Jim Wills Email & Phone Number

Jim brings to each WCA engagement more than 30 years of executive search success across the corporate communications, public relations, investor relations, and public affairs spectrum. He combines this with the perspective gained from a pre-search career in corporate communications (McKesson), agency public relations (Burson-Marsteller and predecessors to Hill & Knowlton and Ogilvy PR), and management consulting (Booz Allen & Hamilton)—in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City.He personally leads every engagement the firm undertakes.Clients have included Alexion Pharmaceuticals, APCO Worldwide, Apple Inc., Bank of America, Battelle Memorial Institute, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Burson-Marsteller, Clairol, Converse, CreditSuisse, Deloitte & Touche, Dominion Resources, Edison Electric Institute, Frito-Lay, Fortune Magazine, The McGraw-Hill Companies, GlaxoSmithKline, General Electric, IBM Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan & Co., Ketchum Public Relations, KPMG, Lenovo Group, MasterCard International, Merck & Co., The New York Stock Exchange, and Washington (DC) Hospital Center/MedStar Health. Many of these have been multi-engagement clients.In addition to his search work, Jim's consulting projects have included a landmark "Peer Group Best Practices Corporate Communications and Organizational Assessment" for a FORTUNE 50 client, corporate and agency "bench strength" audits, compensation studies, and agency and corporate talent pipeline development strategies. Jim is a graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of San Jose State University. He was also trained as a management consultant at Booz Allen (characterized by some as a "short-form MBA") and completed professional development courses at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (corporate finance) and Harvard Business School (Marketing).He resides with his family in Fairfield County, CT.

Listed skills include Corporate Communications, Management Consulting, Public Relations, Strategic Communications, and 44 others.