Jack McArtney, “True North in a Horizontal Era,” March 14, 2019
Jack McArtney is a pioneer in the mobile phone industry, with over three decades of strategic marketing, business development, network operations, public policy, and philanthropic expertise in telecommunications products and services, digital entertainment, online safety, and media literacy.
A New Jersey native and 1982 graduate of Saint Francis, Jack has managed the integrated network, product, and business development functions for: Verizon Wireless, Verizon Communications, Bell Atlantic Mobile, and AT&T AMPS. He helped design and launch the first mobile networks in the United States, SMS text messaging, built developer programs for mobile app services, and developed Verizon’s Content Standards for all of Verizon’s consumer and enterprise digital media and advertising businesses.
Jack now manages an advisory and consulting business, mcartney group, that focuses on brand reputation and product responsibility in social media, digital media, media literacy, with clients in threat management, security, privacy, healthcare, education law enforcement, and wireless and broadband telecom operators. Tonight, Jack returns to his alma mater to share his insights on the ethical dilemmas that inevitably arise in our current age of rapid technological development.