Since May of 2013, Jake has worked as an Account Executive with Gitenstein & Assadi Public Relations. He conducts daily market research, manages the speaker's bureau and finds new story opportunities for each of our clients. He has worked on numerous projects with Gitenstein & Assadi PR, most notably “The International State of the State” hosted by The Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations. He assisted with media preparation as well as contacting various local outlets for coverage of the event. Additionally, Jake handles media campaigns for Gimme Credit, a corporate bond research firm, and Mediant Communications, a provider of proxy services to both brokers and corporations. Jake maintains daily contact with media personnel both on the local scale and the national scale, ranging from The Arizona Republic and Phoenix Business Journal for Arizona angled stories to The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. Previously, Jake performed research for CCG Catalyst Group, a leader in bank consulting. Jake received his bachelor’s from Arizona State University in December 2013. He has a wide array of academic experience in the public relations field stemming from courses taken in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism as well as his major in Geographic Information Systems.