About me

Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked in agency and in-house public relations, co-founded an Internet start-up (including raising angel and venture capital funding), and worked as a reporter and editor, including four years covering politics in Washington, D.C.

Prior to launching Jim Graham Public Relations in 2003, I worked as a senior strategist for a boutique PR firm in Silicon Valley, specializing in Internet and network security and peer-to-peer file sharing technologies.

From 2000 through 2002 I co-founded KickFire, a start-up promoting online collaboration for enterprise marketing teams. My responsibilities included helping raise angel and venture capital funding ($300,000 and $6 million, respectively). As director of communications, I successfully positioned the company as a leader in Marketing Resource Management (a term I coined and which became the industry-accepted designation for Web-based enterprise marketing management collaboration applications.) I still believe it’s a great idea, but the bursting Internet bubble proved otherwise.

Prior to KickFire, I was a director at The Benjamin Group, a Silicon Valley high-tech PR agency. My specialty was launching Internet start-ups, but I also managed a million dollar PR program for Amdahl and coordinated programs for Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Aptex Software (now Fair Isaac), Adante (now Genesys) and Ramco Systems, handling its mid-tier ERP offering.

Before joining The Benjamin Group, I headed up media operations for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space (now Lockheed Martin Space Systems), overseeing military and civilian space programs, managing PR for previously classified programs including Corona photoreconnaissance satellites and the stealth ship Sea Shadow. I joined Lockheed after four years in Washington, D.C. covering Congress, NASA, the Pentagon and international space programs for McGraw Hill and Pasha Publications (now King Publishing).

My areas of expertise include peer-to-peer file sharing technologies, online intellectual property monitoring and enforcement, online collaboration, GPS, military and aerospace technologies and global water issues. It goes without saying that I have extensive contacts among technology reporters and the analyst community. I’ve managed crisis communications efforts, provide executive media training, work on employee communications and helped companies with legislative relations.

I reserve a quarter of my time for community service. I manage PR for Felton FLOW, support a local affordable housing project, and help community groups on water issues.  When I’m not doing PR, I geocache, play guitar poorly (rockabilly, juke joint, surf), and record a cooking podcast (on hiatus) with my wife. I served as the volunteer head of media operations for Burning Man for seven years and am a 12-year veteran of the event, still serving as the Santa Cruz regional coordinator. I'm co-owner of Desert Dingo Racing, campaigning a Class 11 VW in the SCORE Interrnational Baja desert races.

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