JOHN MCCARTNEY, APR
Principal
JMAC PR

John McCartney, APR, is the Principal at Jmac PR and has more than 20+ years of experience between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York leading PR and social media campaigns for technology, advertising, marketing, and media brands.

John launched Jmac PR in 2020 and the agency provides effective PR and marketing communications to help tomorrow’s leading brands achieve business-building objectives today. John’s reputation in the PR community is second to none. Clients know what he and Jmac PR bring to the table, and have confidence in knowing they will always get a good return on investment.

Prior to moving to Los Angeles in 2020, John lived and worked in San Francisco from 2013 to 2019. While in San Francisco, John immersed himself in the PR community by teaching a PR 101 class at General Assembly, serving as a PR mentor to several Silicon Valley tech accelerators, and also served on the PRSA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Board of Directors, and served as President in 2019. John also serves as an advisor with Women Who Code, the global nonprofit dedicated to inspiring women to succeed in tech careers.

Before San Francisco, John spent most of his journey in New York. John’s career in PR started in 1998. He would then work at a number of tech-focused PR agencies including Middleberg & Associates.  John had one in-house role and that was at Wenner Media where he led the PR efforts for Men’s Journal, and was on the PR team for US Weekly.

John has garnered accolades from places like Business Insider for their annual PR 50 list of the Best PR Professionals in Tech to Hot Topics Top 100 list of the Best Tech PR Agency Executives in the World. John has also published his guest columns in outlets like the Bulldog Reporter, PR Daily, and PR Newser.

John attended the City College of New York and studied Journalism. He earned his Accreditation in Public Relations in March 2023.

John currently lives in Los Angeles, where his hobbies include volunteering, traveling, exploring new places, hiking, attending music shows, and discovering new restaurants and cocktail bars. His preferred go-to cocktail is the Vieux Carre.  You can connect with John on Linkedin, or follow him on Twitter at @johnny_mac or learn more at  www.jmacpr.com.