Jim Finkle

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.