- Jan Hopkins
Jan Hopkins was the anchor of the daily CNN Financial News show "Street Sweep" from the New York Stock Exchange. [http://admission.case.edu/admissions/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=329&strBack=%2Fadmissions%2Fnews%2Fnews_archive.asp] Hopkins now runs her own strategic communications and marketing company.
While a member of the
Girl Scouts of the USA , she earned the Curved Bar, a Girl Scout Gold Award predecessor. After graduating fromHiram College , Hopkins went toPrague with theAmerican Friends Service Committee . While she was there, Soviet tanks rolled in, ending the "Prague Spring ". She pursued a master’s degree in American Studies and Communication atCase Western Reserve University . She began her 30-year career in journalism during that time, working as an intern on a late-night interview talk show. As her career in radio and television continued, she managed to complete a one-year fellowship at Columbia Business School and focused on business journalism.She worked for
CBS , ABC andCNN before joining Citibank as managing director of client communications. Hopkins left Citigroup Private Bank in 2005 to open her own firm, the Jan Hopkins Group, in New York. It is a strategic communications and marketing company specializing in deepening relationships with high-net-worth clients. The company also provides media coaching and video production services.External links
* [http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/observer/archive/04-02-06/stories/Head04.html Hopkins speaks at Case]
* [http://www.thejanhopkinsgroup.com/ The Jan Hopkins Group website]
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