Ellen Langas

President and Founder

With more than 25 years of experience in the marketing communications industry, Ellen has successfully developed and managed public relations, advertising, media training, sales and marketing campaigns for national and regional clients.

Prior to founding NouSoma in 1995, Ellen was an officer of billion-dollar QVC, Inc. where she originated the Public Relations Department and gained national visibility as a popular on-air host and consumer spokesperson.

Ellen received her MBA from the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh and her Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Robert Morris University, summa cum laude. While at Robert Morris, she led the SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) team to the SIFE national championship. In 2006 she received the Robert Morris University Alumni Achievement Award.

In 1999, Ellen was named one of Philadelphia’s Women of Distinction and a Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council Women of Achievement honoree. She also received an Excellence Award from Working Woman magazine. She was named one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business and one of the Philadelphia business area's Outstanding 40 Under 40 in 1998. As Mrs. Pennsylvania 1994, Ellen represented Pennsylvania women, speaking on family and women's issues statewide, and she has spoken nationally at numerous consumer and business events. She also has been a marketing instructor at the Wharton Small Business Development Center at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Active in her community, Ellen volunteers and provides pro bono work for organizations including SIFE and Mommy’s Light Lives On Fund®, of which she is a board member. 

Ellen is the creator and author of the successful Girls Know How® book series. She is an accomplished commercial actress and voice-over artist, and has recorded more than 150 commercials, videos, infomercials and radio spots during her career. A native of Pittsburgh, Ellen resides in the Philadelphia suburbs with her teenage daughters…which explains why there is no list of fun things she does in her spare time. However, if she had spare time, she would play tennis, write, paint, play the piano and windsurf.

Dede Crough

Marketing Director

Dede Crough joined NouSoma Communications in January 1996 and was named Marketing Director a year later. Her public relations, marketing and communications experience encompasses a wide variety of businesses, including a national repertory theatre company, a screen printing/embroidery/promotional products company and a national cable television shopping channel in the Philadelphia area.

Clients benefit from her expertise in idea generation, writing with flair, desktop publishing, editing and proofreading. A skilled account manager, she develops and maintains comfortable and productive working relationships with clients, designers, vendors and members of the media.

She has held volunteer positions with City Theater Company of Wilmington, Delaware; Reins of Life therapeutic horseback riding in Landenberg, PA; and has served on the Board of Directors of Y2K9s Dog Sports Club in Wyndmoor, PA. She is a talented dog trainer who avidly supports pet rescue, has competed with her dogs in flyball, agility and disc dog, and is founder and captain of the Happily Evfur After Flyball Club.

Dede graduated cum laude from Middlebury College in 1985 with a B.A. in English, and lives in rural Chester County, PA, with three rescued Shetland sheepdogs and one rescued border collie mix.

Courtney Beddia

Marketing Coordinator

Courtney began her career with NouSoma as an intern and today handles a variety of marketing and administrative responsibilities, including managing the Girls Know How® marketing campaign and assisting with several other accounts. She attends West Chester University (WCU) and is scheduled to graduate in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in marketing with a dual minor in Spanish and international business.

She serves as Co-President for the American Marketing Association at WCU and is the Service Co-Chair of Circle K, a community service organization. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, reading and volunteering in her community.