A founding member of the firm who helped launch TrailRunner International as its first Managing Director in 2016, Jim leads TrailRunner’s Executive Committee as Chief Executive Officer responsible for all global operations. He draws on nearly 30 years of experience in journalism and corporate communications to advise clients on financial communications, corporate positioning, crisis communications, and special situations such as restructurings, M&A transactions, IPOs, and executive leadership changes. He has developed and implemented winning communications plans for public policy matters, regulatory actions and investigations, cyberattacks and data breaches, class action lawsuits, and labor and employment issues. 

Before TrailRunner, Jim served as SVP and Head of Media Relations for Citizens Financial Group. Earlier in his career, he worked for Comcast and for CVS Health in roles focused on corporate communications, crisis communications, public policy communications, reputation management, and consumer and B2B public relations. A former political, legal affairs and breaking news reporter for The Denver Post, Jim was a member of the reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2000 and covered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as an embedded reporter. 

Jim has been awarded degrees from Union College (BA, English) and from the University of Colorado (MA, Journalism). He completed additional graduate coursework in literature at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. Jim lives in Olympic Valley, Calif., with his wife and their two teenaged children.