Our Team

Cecilia Russo Turner

In 2008, Cecilia Russo Turner founded Cecilia Russo Marketing, LLC to help businesses and organizations increase their visibility locally, nationally, and globally through reputation management and fundraising strategies.

Throughout her 25-year career, Cecilia has managed and participated in philanthropic activities, raising millions of dollars for nonprofit charities and civic improvements in communities throughout Savannah and the Lowcountry and Southeast region of our State. CRM provided strategic direction, public relations, and major gift solicitation for the most successful campaign ever held by the Veterans Council of Chatham County: the World War II Memorial, ‘A World Apart,’ erected on historic West River Street and dedicated in November 2010.

Additionally, Cecilia has enjoyed a successful and strong list of small business and corporate clients while also serving as a fundraising consultant and advisor for organizations such as Tour de Georgia, Susan G. Komen Savannah Race for the Cure®, Leadership Southeast Georgia, SAFE Shelter, Inc., American Red Cross of Southeast and Coastal Georgia, Benedictine Military School, Savannah Technical College, and America’s Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia. Cecilia was a co-founder of Savannah’s Fashion Night Out through Vogue’s Conde Nast in 2013.

She was recognized as the Volunteer of the Year by Junior Achievement of Savannah in 2013 and named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Savannah Chamber of Commerce in 2018. She is a 2016 graduate of Leadership Southeast Georgia and a proud alumna of St. Vincent’s Academy and the University of Georgia.

Cecilia’s civic volunteer efforts include board positions on the United Way of the Coastal Empire, Rotary Club of Savannah, Horizons Savannah, and the Savannah Technical College Foundation. Previously, Cecilia actively served on the boards of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire and Senior Citizens, Inc and Kiwanis Club of Skidaway Island. She is married to Bob Turner and they have five grandchildren.

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Cynthia Cradduck

Cynthia Cradduck is the Managing Partner at Cecilia Russo Marketing, where she oversees business development, manages the staff, and coordinates reputation management strategies for clients, media relations, and online SEO public relations. For more than three years she has served as the executive administrator to Leadership Southeast Georgia.

Cynthia is a graduate of Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor’s in Communications focusing on Public Relations and L.E.A.P. certified, as a PR professional in Leadership, Experience in Communication, Academics, and Professionalism training. Cynthia has also received a certification from the Dale Carnegie LIVE online training program, Getting Results Without Authority, and a graduate of the Savannah Speechcraft for Professional Women course sponsored by Toastmasters International.

In 2018, Cynthia received national recognition as a 40-Under-40 leader by Georgia Trend Magazine and was named a Rising Star in Business by Savannah Magazine and Savannah Morning News in 2017. Previously, she served as Vice President of the Georgia Jaycees for two consecutive years, as well as President of the Savannah Jaycees, which celebrated their 75th-anniversary during her leadership.

Currently, Cynthia serves as a Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador and supports several nonprofit organizations including the Ronald McDonald House of the Coastal Empire, One Love Animal Rescue, the Fresh Air Home on Tybee Island, and her church of Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church. She is married to Aaron Cradduck and they have a son, Emerson.

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Tara Nobles

Tara Nobles is the Creative Director of Cecilia Russo Marketing and brings over 15 years of hands-on experience in the areas of communications, marketing, design, and fundraising. Tara is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and relocated to Savannah in 2002 to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Media and Performing Arts. She is currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. After undergraduate internships with Walt Disney World and the Savannah Music Festival, Tara began her career in radio, entertaining listeners for years as an on-air personality. The majority of her career was spent in the nonprofit sector in a variety of roles at Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia. Then, in the corporate sector, she held the position of Marketing and Public Relations Manager at the Savannah Convention Center. In addition to her professional experience, Tara takes great pride in her community volunteerism as a member of the United Way of the Coastal Empire’s Young Leaders Executive Committee, the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and co-leader of Girl Scout Troop #30107. Tara is married to Savannah native Barr Nobles. The two have three senior dogs and spend their weekends performing together in a local band.

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Skylar Lanier

Skylar Lanier is a public relations specialist with Cecilia Russo Marketing, where she coordinates communications, media and print collateral to build strong relationships between local businesses, nonprofits and the community. She has returned to her hometown of Savannah, Ga., after completing a master’s degree in contemporary literature at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where she was an editor for the FORUM Postgraduate Journal. Previously, Skylar graduated from the University of Georgia Honors Program with bachelor’s degrees in public relations and English and a minor in Spanish. In addition to undergraduate internships with The Georgia Review and South Magazine, Skylar held leadership roles with the Thomas Lay After-School Program in which she was responsible for coordinating mentors, running a kid’s cooking club and raising awareness among UGA students to maintain a steady base of volunteers.

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“I engaged Cecilia and her team very soon after we launched our business. I needed the word out that I was in a new place and reinforcement/broadcast of my brand. I learned to just be quiet and trust their methods and direction. Four years in, our work is consistently, positively covered in the press, on a monthly basis.”

Brian Felder, Felder & Associates