Jay Berkman is our fearless Chief Rainmaker, and is widely-recognized for his passionate curiousity. While overseeing client engagements, he embraces adversity by leveraging a 20+ year track record for successfully identifying game-changing technologies and posturing innovative products/services. Jay embodies our slogan "we connect the tag line to the bottom line." A former public company CEO and a serial entrepreneur who has traversed corporate boardrooms and start-up cubicles, Jay provides our client/partners with a unique combination of sage business insight, due-diligence skills, door-opening prowess and deal-closing talents. His stand-out, "madmen-style" brand positioning and marcom footprints can be found on a broad spectrum of enterprises; from major corporations to market-disrupting start-ups within financial services, technology, consumer products, media, and theme-entertainment sectors. No "shrinking violet", Jay is a recognized thought-leader, a contributor to major publications, author of numerous research studies and white papers, and a widely-followed blogger.   Testimonials "..If there was a Madmen ETF, your company would represent the biggest weighting! You are the Marketing EVP In-A-Box! " A. McOrmond, WallachBeth Capital "Great job!" M.Fisher, CEO, MBF Clearing Corp. "..Your insight is uncanny..Hard to determine which talent is your best,corporate sales, marketing, strategic partnerships, editorial skills, or PR/Media--but we recommend you for any/all!" Mark Murphy, Founder/CEO Leadership IQ    "JLC Group and the firm's principal brought momentum to Helium Systems.  We hired him for his experience and honest feedback, but his unrelenting work ethic pushed the company to a whole new level.  He came up to speed very quickly, worked hard to improve the company, and used his extensive network of contacts masterfully." Alex Malone, Founder/CEO Helium Systems, Inc. "..Your B2B selling approach, creative skills putting together our media kits, and e-commerce knowledge has not only dramatically increased our sales, but has created long-lasting relationships with new accounts. We can't thank you enough for your custom-tailored solutions!" Mark Gough, Wrighthouse Group  Exclusive N.A. Manufacturer/Distributor Pablo Picasso Premium Merchandise “Jay is great at generating the buzz and opening doors. He thinks outside the box and can come up with creative ways to communicate the message to the right people. No C-Level executive can escape Jay’s persistence” Sunil Ippagunta, Founder/CEO KeyID "You have opened more doors to key-decision makers in 3 months than our entire business development team had accomplished in almost a full year. Simply incredible, totally invaluable..Thank you!.." K. Faciane, Chief Operating Office, WalkUp Systems, LLC

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