Jeff Pundyk has joined Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips as Senior Advisor.

Jeff counsels B2B companies on their content strategy and investments while serving as a Senior Fellow at The Conference Board, a leading non-profit think tank that conducts research on the global economy.

He has spent his professional life helping blue-chip organizations strengthen and expand business relationships by creating and sharing provocative, timely knowledge. This notably includes roles as Publisher of The McKinsey Quarterly and as Senior Vice President at The Economist.

At McKinsey & Company, he spent 10 years guiding the firm’s flagship publication, The McKinsey Quarterly, and related specialty publications.

Subsequently, at The Economist he led a global team that developed distinctive content for Global 500 companies.

Most recently, he was Chief Strategy Officer and Editorial Director at Techonomy Media, a leading community of business and technology thought-leaders, until the sale of the firm in December 2018.

Jeff started his career writing obituaries at a daily newspaper in New Jersey. After years as a reporter and editor there, he segued to B2B tech publishing, where he was one of the early professionals to take up the Internet as a publishing platform. He was the founding editor of TechWeb in the early ‘90s.

Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips is an investment bank for clients that operate at the intersection of content, technology and services. This includes enterprises operating within the media, advertising & marketing, education, healthcare, information services and technology sectors. Over 23 years, clients have included Advance Publications/Condé Nast, Deutsche Börse Group, Elsevier, Hachette, JP Morgan Partners, Microsoft, The New York Times, Time Inc., TPG and Wasserstein & Co., among others. The firm is the TMT practice co-head and industry specialist in Oaklins, the world’s largest and most successful M&A advisory organization in the mid-market, with over 800 investment banking professionals in 45 countries.

At Oaklins, we are passionate about M&A. It’s what we do, every day. We give nothing but our very best to do justice to the extraordinary effort our clients put into their businesses. Our partnership with our clients works because we both believe in never settling until we deliver excellence. Coming from every corner of the world and with a diverse range of backgrounds, together we are one global team. The world’s most experienced advisor on mid-market deals.

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