Background
Elise Hughes offers more than thirty years of experience in both corporate and community
relations; non-profit organizational management; meeting planning and implementation;
executive entertainment; special events; public policy issues; grant and proposal research
and writing; food product promotions; lobbying materials; marketing; recruiting and
admissions for a state university’s new school of engineering; administration; staffing and
budgeting.

She is a trained Five-Star, Five-Diamond hotel concierge. A graduate of Leadership Metro
Richmond, Elise is a former president of both the Old Dominion Chapter of the Public
Relations Society of America and the Richmond Public Relations Association.

She is a former member of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass
Communications’ Advisory Board and is a certified Adult Literacy Tutor.

Elise recently fulfilled her dream of building a home on the water in lower Lancaster County.
YOUR EXPERT CONCIERGE
Managing the details of your river lifestyle