by Kaye and marketing communications veteran Kevin Twer, HKA instills professionalism and integrity into every campaign, project and client relationship, successfully enabling agency partners to leverage marketing and communications strategies to support critical business objectives. HKA’s menu of client services includes media relations, social media, digital marketing, reputation management and community relations.

HKA represents clients from a diverse array of industries, including technology with specialties in quantum computing and digital transformation, biomedical, nonprofit, law, accounting, finance, real estate, healthcare, recruiting, food and beverage, and more.

With an impressive legacy in the space, tech communications veteran Mike Kilroy oversees HKA's technology PR practice to serve innovative startups in California and throughout the world.  HKA is proud to be one of the first PR firms dedicated to promoting organizations involved in quantum technologies, including quantum computing, quantum sensing and quantum information science.

Quantum technology researchers both in the U.S. and abroad are seeking venture capital funding to commercialize their innovations.  Many are bringing their operations to Southern California – where HKA is centrally located – with its leading universities, companies and engineering talent dedicated to furthering the quantum computing industry.

HKA understands that effective PR and marketing communications is invaluable in helping quantum computing startups find their place in the quantum ecosystem, ensuring they are heard above the market noise to secure the right customers, partners, influencers and investors necessary to compete and win.

HKA is an award-winning agency that has garnered countless honors from a variety of industry associations. HKA is respected for its work – by its media contacts, PR colleagues, clients, and business leaders. Through the years, the agency has received numerous recognitions for its business ethics and community philanthropy as well as dozens of awards for its client work.