Jim Jonas | Q&A
Jim Jonas is a founding partner of Peak Creative Media and is the firm's lead client services director. Jim has twenty years experience producing effective multi-media communications campaigns and projects for a wide variety of corporate, nonprofit and political clients. His background in politics and public affairs includes managing successful congressional campaigns in his native North Carolina, writing and producing award-winning political media for consulting legend Roger Ailes, and overseeing the communications for Lamar Alexander's early campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in the '96 cycle. In addition to the corporate and non-profit communications and creative services projects he manages at Peak, Jim continues to work with a variety of public affairs campaigns and causes in Colorado and across the country including serving as a founding director of Unity08.com, an effort to forge a unity presidential ticket in 2008.
He holds a BA in Political Science from Guilford College and a MPS in Political Management from the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University. He has won numerous creative recognitions and awards including several "Pollies" for his political work, an International "Gold Quill" for a groundbreaking corporate intranet product he developed, and he was named a "Rising Star" by Campaigns & Elections magazine in 1996.
Active in local civic affairs, Jim currently serves on the Board of Directors for Four Mile Historic Park and the Denver Venture School, a charter-public high school expected to open doors to its first students in August 2008.
He and his family live in Denver.
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Hometown: Charlotte, NC
Education: Guilford College (Greensboro, NC) – AB – Political Science; Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University – MPS – Political Management
Peak Office: Denver
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Favorite movies: "Anchorman," "Patton," "GoodFellas," "Blazing Saddles"
Favorite TV shows: "Curb," "Entourage," "Sopranos," "Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels," whatever is on the History Channel
Perfect Saturday: 18 holes, Carolina v. Duke basketball game on the tube (Carolina wins), backyard BBQ (flown-in western NC-style, ‘natch)
Life away from Peak: Live in central Denver with wife of ten years, two kids (7 & 4), two big dogs (both too big for a central Denver yard).