ExecutiveBiographies

James T. MacGregor, a co-founder of AMG, became a managing partner in 1985, president in 2000, and vice chairman in 2006.  Today, he advises clients across a broad spectrum of the firm's client base, primarily in crisis management and in the strategic planning stages of transaction and investor relations assignments.

Mr. MacGregor has advised clients on more than 200 mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, initial public offerings and other transactions, and on a comparable number of corporate crisis situations.  These include investigations, prosecutions and regulatory sanctions; employee, customer and shareholder litigation; product failures and recalls; proxy contests and issues of corporate governance; bankruptcies and reorganizations; management replacements and transitions; and a broad range of issues related to a corporation’s dealings with its investors.  He works most frequently with clients in the financial services, technology and industrial sectors.  He often consults  with boards of directors and committees of independent directors.

Mr. MacGregor writes periodic articles and client letters on the theory and practice of corporate communications, recently including What Every Director Should Know about Investor Relations and How to Use, Abuse and Confuse the News Media.  He is the author of two published books of non-fiction, and speaks frequently on crisis communications topics.

Prior to the formation of The Abernathy MacGregor Group, Mr. MacGregor was a vice president of American Broadcasting Companies, where he spent ten years in various financial and communications positions.  Earlier, he spent six years as a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, and two years as an assistant to the president of CBS Inc.

Mr. MacGregor studied economics at Princeton University and marketing at the graduate school of management of Case Western Reserve University.  He is chairman of the board of Location One, an experimental arts organization, and Earth Force, an environmental service learning organization, and is vice chairman of the Daily Princetonian Publishing Company.