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Executive Suite: Steve Haweeli, East Hampton

Steve Haweeli says he has done it all

Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Steve Haweeli says he has done it all in the restaurant business and this helps his public relations clients. He sees the future in mobile phones and tablets. (Nov. 4, 2011)

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'I had a PR firm before I knew what public relations was," says Steve Haweeli, president of WordHampton Public Relations Inc. in East Hampton.

In his 20s, he had been working in Manhattan as a bartender and as a freelance writer when he was asked to write a news release for a restaurant. "What's that? Can you show me one?" he says he recalls asking.

Haweeli, now 57, caught...

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