MFD on Comms

Alfred Uhry Alfred Fox Uhry is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Jason Kelly is the New York Bureau Chief of Bloomberg, overseeing more than 1,200 journalists at the company’s world headquarters. He is also the co-host of “Bloomberg Businessweek,” airing on Bloomberg Radio daily from 2pm-5pm ET and weekly on Bloomberg Television. He is the author of Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body, published by John Wiley & Sons.   Since joining Bloomberg in 2002, he’s written about topics ranging from semiconductors to economic development during the war in Afghanistan. A frequent contributor to Bloomberg TV and host of conferences around the world, Kelly also wrote The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry that Owns Everything (2012), the product of five years leading Bloomberg’s global private equity coverage.   Kelly is a graduate of Georgetown University and lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY with his wife and children.

Jim Wilkinson has done it all in comms.  He was deputy communications director in The White House, and was also chief of staff at the US Treasury Department during the financial crisis.  He was managing partner of Brunswick Group. He was Executive Vice President of PepsiCo and ran comms there globally.  He was head of global communications for Alibaba Group and helped run their historic IPO.  And now he has his own firm called TrailRunner International.  Jim’s seen it all and brings great perspective on the communications world today.