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President

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Jim is the President of Paymar Communications Group, a leading edge media training, presentation training and consulting firm based in New York. Corporate clients enlist Paymar Communications Group to enhance the media and presentation skills of their executives, develop key messaging and elevate the public profile of their company on Wall Street and Main Street. Jim is well known for his work as a Business Correspondent for CNBC, Senior Financial Anchor at BusinessWeek and the ABC Radio Networks, General Manager of KCNS-TV in San Francisco and Editorial Director at KNTV in San Jose. He also has vast experience in the New York media having served as a television anchor and correspondent at WABC, WNBC, WCBS and FOX. Paymar has also served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at PepsiCo in New York and Executive Vice President and Director of Communications at ICIC in Boston. Paymar Communications Group also specializes in Reputation Management Services, assisting companies in recasting their image. Media and presentation training clients include: Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, ING, Wells Fargo Bank, McGraw Hill, Arch Coal, Standard Chartered, Barclays Global Investors, RBS, the Wall Street Journal and Standard & Poor's. He has also trained executives at: PepsiCo, General Electric, American Express, Allstate, Pfizer, Time Inc., Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, AOL, eBay, Glaxo Smith Kline, Abbot Labs, Bausch & Lomb, Novartis, BNP Paribas, ING, Reuters, FTSE, UBS, ADVO, and the Globe.com.