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John Franklin has over fifteen years of experience advising clients on building and managing strategic communications programs for a wide variety of organizations and industries including technology, manufacturing, financial services, health care, media, fashion and aerospace.  Though a generalist, he has particularly deep experience in crisis and litigation support for major global brands, marketing strategy and digital communications.  Mr. Franklin currently oversees AMG’s day-to-day work for PepsiCo and also consults regularly with HP, CEMEX and Yahoo! 

During nearly ten years at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery, an agency specializing in crisis work, Mr. Franklin advised clients including Northwest Airlines, Commerce Bank, Morgan Stanley, United Healthcare, AC Nielsen, Diageo, Brera Capital, Union Pacific Resources, Pfizer, Sumitomo Corporation and Becton-Dickinson. 

Additionally, as Chief Marketing Officer for Catalyst Group Design, a web consulting firm, Mr. Franklin focused on online communications strategies relating to user-interface design, blogging and search-engine optimization for clients including Boeing, Hearst and JP Morgan Chase.  He has also been a consultant for GM, Nike, Unicef, Dell, Microsoft, Yahoo! and MySpace. 

Mr. Franklin has a B.A. from Princeton University, where he studied Medieval English and French Literature and received two prizes for his independent academic work.