Jon Drummond

Current

• Senior Manager, Corporate Public Relations at Discover Financial Services (Discover Card)

Past

• Vice President at Hill & Knowlton, Public Relations
• Senior Editor at Britannica.com
• 20-year journalist at daily newspapers

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Education

• Marquette University

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Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Jon Drummond’s Summary

Currently the senior manager for Corporate Public Relations at Discover Financial Services (Discover Card)

Jon Drummond’s Specialties:

Media relations, crisis counseling, corporate affairs, issues management

Jon Drummond’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Corporate Public Relations

  Discover Financial Services (Discover Card)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DFS; Financial Services industry)

  October 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for protecting and enhancing the corporate reputation of Discover Financial Services (DFS), an independent publicly traded company and issuer of the Discover Credit Card. I handle crisis media relations, coordinate executive visibility programs and oversee PR efforts associated with Discover Business Card and the monthly Small Business Watch indicator of economic confidence for the nation's 22 million small businesses.

• Vice President

  Hill & Knowlton, Public Relations

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  May 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 6 months)

  Specialize in media relations, crisis and labor communications, media training. Clients included Pella Windows, ComEd, University of Illinois, Wal-Mart, Benjamin Moore, Marriott, Illinois Department of Transportation.

• Senior Editor

  Britannica.com

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  Senior editor overseeing teams of editors for Britannica.com, the Internet learning magazine portal counterpart to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

• 20-year journalist

  daily newspapers

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  June 1981 — June 2001 (20 years 1 month)

  20-year career as newspaper journalist in California, Illinois and Wisconsin. Former reporter, copy editor, wire editor, assistant city editor, city editor and assistant managing editor. Newspapers include The Daily Register (Portage, WI), The Herald News (Joliet, IL), The Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI), The Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) and The News Sun (Waukegan, IL)

Jon Drummond’s Education

• Marquette University

  B.A., Journalism, 1977 — 1981