In 1976, he relocated to San Francisco to help reopen an international PR firm’s office and, until 1982, he served in both agency and corporate communications positions before establishing a communications consulting firm that operated for more than 25 years before its merger into an international public relations firm. In 2009, he cut his employment agreement in half and established Kalt Communications to serve a limited clientele on a highly selective base.
In 2004, The Wall Street Journal published his op-ed article on "The Ultimate Insiders", an overview of how the stock exchanges detect insider trading violations. In 2003, The National Investor Relations Institute published his article on "Consultants + IROs A Working Relationship for You?", a guide for investor relations and chief financial officers. He has addressed corporate and business groups on subjects ranging from "7 Winning Strategies for Marketing the Small Cap Company", to "Public Relations: Where Irresistible Forces Meet Immovable Objects". Howard also conducts teach-ins for client employee groups on the subjects of material and confidential information, disclosure pitfalls and insider trading.
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Howard is a Journalism graduate of University of Wisconsin; former instructor in Financial Communications and Investor Relations in Golden Gate University's Graduate School and in Basic Public Relations at the University of California--Berkeley Extension. He is former president of the Chicago Association of Business Communicators and of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Lung Association.