Jennifer McGuire

Jennifer McGuire, Senior Counselor

Jennifer McGuire joined Guthrie/Mayes in 2011 as a senior counselor and heads up the agency’s Lexington office. With more than 17 years of public relations and integrated brand marketing experience, her clients have included Proctor & Gamble, YUM! Brands, Star-Kist Tuna, VisitScotland, Dow Chemical, Marriott and the Trump Organization.

Previously an independent public relations consultant for five years, Jennifer managed public outreach and developed marketing copy and social media content for clients in the financial, travel, health care and fast food industries. Prior to branching out on her own, she led client accounts for agencies in New York, Atlanta and Cincinnati, and earlier in her career managed media relations for the New York City Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Jennifer has spearheaded product sampling events, press conferences, radio media tours, social media communications, third-party promotions, media relations at large trade shows, and international press trips. She has worked with several celebrities to grab the media spotlight for her clients, including Donald Trump, Jane Seymour, Dennis Quaid, Liza Minnelli and Rosa Parks. For her clients, she has earned coverage on CNN, Good Morning America, Today Show, The Colbert Report, and in The New York Times, USA Today and Newsweek, among others.

An accomplished writer, Jennifer ghost-wrote a brand strategy book in 2010 and has ghost-written articles for clients that have appeared in Forbes as well as several national trades and regional business journals.

She attended the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications for three years, and is a graduate of Baruch College in New York with a degree in Spanish corporate communications.