Jake Wengroff

Jake Wengroff has worked in a variety of roles in the communications, marketing, and development fields. In 2021, they began working as an Account Manager at Technica Communications, where they manage the PR activities of several companies in the energy and cleantech industries. In 2022, they moved to Money Habitudes as a Marketing and Customer Success Lead, helping with PR, social media, email marketing, and outreach. In 2012, they founded JXB1 Social Business, a consulting firm to assist clients with various challenges related to content marketing, social media, public relations, and communications. In 2019, they launched the Technology Awards List to help PR and marketing folks at tech companies make sense of the world of awards. In 2013, they worked as a Senior Instructor and Content Developer (contract) at Mindojo. In 2016, they were a Social Media and Content Marketing Manager (contract) at Synapse, researching, developing, and publishing blog articles on the topics of corporate learning and development, instructional design, employer branding, and human capital management. Jake also worked as a Front End Developer and Marketing Manager (contract) at Oogababy. In 2011, they were a Tech Reporter at KMOX Infinity Broadcasting, covering the big stories from such companies as Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as such trends as wearables, IoT, commercial drones, driverless cars, emerging payment systems, security/fraud detection, crowdfunding, startups, and Net neutrality. In 2015, they were a Developer (contract) at Mix & Go, fixing small issues in the simple blog application and creating RSpec tests that passed. Lastly, in 2012, they were a Contributing Analyst at Gleanster, LLC, co-managing Gleanster's social media practice, designing, developing, and executing surveys for end-users of social technologies, and writing Gleansights and other research documents.

Jake Wengroff has a diverse educational background. Jake attended Brandeis University from 1988 to 1992, graduating with a BA in Comparative Literature. Jake then went on to earn an MBA in Finance from the University of Miami Herbert Business School between 1992 and 1994. In 2015, they completed a Rails Web Development course with Bloc. Jake also has several certifications, including a HootSuite Professional certification obtained in 2012, an Inbound Marketing Certification and Inbound Certification from HubSpot obtained in 2018, a Google Analytics Individual Qualification from Google obtained in 2018, an AdWords Search Certification from Google obtained in 2018, and another Inbound Certification from HubSpot obtained in 2016.