Entrepreneur, businessman, rancher, and globally recognized strategic thought leader.
Jack Martin is an entrepreneur, businessman, rancher, and globally recognized strategic thought leader. He is best known for his behind-the-scenes advice to C-suite executives, navigating them through their most challenging communications and corporate issues. Jack’s counsel has been sought for decades by some of the largest companies in the world, leading effective crisis communications, forging mergers and acquisitions strategies, and successfully defusing hostile takeover attempts.
Jack is the CEO and President of JPM Company and the former Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hill+Knowlton Strategies. PR News 2013 inducted Martin into its Hall of Fame as a pioneer who has “helped to shape the world of public affairs consulting, public relations, and corporate consulting for more than 25 years.” Martin previously served as chairman of Public Strategies Inc., a public affairs consulting firm he founded after rising to prominence managing campaigns as a top adviser to US Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Long active in state and national politics and policy, Martin has served on the Board of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, which supports the LBJ Presidential Library and LBJ School of Public Affairs. As a community leader, he has also served on the Board of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and as Chairman of the Texas State University System’s Board of Regents.
In November 2023, Jack will be inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. The Texas Business Hall of Fame honors the accomplishments and contributions of outstanding leaders in the state by celebrating and telling their stories. He was nominated for this honor due to his significant business contributions and philanthropic and civic engagement in his local communities.
Jack serves as Chairman of the Board of Baylor Scott and White Health, Texas's most extensive not-for-profit healthcare system and one of the largest in the United States, with 48 hospitals and over 40,000 employees. Jack previously served on the Baylor Scott White College of Medicine board and was a member of the MD Anderson Cancer Institute Board of Visitors.