Ed James is a highly skilled branding and communications professional with twenty years of experience across multiple disciplines including lifestyle, entertainment, luxury goods, business-to-business, technology, non-profit and crisis management. In 2014, James created branding communications company CHQ Media. With an emphasis on lifestyle and music, CHQ crafts and implements brand and communications strategies for traditional, social and digital media channels. Through CHQ, James has developed ongoing consulting agreements with global marketing and public relations firms including Anthemic, Hopscotch, Brand Hotel, G7 Marketing (part of Project: Worldwide), Clyne Media and The Pitching Staff. High-profile clients and projects include Toyota, Save The Music, NAMM, AllianceBernstein, Broadway Dreams, Bowers & Wilkins, Guitar Center, The John Lennon Bus, AJ Capital, FLOOD Magazine, Littman and Ernie Ball Previously, James created and served as president of Cornerstone Public Relations, an extension of New York City-based lifestyle marketing company Cornerstone. In that capacity, he worked on projects for HBO, Pepsi, Microsoft, Diageo, Turner Broadcasting, Mountain Dew, Guitar Center, BitTorrent, TDK, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Converse, Reader’s Digest, Red Stripe, Bushmills, Nike, Jose Cuervo, Crown Royal, The FADER, Kia, Threadless, 2K, Levi’s, Activision and Adult Swim.James is a regular editorial contributor to trade publications offering his perspective on best practices and the state of the industry. Named one of the industry’s “40 Most Influential” by Folio Magazine, James has also been profiled in PR Week and PRSA, nominated several times as Executive of the Year by PR News, and awarded Bulldog Reporter’s Silver Medal for PR Professional of the Year.