James W. Goldman is a highly accomplished media executive and business pioneer. Prior to launching Bighawk LLC, a new media firm specializing in the funding and leveraging of technology ventures, Goldman achieved a successful 22-year career managing his own advertising and publishing companies.  

 

The founder and CEO of JWG Associates, Inc., Goldman started the firm at the age of 22 and grew the agency to $135 million, with 10 offices and more than 250 employees. Strategically servicing the niche market of human resource communications, JWG won over 30 major advertising and design awards prior to being acquired in 2001 by TMP Worldwide, Inc., the world’s leading supplier of human capital solutions (including the well known Internet recruiting portal Monster.com.) 

 

In 1996, Goldman founded Editorial Urbano Publishing to serve the emerging post-NAFTA Mexican business and Internet markets.  Headquartered in Mexico City, Editorial Urbano included three widely-read city/business journals when it was acquired by Crain Communications, Inc. in 2001. 

 

Today, Goldman remains actively engaged in developing and managing new business ventures. Goldman is a  graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, School of Management, with a specialization in marketing, is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), UJA and AIPAC, and splits his time between his homes in New York City and Shelter Island, NY.