Team
Jennifer YankSenior Vice President
Jennifer Yank is a senior vice president at Gladstone Place Partners where she advises companies on strategic communications matters related to investor relations, M&A and issues management. Jennifer has a decade of corporate communications experience following an earlier career as a broadcast journalist.
At Gladstone, Jennifer leads client teams across a broad range of mandates, including capital markets events, financial communications and activism defense campaigns. Recently, she supported Alaska Airlines in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines and she regularly advises clients such as IBM, Estée Lauder on investor and media relations. Jennifer also utilizes her background in journalism to help companies navigate matters with the press as well as coach clients for broadcast interviews.
Previously, Jennifer was a director at the boutique communications agency One Nine Three Group and a director at Brunswick Group, where she specialized in external communications for multinationals in the TMT, consumer and financial services sectors. In Brunswick’s Dallas and New York offices, she supported clients on issues management, corporate narrative development and high-profile transactions, including AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner in 2018.
Jennifer began her career in television news, most recently as a producer at CNBC. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.