Len Gutman is president and founder of Open Door Communications, a full-service public relations and communications company based in Phoenix, Ariz.

Open Door Communications was founded in 2000 on the belief that every client deserves to be treated like the only client and that high-level public relations and strategic communications should be open to businesses of every size.

Past and present clients include General Dynamics C4 Systems, Trammell Crow Company, Atomic Comics, Best Western International, Full Circle Autowash, Raytheon Missile Systems, Microchip Technology and many more.

Prior to founding Open Door Communications, Len was General Manager of Airport Customer Service Communications at Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, Ga. Additionally, Len worked for Insight Enterprises in Tempe, Ariz., where he directed all facets of corporate communications for this $2 billion reseller of computers, hardware and software and was Manager of Communications at AlliedSignal Aerospace in Phoenix. Len’s background also includes five years of positions of increasing responsibility in communications at TRW Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., and jobs as an investor relations consultant, a magazine editor and a sports journalist.

Len is a member of both the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and served as president of IABC Phoenix in 2003-04. Len earned his accreditation from IABC in 2002, a designation achieved by less than 5 percent of the organization’s 13,000 members worldwide. He is an alumni of Valley Leadership, was named as one of the “Forty Under Forty” up-and-coming community leaders by The Phoenix Business Journal, and is an advisory board member for the American Lung Association of Arizona. Len is the author of Giving Time: Making A Difference in Your Community (Llumina Press, 2003) and is a longtime columnist and contributing writer for the Arizona Republic. His writing has also appeared in various publications including The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Ahwatukee Monthly and Raising Arizona Kids.

Len has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from San Jose State University and a master’s degree in English from Northern Arizona University. He lives in Phoenix with his wife, Leslie, and son Connor.