Our Team

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Based in New York City, Donley Communications was formed in 1974 by James W. Donley, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury where he served as press secretary for George Shultz and John Connally. The current Donley team includes:

President since 1980, Mr. Lamson joined the firm in 1976 after being a financial feature writer for The New York Times covering banking and the securities industries. He has authored op-ed pieces in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Lamson was formerly an associate editor of Forbes Magazine, an editor of the Washington Post, and news editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris. He helped found and was editor of MBA Magazine. He has degrees from Princeton and the Sorbonne and attended Columbia Business School.

A managing director and now consultant who joined the firm in 1990, Ms. Rzasa specializes in account management and media relations for financial, business-to-business, and professional services firms. Ms. Rzasa’s experience includes managing Donley’s relationships with Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Johnson Matthey (an international specialty metals firm), Value Line, The World Fuel Cell Council, Fuel Cell Today, and Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells. Before joining Donley, she was vice president at both Creamer Dickson Basford and Thomas L. Richmond Public Relations Agencies, where she managed communications programs for Drake Beam Morin, the nation's largest outplacement firm, The Platinum Guild International (USA) and other precious metal firms, and the American Express Platinum Card. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati.

A vice president, Ms. Ray-Jones joined the firm in 1999. She has worked with such clients as Milliman USA, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, Rila Bulgaria Investment Project, the Office of the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, Hanover College, and Alliance Capital Management. Prior to her joining Donley, she was an independent writer/producer whose clients included Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, ADP, Bozell Public Relations, the Australian Meat & Livestock Board, WNET/Ch.13 Public TV/NY, and the British Trade Office of New York. Ms. Ray-Jones received her B.A. degree in Fine Arts from the University of Kent, UK and her M.A. in Art History from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the author of “Journey of Ashes: a Boyhood in the Holocaust” and “Sustainable Architecture in Japan,” published by John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

A consultant who has been associated with the firm since 1996, he has extensive communications experience in both agency and corporate environments. Before becoming associated with Donley, Mr. Higgins operated his own consulting firm, while holding a senior position with a leading investor relations firm serving offshore companies and direct equity investors. From 1981 to 1992, he held national communications management positions with KPMG Peat Marwick, the global accounting and consulting firm, first as National Director of Public Relations and, subsequently, National Director of External Firmwide Communications. From 1972 to 1981, Mr. Higgins worked for the J. Walter Thompson Company and that agency’s Brouillard Communications Division, serving corporate and business-to-business clients. Mr. Higgins’ articles have appeared in The American Banker, Directors and Boards Magazine, and CFO Magazine, and he has addressed such national forums as The Conference Board and The American Society of Journalists and Authors. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.