Tyler Rathjen

Senior Associate

Hailing from the Midwest, Tyler was going bananas in the cold. After all, you can only play Donkey Kong holed up in your parents' basement for so long. This Iowa native packed up his car in 2002 and swung down to warmer pastures in Phoenix, beginning his career in public relations and marketing. Of course it took him equally long to legally register said car in the state.

Earning a degree in zoology, errr wait...marketing, from Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, Tyler has been with David and Sam PR since the company's third month in business, starting in the studio's Training Program at its inception, before being promoted to full-time associate in 2006. Since then, Tyler has gotten the chance to work with a variety of wild beasts ranging from some of the Valley's top lawyers and bankers to an NFL Hall-of-Fame nominee. He is alleged to have also helped Bubbles with crisis communications after his Thriller dad's ninth (failed) nose job.

When not in the studio, you can find Tyler monkeying around on a golf course (just keep your head down) or caged up watching the Chicago Cubs or Nebraska Cornhuskers, in High Definition, of course. He is also a member of the American Marketing Association. Whatever that means?

tyler@davidandsampr.com