Jeff
Zelkowitz

Jeff Zelkowitz is a communicator and strategic thinker who works with corporate leaders at extraordinary times of change for their industries and inflection points for their organizations. Jeff turns business strategy into effective messaging and communications strategies and leads and inspires teams to tell compelling stories that resonate with financial markets and media, customers, employees, policymakers and other stakeholders, influencers and the public. He brings a strategic communications lens to helping client organizations succeed and grow their leadership in financial services, technology, sustainability, transformation, economic development, and environmental and societal issues.

Leadership for me means bringing my authenticity, creativity, perseverance, integrity, even humor, to help clients and colleagues unleash their full potential.

Jeff is a Executive Director and global lead financial sector subject matter expert in APCO’s New York office. He has advised on corporate transformation projects for banks, multinationals and public sector clients; communications for financial services and fintech firms and digital assets, and advised on sustainability, decarbonization and governance issues in various sectors. He is an expert on financial communication, M&A transactions, spin-offs, restructuring, activism, as well as situations involving antitrust and assertive public policy scrutiny. He advised one of the largest ever sovereign debt restructurings as well as the largest ever public sector and corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history.

Jeff joined APCO in 2006 and has been reinventing himself ever since. As a consultant, Jeff solves client challenges. As an executive coach, he helps clients and colleagues come up with their own insights and solutions for overcoming obstacles and upping their game; and create chemistry with executives and employees who may be coming from a very different place. He was previously managing director at an investor relations and financial communications firm in New York and London. He graduated from Brandeis University magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in History and earned his Master of Arts from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.