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Originally from California’s Silicon Valley, Jack is technology enthusiast. Although his job experience began as a hardware technician at Hewlett Packard, he quickly realized he enjoyed people over products. What followed was a professional public relations career starting with a San Francisco-based agency that specialized in an eclectic mix of clients from comedy clubs and Hollywood movies, to ski associations and national truck stop operators—oh yeah!

Fast forward 25+ years and his PR skillset now includes promoting small start ups, private and public companies, government, technology, higher education and non-profit work. While he has experienced firsthand the roller-coaster ride of “going public” via an IPO at a telecommunications company, he also spent years working work at several independent and national technology PR agencies, after which he launched his own consulting business during the meltdown of the dot-com industry in the early 2000s.

Jack earned a liberal arts degree from De Anza Community College in Cupertino, Calif., a bachelor of arts in communication from Brigham Young University and an MBA from George Fox University. He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and taught classes as an adjunct professor at Portland State University School for more than 10 years.

Over the years he has been a speaker at various conferences, a syndicated video podcaster and blogger. His interests include conversations about the future of AI technology in our lives and he has yearned for years to make a national tour and write a book about it. His hobbies include any activity involving a Frisbee®, mountain bike riding and pretty much all racquet sports. He is now learning paddle boarding and kayaking. He also enjoys gardening, dreaming about creating a drone photography side-hustle, traveling and discussing the benefits of and existential threat of AI. He also likes fish–both to watch and eat.