Ruth Sarfaty, newly installed Vice President, Corporate Communications at AOL, Inc., spent the past three and a half years at Dan Klores Communications (DKC), where she was Partner in charge of the Entertainment/Consumer Products/Hospitality Group.

Before that, Ruth served as Vice President for Public Relations at Radio City Entertainment where she managed the PR for hundreds of events each year in addition to handling the PR around the acquisition of Radio City by Cablevision/Madison Square Garden in 1998. Ruth had served as Executive Vice President at DKC from 1992 to 1995, working on a wide range of accounts in television, business, academe, consumer products, the arts, and the not-for-profit sector.

Prior to that, she headed the PR department at Barnard College/Columbia University and held senior level positions at Caims & Associates and, for nearly a decade, at Howard J. Rubenstein Associates. Ruth holds a B.A. in French from Vassar College and an M.A. in Journalism from NYU. She resides in New Jersey with her husband and two teenage children.