Jim Finkle
Managing Director
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Life at FGS Global
Advises clients on a wide variety of issues, reputation and crisis management, and special situations with a focus on technology, healthcare, education, financial services and cross border matters involving China.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Communications Director at Palo Alto Networks following a career covering cybersecurity, technology, business and finance, national security for media organizations including Reuters and Bloomberg.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Theater lover, fitness enthusiast, dog dad, meditation practitioner. Has lived and worked in New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Southern California, Tokyo, Taipei and Xian, China.
Jim Finkle is a Managing Director in the Boston office. He advises clients on a wide variety of areas – from issues management and special situations to crisis and cyber response. Areas of focus include technology, healthcare, education, financial services and cross border matters involving China.
Prior to joining FGS, he worked as Director of Communications with the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks. He also spent more than two decades working as a journalist with Reuters, Bloomberg News and other media organizations, covering issues from financial news to healthcare, technology, cybersecurity and national security. He held a variety of reporting and editing positions in New York, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco, Southern California, Tokyo and Taipei.
Jim has a Masters in East Asian Studies from Yale University and a B.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He spent 11 years living in Asia, where he became fluent in Mandarin.