Shelley Mansholt is an accomplished public relations professional representing an eclectic mix of small and large companies and entreprenuers while employed at PR firms, ad agencies and the hotel/resort-entertainment industry.

Shelley was born and raised in the Midwest-Illinois and was educated at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and SIU-Carbondale.  She launched her PR career at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. 

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and opening her own boutique PR consulting company, she was employed as a long-time PR executive by MGM Grand, Inc. and MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM), a Fortune 500 company and world's leading resort-hotel-entertainment-gaming operator.  

As a top company PR executive on the Las Vegas Strip with MGM, she served as VP of Corporate Communications for MGM MIRAGE, Asst. VP PR for MGM Grand, Inc. where she lead the PR efforts for MGM Grand Hotel-Casino, New York-New York and Primm Valley Resorts, and Asst. VP of Entertainment PR & Marketing for MGM Grand. 

Shelley has worked at some of the top Advertising & PR firms in Nevada- formerly Carrara Group and DRGM - servicing high-profie clients MGM Grand Inc., Associated General Contractors, Fog City Diner, Lawry's The Prime Rib, Bruegger's Bagels franchise, to name a few. 

Snapshot of PR career projects + clients Shelley has proudly represented:

Gaming-Resort-Hotel-Corporate:

• PR Consultant for MGM Grand, Inc. (NYSE: MGG)

• PR Spokesperson for MGM Grand Hotel & Casino

• PR Spokesperson for MGM MIRAGE

• New York-New York Hotel & Casino Groundbreaking Event, featuring former NYC Mayor Ed Koch

• Master Plan Reinvention of MGM Grand Hotel & Casino as “The City of Entertainment”

• Exclusive Mansion at MGM Grand for high-rollers and celebrities

• PR for MGM MIRAGE Charitable Voice Foundation and Diversity Initiative

• During MGM PR career worked with many of today’s top Las Vegas Strip gaming-hotel operators, including:  Terry Lanni, Jim Murren, Alex Yemenidjian, Daniel Wade, Bill Hornbuckle, Cindy Kiser-Murphey, Gamal Aziz, Bill McBeath, Felix Rappaport

Entertainment & Venues:

• Drink Las Vegas Nightclub launch for famed nightclub operators Michael Morton & Scott DeGraff

• MGM's Movie Premiere starring John Travolta and Celebrity After Party

• MGM Publicist & Spokesperson for Barbra Streisand's New Year’s Eve Millennium Concert

• Studio 54 Nightclub at MGM Grand

• Elvis Presley Official Auction from Archives of Graceland, with Elvis Presley Enterprises & Guernsey's of New York

• PR for MGM Grand Garden Arena Concerts and Special Events

• PR for Stomp, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance

• PR for celebrity performers at MGM's 750-seat Hollywood Theatre, including Tom Jones, Rodney Dangerfield, Wayne Newton, Sir George Martin, Carrot Top, and many others

• FOX Billboard Music Awards & ESPN's ESPY Awards at MGM Grand

• La Femme Production Show direct from Paris’ original Crazy Horse Show
• "EFX" $100 million Production Shows at MGM Grand, starring David Cassidy, Tommy Tune, Rick Springfield

Culinary-Food-Restaurants:

• Drink! And Eat, Too

• Fog City Diner Restaurant, by Real Restaurants

• Lawry’s The Prime Rib

• Charlie Trotter’s first Las Vegas restaurant at MGM Grand

• The Brown Derby

• Emeril’s New Orleans Fishhouse

• MGM Grand Hotel Food & Beverage

• Michael Mina’s NOBHILL and PEARL and BOURBON STEAK SCOTTSDALE Restaurants

Other PR:

• Nevada Partners, Inc, a non-profit

• Grand Opening of Nevada Partners Boxing Gym with boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard & referee Richard Steele

• $25 Million MGM Grand-Bally’s Private Monorail Grand Opening

• MGM Grand Airlines Launch

• Martin-Harris Construction

• Associated General Contractors