ExecutiveBiographies

Jay L. Kriegel’s consulting practice focuses on strategic communications with an emphasis on corporate, non-profit, and governmental public policy. 

He has worked on transactions, crisis situations, and projects for such corporations as Verizon, UPS, Pennzoil, Viacom, The Related Companies, and Paine Webber. On behalf of the New York Real Estate Board, he worked with City Hall to oppose Congressional action, threatened in 2006, that would have restricted New York City’s ability to use eminent domain for housing and major development projects.

As senior vice president of CBS Inc. (1988-1994), Mr. Kriegel led the broadcast industry’s efforts to create the innovative right of retransmission consent in the Cable Act of 1992, and in negotiations with Hollywood over the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (Fin/Syn). With his own consulting firm (1984-1988), he mounted a national campaign on behalf of the New York business and real estate communities, to save the deductibility of state and local taxes in the 1985-86 Tax Reform Legislation.

Working for Prime Minister Tansu Ciller of Turkey (1994-1997), he coordinated communications in the U.S. and Western Europe on such priority issues as the EU Customs Union, the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, and human rights.  From 1997-1999, he provided support for democratization programs for President Narsultan Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan, including coordinating world-wide communications. From 1997-2005, he ran New York City’s national and international campaigns to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Mr. Kriegel, who was co-founder and publisher of The American Lawyer magazine, was chief of staff/special counsel to former New York Mayor John Lindsay from 1966-1973.  
Mr. Kriegel serves on the boards of Prep for Prep, Wildcat Service, The After School Corporation, New Visions for Public Schools, the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), the President’s Council of Cooper Union, the Advisory Board of the NYU Center for Global Affairs, and the MoMA Marketing Committee.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.