Xanthus Communications Welcomes Risk Management Expert Jerry Gardner to its Client List

SEATTLE, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Xanthus Communications welcomes risk management expert Jerry Gardner to its roster. Jerry Gardner is the CEO of CompanionTree.com, a membership-based web community of people seeking platonic friendships with others who care about making genuine friends. Companion Tree is different from other social media or business networking sites such as Facebook, match.com or Linked-In because it is a place to make friends in an environment free of romantic or other expectations. Members of the Companion Tree community experience privacy due to its secure data governance policies.

Jerry Gardner has drawn upon his many years of experience as a risk manager to create Companion Tree as a safe, secure and private environment for people to make the type of friendships that develop and flourish over time. Its private database allows its members to connect based on their common interests, geography, backgrounds and groups. Under Jerry's facilitation and guidance, Companion Tree is free from advertising, spam, marketing, and games.

After observing countless people who just wanted to make friends, Jerry Gardner saw a need for a social media site that gives people the tools to simply make friends. According to Jerry, "I created Companion Tree specifically in response to the many people who have told me how difficult it can be to meet new people for friendships in a safe and secure environment, and who are not interested in dating or meeting others for romantic encounters."

Companion Tree is about real friendship and provides resources to people who are relocating to cities due to job or lifestyle changes, the newly divorced, widowed or separated, and to people seeking companions to share their expanding interests and hobbies.

Companion Tree is expanding in the US, Canada and the UK. For more information, please see http://www.companiontree.com.

About Xanthus Communications LLC

Founded by Patricia Vaccarino in 2003, Xanthus Communications is a Seattle-based PR firm. Xanthus offers the full range of public relations services integrated with technologically sophisticated channels of communication. For more information, scan http://www.xanthuscom.com. In 2007, Xanthus launched another website to house its individual clients who are all professionals in their respective fields. Please see http://www.prforpeople.com.

SOURCE Xanthus Communications