The Experts: Jay
Jay Devine
Partner
A founding partner, Jay is an experienced communications professional with 25 years of client service work including international, national and Washington, D.C. experience.
In 2006, Jay advised a group of Philadelphia business leaders in their successful acquisition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com. He continues that work today. With the help of D+P, The Inquirer has become one of the only major dailies in the U.S. to increase circulation while traffic to philly.com has doubled. In 2007, he launched the first Philadelphia Inquirer Sudoku National Championship.
Throughout his career, he has provided guidance and counsel to clients including Lincoln Financial Group, Independence Blue Cross, IBM, Sunoco Logistics and Firstrust Bank.
Until co-founding the firm, he was the general manager of Tierney Communications, where he had management responsibilities for Philadelphia’s largest public relations agency. He joined Tierney in 1989 as one of its founding members.
Jay is a graduate of Georgetown University. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Neumann College, a former president of the National Adoption Center’s board of directors, and a member of the Institutional Advancement Committee for Fox Chase Cancer Center.