Jan Hopkins Group

The Jan Hopkins Group is a communications consulting firm. JHG helps executives develop critical communications skills for more effective presentations and to better prepare for media interviews. JHG also helps executives develop critical communications strategies. In addition, JHG provides moderators and speakers for companies and conferences. And JHG creates customized programs and videos designed to help companies and non profits connect more effectively with high-net-worth clients. Jan Hopkins is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist and former anchor & correspondent at CNN with two decades of experience in business news and network television production. At the end of 2007, Jan became the President of Economic Club of New York, the first woman to fill this post. Economic Club of New York is one of the nation's oldest and preeminent speaker's platforms for major global business, financial and political figures. She covered Wall Street from the bull market to the crash in the 1980s and the business world from dot com boom to bust in the 90s. She has interviewed guests from heads of state to heads of companies to shareholders, workers and men and women on the street. Prior to CNN she worked for ABC World News Tonight, CBS network television news, plus for radio and television stations in Ohio. She is also a former Managing Director and Head of Client Communications at Citigroup Private Bank where she developed strategy and programs to communicate Citigroup's best ideas to high-net-worth clients around the world. In 2005 she founded The Jan Hopkins Group, a communications and media strategy consulting company that specializes in connecting clients more effectively with their audience and offers media training and video production services. The Jan Hopkins Group has worked with a national non-profit to connect with potential leaders for a major capital campaign; with the chief executive of a hedge fund on media strategy; and produced a video for a pharmaceutical company shareholder's meeting. Jan Hopkins serves on the Advisory Board of the Knight Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University School of Journalism. As a Bagehot Fellow she studied at Columbia University School of Business. She is a former member of the board of Girl Scouts USA and of the board of trustees at Hiram College. Jan is a former director of Bostwick Laboratories and was a member of the nominating and governance committee. In 2009, Jan Hopkins joined the board of Franklin Templeton Mutual Shares. She is a member of the nominating committee. Lesley Geary is a 24-year TV news veteran. Specializing in producing long form television pieces, Geary reported business for Nightly Business Report on PBS for more than 10 years, was CNBC's first female bureau chief, and contributed more than 100 pieces to Movers and Business Unusual at CNN. Bill Kavanagh has over twenty-five years experience in documentary and nonfiction media as well as theatrical and live event production. His company, Kavanagh Productions Inc. is a collaborator with the Jan Hopkins Group. Kavanagh's documentaries have been awarded two Ford Foundation grants and have been shown throughout Americas His broadcast directing skills are coupled with an ability to elicit fascinating interviews, both public and personal. He's also directed event coverage of Tiger Woods, and with public figures Al Gore and Bill Clinton. In the corporate world, and he has produced industry award-winning corporate work for his clients including the CEOs of Merrill Lynch, American Express and New York Life Insurance and Soros Fund Management. Agi Clark's advertising career spans 25 years, two thirds of it spent at N.W. Ayer going from Art Director/writer to Executive Creative Director. She then became Chairman, Chief Creative Officer at Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein. She spearheaded countless prestigious accounts such a

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